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Paige Lewis, Under The Texas Sku, Word Records 2023

Paige Lewis “Under The Texas Sky”

November 23, 2023 Tom Harding 0

A neo-country Texan love story. ‘Under the Texas Sky’ is Paige Lewis’s fourth album, suggesting two things: she may have flown somewhat under the radar, yet this has given her ample opportunity to hone her neo-country sound. […]

Alabama 3 “Cold War Classics Vol. 2”

November 10, 2023 Tom Harding 0

A riotous exposition of old wars and new blues. Alabama 3’s latest album opens with sirens, static, and a surging sense of paranoia. From ‘Goodbye Glasnost‘s’ discordant mix of sounds, a voice declares, “This desperate quest […]

Track Dogs “Blind Summits & Hidden Dips”

October 19, 2023 Tom Harding 0

Track Dogs play jukebox hits for the apocalypse. “There’s some weird road ahead… into the night…” Seven albums in, this versatile Madrid-based band, seasoned on stages across the world, aims to bottle the heady brew of […]

Album artwork for Viv & Riley's 'Imaginary People'

Viv & Riley “Imaginary People”

September 21, 2023 Tom Harding 0

Viv & Riley sing sweet songs of reflection from the front seat. The latest album, ‘Imaginary People,’ by Vivian Leva and Riley Calcagno—now going by Viv and Riley—is an easygoing set of folk-pop reflections, warm as […]

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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 […]

News

Muireann Bradley to reissue debut album with bonus track

February 18, 2025 0

Teenage Irish musician Muireann Bradley has recently signed to Decca / Verve Label Group and will be re-releasing her album “I Kept These Old Blues” together with a bonus track on 28th February 2025. Now remixed […]

Tracks

Gerycz/Powers/Rolin “June” – Exquisite Improvised Sounds

July 14, 2021 0

Jayson Gerycz, Jen Powers and Matthew J. Rolin have come up with something that sounds just sensational on their new album ‘Lamplighter‘ which is due out on the 3rd of September. And hey, we know it’s […]

Tracks

Neal Casal “Green Moon” – Listen

December 4, 2020 0

Yesterday saw the release of Neal Casal’s final two solo recordings, the video for the first of which ‘Everything Is Moving’ we featured. Today we bring you the other track (with no video sadly) ‘Green Moon’. […]

Articles by Tom Harding

Paige Lewis “Under The Texas Sky”

Alabama 3 “Cold War Classics Vol. 2”

Track Dogs “Blind Summits & Hidden Dips”

Viv & Riley “Imaginary People”

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”