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Shuffle: Is Robert Pollard is rock music’s Picasso?

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After visiting a Picasso exhibition my friend said ‘I didn’t realise he could actually draw’. What she meant by this was that, to her, drawing and painting is a naturalistic representation of the world; she mistook […]
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Americana Roots highlights the freshest and most original Americana and bluegrass from across the pond in the US.  It covers everything from brand-new, just out of the box bands, to cult favourites, to established acts who […]
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Pick of the Political Pops: Billy Bragg “The Lonesome Death of Rachel Corrie”

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The Israel-Palestine issue is often presented as something complex, and undoubtedly there are complexities to it, but presenting it as almost unsolvably complex conveniently makes people think there’s nothing they can do about it and so […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – week 19

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In which your intrepid correspondent travels back in time. It had been bothering me for a while but last week I finally summoned up the resolve to deal with an issue that had been concerning me […]
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What should I do, Americana UK?

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It seemed that the quiet spell in the advice game was going to be broken at last, until the latest person to enter started to tell his tale.  Bruce, for it was he, didn’t exactly have […]

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Interview: Adam Levy on the Honeydogs celebrated return

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Experiencing a rebirth with Algebra for Broken Hearts, the St. Paul, Minnesota band’s twelfth album on Julian Records (2025), is crucial language, one voicing an undersung American existence. Like the novel, I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif […]
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