Jonathan Aird

Track Premiere: Sam Kogon “America”

October 31, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

Sam Kogon arrives with a timely song, which reminds us what all the upcoming excitement is all about – sure, you get freedom, but that comes with responsibilities and consequences “everybody has a right to vote […]

Other Brother Darryl “The ballad of Joni and Graham” – Laurel Canyon times

October 30, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

On this latest single from Other Brother Darryl we find ourselves in an interesting place as the seven piece Other Brother Darryl look back to a simpler time which is embodied, for them, in the love […]

Track Premiere: Carolyn Kendrick “Leela”

October 29, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

Carolyn Kendrick has been busy – and started early. Raised in Stockton, Calif., and Seguin, Texas, Kendrick began studying violin at age 4. She “found her place musically” in Berklee College of Music’s American roots program […]

Folk Roundup – Rakish, Hannah O’Brian and Grant Flick, Mairearad Green and Rachel Newton, River Drivers, Nuala Kennedy and Eamon O’ Leary, June Tabor & The Oysterband

October 28, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

Welcome – or should that be fáilte? – to another edition of the folk roundup column. You may notice that there is a bit of an Irish theme this time around, not planned ’tis just the […]

Gold Star “Fentanyl” – no good comes this way

October 28, 2024 Jonathan Aird 1

Marlon Rabenreither was born in Austria, but he is now LA based and has spent a decade recording as Gold Star. On albums such as ‘Big Blue’ and ‘Uppers and Downers’, Rabenreither’s lovelorn lyricism and languid melodic sensibility helped […]