Mark Whitfield

Lucinda Williams and Drive By Truckers join Black Deer 2021 bill

October 9, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

2021 really can’t come soon enough. Our favourite music festival bar none Black Deer has just announced some new additions to an already fairly impressive line-up, including Lucinda Williams, Drive-By Truckers and Canadian cowboy Colter Wall. They’ve […]

Video: Fleet Foxes “Can I Believe You”

October 8, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Fleet Foxes have got a new album out ‘Shore’ which has been receiving some rather nice reviews and they’ve shared a new music video for a track from the record, ‘Can I Believe You.’ The visuals […]

The Mavericks band member “assaulted for speaking Spanish”

October 7, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

A member of Latin country-rock band The Mavericks has reported being assaulted over the weekend “for speaking Spanish.” Trumpet player Lorenzo Molina Ruiz described an assault that he and his friend Orlando Morales endured while at […]

Andrew Bird Christmas album covers John Prine, Handsomes and more

October 6, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Andrew Bird has just announced the release of ‘Hark!’, a brand new Christmas album out October 30th on Loma Vista Recordings. Building upon last year’s EP of the same name, the thirteen-song set delivers freshly recorded […]

Video: Bill Callahan and Bonnie “Prince” Billy “Blackness of the Night”

October 5, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Bill Callahan, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, and Iranian-American experimental musician and labelmates AZITA have released a lovely cover of Yusuf / Cat Stevens’ track ‘Blackness of the Night’, originally taken from his sophomore 1967 album ‘New Masters’. Cat Stevens […]