KC Vines

BC Camplight, St Pancras Old Church, London. 20th April 2017

April 24, 2017 KC Vines 0

The church has a profound effect on some people. For BC Camplight it drove him to greet his audience with a handshake at the south porch as they left. Earlier I wasn’t too sure Camplight was an […]

Courtney Marie Andrews, In-Store Performance, Rough Trade West, London. 12th April 2017

April 13, 2017 KC Vines 0

A true unplugged set this evening. Wearing a short olive dress and perched confidently on the record shop front desk, Courtney Marie Andrews was charming the 25 strong audience with cuts from the new LP. Without […]

Holly MacVe + Will Stratton, St John on Bethnal Green, London E2 – 6th April 2017

April 11, 2017 KC Vines 0

Holly MacVe is 21. She grew up in Ireland, Yorkshire and Brighton yet she creates lonesome country songs hewn from the bedrock of Hank, Emmylou, Joni, Tammy and KD along with that of Lana Del Rey. A […]

Colin Hay, Union Chapel, Islington, London 4th April 2017

April 6, 2017 KC Vines 0

When a panel voted recently on the best Australian songs of the modern era, three of the top ten were penned by Scots. The Easybeats’ “Friday On My Mind” topped the list, co-written by George Young […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Features

A Review of the Year: My friend lives in an Ivory Tower, she’s Protected from Misery.

December 17, 2019 0

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Videos

Video Premiere: Teni Rane “Small Steps”

July 22, 2024 0

Be absorbed by the latest single from Teni Rane. ‘Small Steps’ is a song of resilience and self-belief, a quiet anthem for everyone who needs to value and love themselves a little more. Teni sings: “With […]

Album Reviews

Dexy “Sleeping Through Summer”

February 21, 2022 1

Dexy’s album works to expand the ever-changing Americana genre but achieves mixed results. Dexy’s latest album, ‘Sleeping Through Summer’, takes you back to the days of bar-room punk music inspired by early 70s Rolling Stones and […]

Articles by KC Vines

BC Camplight, St Pancras Old Church, London. 20th April 2017

Courtney Marie Andrews, In-Store Performance, Rough Trade West, London. 12th April 2017

Holly MacVe + Will Stratton, St John on Bethnal Green, London E2 – 6th April 2017

Colin Hay, Union Chapel, Islington, London 4th April 2017

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”