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Surprise! New Dawes live album out now – Listen

February 16, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Kind of a better surprise too than some of the nastier ones we’ve had in recent months. Paste report: “Dawes are a band that have largely built their reputation as road warriors, with shows that give […]

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New Robyn Hitchcock album due April – Listen

February 15, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

The legendary (and we use that word frugally) Robyn Hitchcock will release his new record on the Yep Roc label on 21st April. The 21st studio recording (spookily) and first-ever eponymous release of the British artist’s four-decade career, […]

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Hurray for the Riff Raff announce UK dates, new album

February 15, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Hurray for the Riff Raff’s new album “The Navigator” comes out on March 1oth on ATO Records, with Alynda Segarra “telling an interwoven, cinematic story of a wandering soul at a crossroads of identity and ancestral […]

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Hear entire new Ryan Adams album “Prisoner” courtesy of NPR

February 14, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Ryan Adams has a new album out later this week (which he believes will be better than his Whiskeytown output which he now describes as “pretty terrible”) and if you can’t wait until Friday, you can […]

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Willard Grant Conspiracy’s Robert Fisher dies

February 14, 2017 Mark Whitfield 4

Very sad news today from Loose – Willard Grant Conspiracy were one of those iconic bands of americana who were a mesmerising band to see live. You can hear my personal favourite track from them below, taken […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

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From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

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Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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Wolf & Moon Follow up the release of their second full-length album, ‘Follow the Signs’, with this cleverly-produced new video.  The visual beauty matches the lush sound of the duo’s ‘dream-folk’ sonic soundscape.  The Berlin-based pair […]

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Will Hoge sets out his American Dream – October

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Rolling Stone are reporting this morning that Nashville americana artist Will Hoge has announced a politically-charged new album called ‘My American Dream’, a collection of eight songs that touches on social issues including immigration and the […]

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Video: David Luning “Driftin'”

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From his album Restless, out now, a properly hooky bit of rock’n’roll from David Luning.

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