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Lucinda Williams announces UK and Euro dates for 2024

June 15, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

Ahead of the release of her new album ‘Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart’ which comes out June 30th via Highway 20 Records/Thirty Tigers, Americana legend Lucinda Williams has announced a run of UK and […]

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Hiss Golden Messenger announce new album “Jump For Joy”

June 13, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

Grammy-nominated band Hiss Golden Messenger has announced the release of their highly anticipated new album ‘Jump for Joy’ which lands via Merge Records on August 25th. The first single ‘Nu-Grape’ bursts with buoyant verses and a […]

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Something for the weekend: Roger Waters “In the Flesh?” (Live)

June 9, 2023 Mark Whitfield 2

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader and we leave you this week in solidarity with Roger Waters who’s been labelled a racist by everyone from Keir “Not Jeremy Corbyn” Starmer to the […]

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Allison Russell announces new album “The Returner”

June 7, 2023 Mark Whitfield 1

4x GRAMMY-nominated singer, songwriter, poet, activist, and multi-instrumentalist Allison Russell has announced her new album ‘The Returner’ which will be released on September 8th 2023, via Fantasy Records, and you can whet your appetite for it […]

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Something for the weekend: Energy Orchard “Wasted”

June 2, 2023 Mark Whitfield 1

That’s it for another week from us dear reader and rather than leave you with something new for once, we’re playing out for the weekend with a track from the late Bap Kennedy’s old band Energy […]

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Interview: Mean Mary answers six of one and half a dozen of the other

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The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It’s not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with the […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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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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Video Premiere: Timothy Jaromir “River on the Rise”

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Beginning with delicate guitar-work, Timothy Jaromir slowly and gently draws us into this tale of the 1972 Mississippi Flood, which saw 700,000 people evacuated to escape the inundation.  The themes of migration and displacement in ‘River […]

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Awkward Family Portraits “Everything We’ve Done Up Until Now Except What We’ve Done Since ” (Holy Smokes Records, 2019)

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Awkward Family Portraits are a Glaswegian group in the fine tradition of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks and on the UK front, Chilli Willi and The Red Hot […]

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David Lewis “Among Friends” (Independent, 2020)

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David Lewis is less than prolific, having made 5 albums in 25 years which seems slow going by anyone’s standards. Only when you append his professional title does it make more sense; for Lewis is a […]

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