Mark Whitfield

Something for the (long) weekend: I See Hawks in LA/Great Willow “Radio Keeps Me on the Ground”

May 7, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s a wrap from us for this week dear reader. Enjoy your “stay at home” VE Day celebrations if you’re doing anything, remembering of course that we don’t have to live on the borrowed symbolism […]

Blitzen Trapper return with new album “Holy Smokes Future Jokes”

May 7, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

We’re fans here at AUK of Portland, OR-based “competent” Blitzen Trapper (that’s what it says on their Twitter feed) and they’ve announced they will be making their Yep Roc Records debut with the release of new […]

Drive-By Truckers sing quarantine song together – Watch

May 4, 2020 Mark Whitfield 1

There have been a lot of songs played in isolation over recent weeks, many of them of course via our dear little mini-gig series (which we often schedule for 3.45 so the sun is over the […]

Something for the weekend: Woody Guthrie “This Land is Your Land”

May 1, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Happy May Day comrades – a day that we should celebrate this year of all years given the sacrifices so many frontline workers are making at the moment. Showing appreciation through clapping is cathartic and an […]

Songs for the apocalypse: The David Mayfield Parade “Blue Skies Again”

April 30, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Three years ago when I was in Nashville I ended up seeing a band called The David Mayfield Parade at a small venue called The Railsplitters which was one of those shows that you don’t necessarily […]