Sebastian Reyes Turner

Ernie Palmer “A Teacher, a Preacher & a Bad Farmer”

June 5, 2025 Sebastian Reyes Turner 1

Memories and tales of a veteran songwriter. Ernie Palmer is a seventy-six-year-old retired schoolteacher from Cartersville, Georgia, who enjoys travelling and spending time with his family. Below this surface level, there are many interesting facts pertinent […]

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Florry “Sounds Like…”

May 23, 2025 Sebastian Reyes Turner 0

An album to fan the flames of the rock and roll tradition. A versatile band like Florry can be many different things, free by acknowledging their debt to iconic groups like The Band or the Rolling […]

artwork for Mark Mulholland album "Fighting With Your Shadow"

Mark Mulholland “Fighting With Your Shadow”

May 9, 2025 Sebastian Reyes Turner 0

Unflagging optimism pervades the tales of a wandering musician. There’s something instantly appealing about the life of an artist who travels the world as they slowly build their body of work. A profusion of examples can […]

artwork for Steph Cameron's album "Blood Moon"

Steph Cameron “Blood Moon”

April 25, 2025 Sebastian Reyes Turner 0

Communion between past and present is found through nature. The current musical landscape is so incredibly vast that it can be overwhelming at times. Internet, rather than providing a platform for talented unknown artists to reach […]

artwork for Eric Schmitt's album "Wait for the Night"

Eric Schmitt “Wait for the Night”

April 9, 2025 Sebastian Reyes Turner 0

A collection of everyday stories with a poetic slant out of Baton Rouge. Eric Schmitt’s interest in music was sparked at a young age and consolidated through diverse influences. However, it wasn’t until years later that […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Album Reviews

The Bygones “The Bygones”

April 30, 2024 0

An exceptional debut. The Bygones’ debut is an astonishing and almost flawless album. Joshua Lee Turner and Alison Young became aware of each other when Turner played on a Simon and Garfunkel tribute tour. At the […]

Album Reviews

Erin Durant “Islands” (Keeled Scales, 2019)

July 29, 2019 0

Erin Durant takes her craft seriously. On the road, if a venue doesn’t have her instrument of choice, then she brings her 232-pound piano with her. With this revelation in mind, would this be the first […]

Album Reviews

Hannah Rose Platt “Deathbed Confessions”

May 16, 2023 0

Platt establishes herself as the consummate storyteller with an album of poetic ghost stories full of pulp noir and macabre mystery. On this her third album, though first for her new label ‘Xtra Mile Recordings’, ‘Deathbed Confessions’ […]

Articles by Sebastian Reyes Turner

Ernie Palmer “A Teacher, a Preacher & a Bad Farmer”

Florry “Sounds Like…”

Mark Mulholland “Fighting With Your Shadow”

Steph Cameron “Blood Moon”

Eric Schmitt “Wait for the Night”

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”