Jonathan Aird

Track Premiere: Sara Petite “Bringin’ Down The Neighbourhood”

February 28, 2023 Jonathan Aird 1

P.F. Sloan wrote, and Barry McGuire sang, “hate your next door neighbour but don’t forget to say grace” – and whilst that’s a fine skewering of hypocrisy we can’t help but wonder what he would have […]

Fruit Bats “It All Comes Back” – like riding a bike

February 27, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

So, when your smug friends tell you that there’s no great music being made any more, throw the new album from Fruit Bats in their lap (or…elsewhere…depending on just how smug they are being). You won’t […]

The Milk Carton Kids – new album announced

February 27, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Rejoice, rejoice – The Milk Carton Kids return with a new album, ‘I Only See The Moon‘, which will be released on May 19th via Far Cry Records in partnership with Thirty Tigers. It’s four years […]

Track Premiere: Justin Tipton “Don’t Let Me Sleep Alone”

February 27, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Justin Tipton’s music career could be said to have started at the age of three when he picked up a toy guitar and banged out a tune. A more truly significant moment may have been some […]

Tim Grimm “The Little In-Between” – this will just take a moment

February 24, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

‘The Little In-Between’ is the title track of Tim Grimms upcoming album release, which will hit the streets on April 14th. It’s something of a new direction for Grimm – still very much recognisable as folk influenced […]

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 […]

Articles by Jonathan Aird

Track Premiere: Sara Petite “Bringin’ Down The Neighbourhood”

Fruit Bats “It All Comes Back” – like riding a bike

The Milk Carton Kids – new album announced

Track Premiere: Justin Tipton “Don’t Let Me Sleep Alone”

Tim Grimm “The Little In-Between” – this will just take a moment

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

Alicia Blue “Country Desire”

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

LA band Big Trouble to release their debut album “On Elephant Hill”

Devyn Brinsfield “Dreamers and Losers”