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Live Review: Julian Taylor + Shaun O’Reilly, Green Note, London, 5th February 2023

February 21, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Another chance to see Julian Taylor in London just a week after his first European appearance with a short set at Moth Club was too good an opportunity to pass on. A multiple Juno nominee, Julian […]

Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore “Borderland” – On the border

February 21, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

This we like, the song of course, but also this part of the story behind the release of this new single by Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore – ‘Borderland’ was recorded on the duo’s day […]

Bennett Wilson Poole “Waiting For The Wave To Break” – Don’t wait forever

February 20, 2023 Jonathan Aird 1

You know we hate using the term Beatle-esque, you know we do, you know we do, you know we do – but in this ever changing world that we live in sometimes it’s the only apposite […]

Benji Tranter “Songs To Make You Happy”

February 20, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Lo-fi bedroom debut has its moments. Benji Tranter is a Croydon based singer-songwriter originally from the Welsh borders who has had a couple of solo EPs to his name already but makes his full length debut […]

Track Premiere: Matt Charette & The Truer Sound “Going Down Swinging”

February 20, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Matt Charette was born and raised in Mashpee, at the foot of Cape Cod – “My mother’s a hair stylist and my dad’s a truckdriver,” he says. “My dad listened to a lot of John Prine […]

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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