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Jacob Thomas Jr. “Whiskey Roller Coaster” – Listen

October 13, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
Whiskey Roller Coaster is the first single from Jacob Thomas Jr.’s upcoming album “Electric Sex” which comes out in February next year, a rock-infused, alt-country journey that finds Thomas reflecting on his favorite vice. Thomas describes this first […]
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Jim White returns with waffles, triangles and Jesus!

October 13, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
And who doesn’t love waffles, polygons and kind men? Jim White will be releasing his new sixth solo studio album “Waffles, Triangles & Jesus” (which sounds like an episode title from the new Star Trek series) […]
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Wilco to reissue first two albums

October 12, 2017 Mark Whitfield 1
News from RS this afternoon on two absolute classics, Passenger Side still makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up and how many songs from this year can you say that about? (“Galway […]
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Gitta de Ridder “My Dear, Oh Boy, Oh Man” – Listen

October 12, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
Anglo-Dutch Gitta De Ridder has released her new single My Dear, Oh Boy, Oh Man; the first to be taken from the new album “For Everything A Season” which is due out in Spring 2018. The album is comprised […]
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Billy Bragg builds bridges not walls – new album out next month

October 12, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
Billy Bragg, currently in North America for the first leg of his ‘Bridges Not Walls’ tour, has released his new single Saffiyah Smiles which you can see the video to below.  The song is a rousing Hammond-drenched country soul shuffle […]

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Something for the weekend: Son Volt “If I Could”

July 17, 2026 1
Well that’s it from us for this week and we leave you dear reader with a new song from alt-country heroes/pioneers/stalwarts/choose your own noun Son Volt whose latest album Sound Signal Serenades was physically released on […]
Artwork for Bell White album "A sign in the weather"
Album Reviews

Bella White “A Sign In The Weather”

July 17, 2026 0
A strong third album from the rootsy Canadian “Appalachian” artist from New Orleans showing raw emotion and a degree of post-breakup positivity. As you listen to each song on Bella White’s new studio album you feel […]
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Jawdropped have a “Secret To Spare” and October dates

July 17, 2026 0
Jawdropped, a four-piece from Los Angeles, have announced their debut album, Secret To Spare, due 18th September via Transgressive Records / Canvasback. The band has also released the first single, Split Lip, along with a video […]

  • Something for the weekend: Son Volt “If I Could”
  • Bella White “A Sign In The Weather”
  • Jawdropped have a “Secret To Spare” and October dates
  • Classic Clips: Anna Tivel “Rodeo Queens” – She’s Speaking
  • Paperback Riders: Dennis McNally “A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead”
  • Bob Dylan announces 2026 UK tour
  • Hell in a Handcart: What about the Babel Fish?
  • The latest AUK Podcast now available featuring Paul Sexton
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  • John Jenkins: Excellent again Keith. Funny that Paul mention 'Dirk Powell' as i did a review for 'American Highways Magazine' of the…

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Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for

July 16, 2026 0
Nothing I Can’t Undo is such a deeply earnest, empathetic and personal album that captures exactly what a solo debut is supposed to be by introducing us, in full, to Taylor Bickett, a 20-something singer/songwriter from […]
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Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0
Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]
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Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations

July 7, 2026 1
Like the old sailors of yore, Hank Alrich sure knows how to spin a yarn, though I doubt his are made up or heavily stretched. They keep your attention. I would contentedly sit in an armchair […]

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Billy Bragg & Joe Henry, Union Chapel, London, 16th January 2017

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Serendipity – it happens all the time, that accidental crossing of life’s tentative threads that seem to indicate something significant when a connection is made. Travelling in London by train one inevitably comes into contact with […]
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Preview: Clare Sands UK tour starts tonight

November 3, 2023 0
‘Ghost on the Waves’ is the new macronic single from Cork-born, Belfast-based sixth-generation fiddler and contemporary folk singer, Clare Sands, which you can watch the new video for below. Clare, who recently performed at ‘El Cervantino,’ […]
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Katherine Priddy “Daybreaker” – winter chill morning

February 5, 2025 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 […]

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