Jonathan Aird

Bandits On The Run “Let’s Go Below” – subterranean adventures

February 10, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Let’s just take a moment and reflect on the busy lives of Brooklyn’s Bandits On The Run, who made their first big mark with ‘Love in the Underground’ back in 2019 when it was featured on […]

Jim Basnight “Gotta Get Straight” – power pop kiss-off

February 7, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

A new song from prolific power popster Jim Basnight, it’s a hook heavy washing of the hands kind of song – it’s a first taste of the next album, as yet untitled, which should be out […]

Kassi Valazza “Weight Of The Wheel” – pressing down…

February 6, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

You’ll recall that 2023 was, pretty much, the year of Kassi Valazza, whose album ‘Knows Nothing‘ provided a slew of our favourite songs that year and whose live performances were amongst the very best of the […]

Phil Cook “Appalachia Borealis” – a gentle pause

February 5, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Good grief – how long has it been since we last featured the Americana UK Wednesday Afternoon Chill Out Zone With No Goddamn Lyrics (or the AUKWACOZWNGL as we like to call it)? We don’t know […]

Katherine Priddy “Daybreaker” – winter chill morning

February 5, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Katherine Priddy’s new single ‘Daybreaker‘ can be safely claimed as literate – it is, after all, her second collaboration with Simon Armitage, the Poet Laureate. It is a setting of a winter themed poem, this time […]