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Wilco film new session in Utretch – Watch

November 29, 2016 Mark Whitfield 0

If you caught them on one of their dates here this month, why not pen a quick review for us and we’ll publish it for the masses. Pitchfork report: “Wilco has filmed a new “Take Away Show” […]

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Billy Bragg to publish new book on skiffle

November 29, 2016 Mark Whitfield 0

News from Uncut on americana’s resident poet laureate: “Billy Bragg has announced details of a new book, Roots, Radicals & Rockers: How Skiffle Changed The World. It’ll be published on June 1, 2017 by Faber. “Against […]

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Vote for your favourite stuff from 2016 and win some promos!

November 26, 2016 Mark Whitfield 0

It’s that time of year again when Christmas is round the corner and the creaking signs of post-capitalism eating itself are evident in every snow filled shop window dressed by George Osborne’s (RIP) living wage.  Let’s face […]

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Neil Young latest archives out Friday

November 23, 2016 Mark Whitfield 0

Although you may need to hot foot it over to the States for a copy – best go before the end of the year if you’re not white Caucasian.  Uncut reports: “Neil Young will reissue a fresh […]

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Amazon Music releases festive americana leaning playlist

November 22, 2016 Mark Whitfield 0

Like peanut butter and jelly, they were always destined to come together.  RS Country festively reports: “Trampled by Turtles might be getting ready to press pause while frontman Dave Simonett focuses on his solo project, Dead […]

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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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It was no surprise really that this last date of Barbara Manning’s first solo tour of the UK was sold out, given that tickets for the majority of her previous shows had been rarer than hens’ […]

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David Johansen was a man of many guises: lead singer for the glam-rockers The New York Dolls, lounge lizard in his Buster Poindexter act, the wisecracking Ghost of Christmas Past in the movie “Scrooged” and simply […]

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Ben Bedford “The Hermit’s Spyglass” (Cavalier Recordings, 2019)

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‘The Hermit’s Spyglass’ is the fifth studio album from Illinois songwriter Ben Bedford. Weighing in at just a second short of twenty-seven minutes this is an invitation to a sojourn with Bedford at a farmhouse (The […]

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