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Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves “Sunnyside” – a jig, by god, and what a jig

June 21, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Here it is, Wednesday again and we have a splendid instrumental to tempt your ears with – today’s example of that genre is the appropriate enough ‘Sunnyside’ taken from the new EP ‘Hurricane Clarice: Outtakes, Vol.1‘ […]

Dream Team Triple Header: Lambchop, Booker T Jones, Karine Polwart

June 21, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Now, you’re right, we normally only dip into the magical world of fantasy concerts as suggested by incongruously paired or tripled artists names in those oh so regular Songkick emails once a month. These are the […]

Track Premiere: The Clements Brothers “Morning Train”

June 21, 2023 Jonathan Aird 1

George and Charles Clements have a special card to play in the acoustic folk sibling stakes – when they are harmonising it’s the sound of identical twins that can be heard. The New England duo are […]

Ida Mae “My Whispers Are Wildfire”

June 20, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Ida Mae have a new studio album, their third, called ‘Thunder Above You‘ which is set for release on August 25th. ‘My Whispers Are Wildfire’ is the latest single taken form it and is in their characteristic […]

Fust “Trouble” – constant companion

June 20, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

For Fust – a six-piece band from Durham, North Carolina consisting of Aaron Dowdy, Oliver Child-Lanning, Frank Meadows, Justin Morris, Avery Sullivan, and John Wallace – ‘Trouble‘ is less their middle name and more an awkward […]

Something for the weekend: Teenage Fanclub “There Was You”

August 21, 2026 1

Well that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you dear reader with a new song from Teenage Fanclub who will release their new album Do Not Dare To Dream on 9th October via […]

Alicia Blue “Country Desire”

August 21, 2026 0

A confident debut that shows the Nashville-based singer-songwriter has a vigour that sets her apart from the crowd. For singer-songwriter Alicia Blue, Waylon Jennings isn’t so much an influence as someone she calls “a creative angel […]

Classic Clips: Michael Hurley “Rhinefarm Session” – Vineyard at Gundlach Bundschu, 2015

August 21, 2026 0

Michael Hurley died last year, and wasn’t it starting to look like he wasn’t the dying kind? Every now and then someone goes, and it’s only then that you realise what you’d been hoping for: that […]

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