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[ June 12, 2026 ] Something for the weekend: Starpainter “I Found a River” Videos
[ June 12, 2026 ] Kris Drever “Doing This For Love” Album Reviews
[ June 12, 2026 ] Classic Clips: Jesse Colin Young “Darkness Darkness” – All Star Jam, Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey, 1984 Classic Clips
[ June 12, 2026 ] Kiefer Sutherland “Grey” Album Reviews
[ June 12, 2026 ] Live Review: Aldous Harding + Vera Ellen, The Barbican, London – 31st May 2026 Live Reviews

Lucy Kitchen “In The Low Light”

February 27, 2026 Helen Jones 0

Born from a personal tragedy, an album which seeks to not just explore grief, but also inspire healing in its wake. When it came to composing for her new album In The Low Light, British singer-songwriter […]

Marlene Oak “Welcome To Oak Land”

December 3, 2025 Helen Jones 0

A difficult and emotional subject is expressed with the kind of beauty and hopefulness that only someone who has lived it can convey. It’s fair to say the past decade has brought some challenges for Swedish […]

Gillain Wwelch @ Jazz Fest, New Orleans, 29 April 2007

For the Sake of the Song: Gillian Welch “Everything Is Free”

November 24, 2025 Helen Jones 2

It’s hard to remember now, but there was a time in the early-00s when music piracy was the hot topic. At the turn of the millennium, Metallica member Lars Ulrich famously took the free file-sharing service […]

Jim Keller “End of the World”

October 30, 2025 Helen Jones 1

Soul-infused rock with slick musicianship that conveys a timely message of hope. The world may be ending, but singer-songwriter Jim Keller is pretty OK with the whole thing; that’s if the title track from his seventh […]

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Something for the weekend: Starpainter “I Found a River”

June 12, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week and we leave you dear reader with a new video for a new song by Alberta-based sextet Starpainter which YES I KNOW we ran last week, but Jon […]

artwork for Kris Drever album "Doing This For Love"

Kris Drever “Doing This For Love”

June 12, 2026 2

Meditations on the unglamorous, but with melodic hooks, from Scottish folk-award winner Anyone coming to this album for their first experience of Kris Drever may well be expecting something fairly traditional in light of his many […]

Cover art for Jesse Colin Young album "Light Shine"

Classic Clips: Jesse Colin Young “Darkness Darkness” – All Star Jam, Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey, 1984

June 12, 2026 0

Jesse Colin Young passed away just over a year ago, on the 16th of March, at the age of eighty-three. Born Perry Miller and raised in Queens, New York, to musical parents, Young initially found fame […]

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