Andrew Raw

Good Looks “Lived Here For A While”

June 3, 2024 Andrew Raw 2

Post-punk indie with compelling lyrics. This is Good Looks’ second album after their debut ‘Bummer Year’, released in 2022. The quartet, from Austin Texas, are playing post-punk indie with an eighties vibe after having more of an […]

Essentials: The Top Ten Laura Cantrell Songs

May 30, 2024 Andrew Raw 6

Nashville-born Laura Cantrell moved to New York to study English at Columbia University. There, her great interest in music blossomed although she was initially involved in indie rock with the band Bricks rather than the country […]

Album cover artwork for 'Time and Place' by The Little Lord Street Band

The Little Lord Street Band “Time and Place”

May 23, 2024 Andrew Raw 0

Impressive melodic Aussie mainstream americana with reflective lyrics and darkness at times. The Little Lord Street Band, from Perth in Western Australia, consists of partners Natasha Shanks and James Rogers, with a rhythm section of Michael Savage on […]

Album cover artwork for the album 'Meet The Lostines' by The Lostines

The Lostines “Meet The Lostines”

April 26, 2024 Andrew Raw 0

A wonderfully vibrant New Orleans brew of country, soul, gospel and swamp. The Lostines are singer-songwriters Casey Jane Reece-Kaigler and Camille Wind Weatherford. Both come originally from the Pacific Northwest and met when they relocated to New Orleans. […]

Slow Parade “Maybe You’ll Come Around, Again”

April 12, 2024 Andrew Raw 0

Laid-back americana with a nice groove and engaging words. Slow Parade is songwriter Matthew Pendrick aided and abetted by friends from his home city of Atlanta, Georgia, who met during his decade as part of the […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Album Reviews

Talia Rose “Carry It Closely”

August 7, 2024 0

Classy, jazzy debut warrants full attention. Born and raised in Boston, in 2016 Talia Rose relocated to study jazz at New York University. It was a move that would lead to a Master’s in Jazz Performance […]

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AmericanA to Z – Viper Central

October 24, 2019 1

Starting out as a Bluegrass band, Vancouver’s Viper Central have seen some changes over the years – in line-up and in musical direction. A constant since the band formed in 2007 is the main songwriter, fiddle […]

Tracks

A year down the Tracks

December 22, 2025 0

What does a year in the Tracks really mean? On the one hand running the Tracks feature (and we’re sweeping up all other new music Tracks under that banner) means that there will be a lot […]

Articles by Andrew Raw

Good Looks “Lived Here For A While”

Essentials: The Top Ten Laura Cantrell Songs

The Little Lord Street Band “Time and Place”

The Lostines “Meet The Lostines”

Slow Parade “Maybe You’ll Come Around, Again”

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”