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Small Venue Heroes: The Handsome Family

January 25, 2022 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

If there ever was a band that could be described as the essence of modern Americana, it is Chicago’s The Handsome Family. The husband and wife duo of Brett and Rennie Sparks, with an occasional cast […]

Kieran Ridge & The Moonrakers “Kieran Ridge & The Moonrakers”

January 20, 2022 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

Kieran Ridge & The Moonrakers come up with an album that fits the term americana really well. Since the term americana came into use there were always questions posed about what that genre as such encompasses […]

Ewan McFarlane “Always Everlong”

December 9, 2021 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

On his solo debut ‘Always Everlong,’ Ewan McFarlane comes up with some assured, rocking Americana. There seems to be an ongoing questioning, the ‘chicken/egg’ style one, whether Americana is part of rock and roll or vice […]

Darragh O’Dea “Tilly And The Postmaster”

November 5, 2021 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

On ‘Tilly And The Postmaster’ Darragh O’Dea comes up with some excellent storytelling. If you could narrow down three characteristics that would qualify certain music as Americana, no matter where it came from, what would they […]

Tanya Ransom “Breakdown To Breakthrough”

November 4, 2021 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

Tanya Ransom’s ‘Breakdown To Breakthrough’ is a good showcase of quality Americana coming from Australia. The fact that Americana music, or Americana-style music, if you will, has become a worldwide phenomenon is no big news anymore. […]

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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 […]

Videos

Video: The Americans “No Fun”

July 9, 2020 0

The Americans certainly look like they’re having plenty of fun here while performing their version of ‘No Fun’ by The Stooges. It’s up-tempo, foot-tapping, headbanging stuff and the Los Angeles rock and rollers bring the song […]

Tracks

Mike Nisbet “Red Hot New York” – Listen

October 20, 2020 0

A new song from Oban’s Mike Nesbit – now calling London his hometown. ‘Red Hot New York’ is taken from his new album, his third, which is called ‘I Was A Great Lake, Once‘ and is […]

News

Paul Kelly to release new album “Fever Longing Still”

August 1, 2024 2

The Australian roots legend Paul Kelly has announced the release of his new album, “Fever Longing Still” on 1st November 2024. It is his first of new original material since 2018’s “Nature”. The album’s title comes […]

Articles by Ljubinko Zivkovic

Small Venue Heroes: The Handsome Family

Kieran Ridge & The Moonrakers “Kieran Ridge & The Moonrakers”

Ewan McFarlane “Always Everlong”

Darragh O’Dea “Tilly And The Postmaster”

Tanya Ransom “Breakdown To Breakthrough”

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”