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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 […]

Liv Wade “Slow Motion” – you can stop on a dime

October 22, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

Toronto would like it known that it has a new talent to talk about, Liv Wade is a queer, two-spirit artist with Metis and Scandinavian roots, Liv’s family originally came from the Red River Metis Nation, […]

Lucinda Williams “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” – Beatles go Americana

October 21, 2024 Jonathan Aird 3

We love it when something just pops up somewhat unexpectedly – and this take on the all-time number 2 Beatles song on the office iPod by Lucinda Williams is both unexpected and epically good. It’s taken […]

Moonshine Brigade “Storm” – not all that is done is gesture only

October 21, 2024 Jonathan Aird 1

When faced with the disaster-level impact of a Hurricane like Helene there are a couple of things one can do. Maybe you could tell lies about the disaster relief available in a cynical self-aid your own […]

artwork for Michael McDermott album "Flowers From The Graveyard"

Michael McDermott “Flowers From The Graveyard”

August 19, 2026 1

Anthemic songs of hard times and hope amidst the 99%. Now well into his sixth decade, Michael McDermott keeps on producing records of quality from his home city of Chicago. The eagerly awaited Flowers From The […]

Film of “Hadestown: The Musical” gets limited release in October

August 19, 2026 0

Hadestown, the musical co-written by Anais Mitchell and Rachel Chavkin, has earned many accolades, including eight Tony Awards in 2019, including Best Musical, and the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album. But if you […]

Sequoia “So Long”

August 19, 2026 0

Honest, world-weary songs of love, grief, and longing. This is Sequoia’s (aka Sequoia Feinson) second album. After a peripatetic youth, he eventually settled in rural Virginia, where he spent many of his formative years. A subsequent […]

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