Steven Howlett

Nicholas Altobelli “Vertigo” (Dalton Records, 2019)

August 22, 2019 Steven Howlett 0

“My name Nicholas. I write sad songs”. It’s an honest salutation written by the man himself on his Bandcamp page. And if first impressions stick, it seems to be the light in which Altobelli feels comfortable […]

Karen Jonas “Lucky, Revisited” (Independent, 2019)

August 5, 2019 Steven Howlett 0

“Hang on to your hats boys”… and so begins the first bit of advice from Karen Jonas at the start of ‘Ophelia’ the first song on ‘Lucky, Revisited’. It would be well to take heed because […]

Jim Lauderdale “From Another World” (Yep Roc, 2019)

July 19, 2019 Steven Howlett 0

‘From Another World’ is Jim Lauderdale’s, wait for it.. thirty-second album release. It is an astonishing accomplishment. Since releasing his first solo album 1991 he has released an album almost every year and sometimes more (there […]

Remnose “Waiting On The Wind” (Independent, 2019)

June 28, 2019 Steven Howlett 1

‘Waiting On The Wind’ is the new album from Remnose, an indie-folk/rock band based in Detroit. The band are made up of brothers Morton (Marlon on lead vocal and rhythm guitar and Carson on drums) plus […]

Buddy and Julie Miller “Breakdown on 20th Ave. South” (New West, 2019)

June 11, 2019 Steven Howlett 0

The husband and wife songwriting team reunite here for their first set of new songs in ten years. In truth the songs have been written by Julie in the period Buddy was busy working with a […]

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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 […]

Tracks

Ludlow “The Country” – Listen

December 19, 2018 0

Ludlow are a five piece band from Chicago who have just released their new EP ‘Sunset Blues’, which this track is taken from. It’s a song that reflects on how different people see the USA in different […]

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Camille Delean “Fault Line (Late July)” – Listen

July 28, 2020 0

Camille Delean’s new album ‘Cold House Burning‘ was released in July, a follow up to the Montreal based singer’s debut of 2017 ‘Music On the Grey Mile.‘ The new material appears prescient in that it covers […]

Videos

Video: The Dreaming Spires “21st Century Light Industrial”

August 29, 2025 0

Here’s the latest single from Oxfordshire band The Dreaming Spires. ’21st Century Light Industrial’ is a song of escapism that many listeners will associate with, exploring the monotony and mundanity of our everyday working lives. Inspired […]

Articles by Steven Howlett

Nicholas Altobelli “Vertigo” (Dalton Records, 2019)

Karen Jonas “Lucky, Revisited” (Independent, 2019)

Jim Lauderdale “From Another World” (Yep Roc, 2019)

Remnose “Waiting On The Wind” (Independent, 2019)

Buddy and Julie Miller “Breakdown on 20th Ave. South” (New West, 2019)

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”