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Hardwicke Circus “Cumbria Pizza”

January 14, 2025 Andy Short 0
Unplugged live performance from the Pizza Express. Hardwicke Circus return after their well-received album “Fly the Flag” with a live recording at London’s up-and-coming venue, the Pizza Express in Holborn. It captures a rousing night where […]
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Without Willow “Sink My Teeth” – it’s called self-defence

January 14, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Without Willow are a singer-songwriter duo who lean towards the folkier end of Americana.  This new song  features the intricate guitar playing of Simon McCafferty and the haunting, heartfelt vocals of Karen Kelly.  Without Willow hail […]
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Video: Jerry Douglas “The Fifth Season”

January 14, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0
This performance from Dobro-legend Jerry Douglas is simply stunning.  “The Fifth Season” is an epic piece of music that moves through several phases, each utterly absorbing and full of emotion and atmosphere.  Douglas is accompanied by […]
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January 13, 2025 Dean Nardi 0
It’s probably the same anywhere in the world. Even though, your first exposure to popular music most likely came from the radio, you come to love local music, the bands and the clubs. Being born and […]
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Ty Walker and the Humanoids “Home on the Strange”

January 13, 2025 Guy Lincoln 0
Aliens come to rescue Earth with ‘Cosmic Twang’ – we remain in peril. Musicians and Space right, it’s been a thing since popular music emerged from the primordial swamp. Familiar are the artists who situate themselves […]

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Something for the weekend: Lambchop featuring Justin Vernon “Weakened”

May 8, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you dear reader with a brand new track from Kurt Wagner’s Lambchop outfit who have announced details of their new album Punching The Clown which […]
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Cut Throat Finches “High Horse”

May 8, 2026 0
The first great, breezy, summer “pop” record is here, from a self-described “Americanish” band with an old-country soul. Much like their previous efforts, High Horse, by Cowtown’s Cut Throat Finches, defies easy categorisation. Is it a […]
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Zoh Amba to tour Europe and UK in autumn 2026

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Zoh Amba, who previously announced their Matador debut album, Eyes Full, which is out on 5th June 2026, has shared details of a run of UK and European tour dates. The European leg kicks off on […]

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Interview: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan discusses “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

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Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]
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Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

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Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

April 27, 2026 0
David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]

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Live Review: The Milk Carton Kids + Jenny Owen Youngs, The Barbican, London – 19th January 2024

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Five years to the day, Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale returned to The Barbican’s main hall, with their latest album ‘Only See the Moon’ which has garnered the kind of reviews that The Milk Carton Kids […]
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Dirty Dozen: Little Mammoths

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Little Mammoths are a London-based Rock’n’Roll Bar Band formed in 2014, that continue charging down the vein of The Hold Steady, Drive-by Truckers and Wilco. Their 2016 debut  ‘Phantom Dreams’ prompted Texan legend Ray Wylie Hubbard […]
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Having explored her family roots on 2014’s acclaimed Keep A Fire Ottawa’s Amanda Rheaume moves into a more mainstream sound on Holding Patterns. With producer Jim Bryson (of Weakerthans and Kathleen Edwards fame) on board the […]

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