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For The Sake Of The Song: Billy Bragg & Wilco “California Stars”

September 15, 2025 Andy Short 0

Woody Guthrie famously wrote on his guitar, “This machine kills fascists”. The world could certainly do with a return from the great man. The lyrics to Steve Earle’s ‘Christmas In Washington’ ask Guthrie to “Tear your […]

For The Sake Of The Song: Lilly Hiatt “The Night David Bowie Died”

September 8, 2025 Andrew Raw 0

I just love this song by Lilly Hiatt, with its great tunes, rousing sing-along chorus, and powerful, moving words. The trick of using a historical event, Bowie’s death, to wrap the song around works well to […]

For the Sake of the Song: Hard Working Americans “Stomp and Holler”

September 4, 2025 Andy Davidson 0

News from the Neal Casal Foundation back in June and the couple of tracks our editor chose over the summer got me reminiscing once again back to 2014, when Casal, as a founding member of the […]

For the Sake of the Song: Maria McKee “Am I The Only One (Who’s Ever Felt This Way?)”

August 4, 2025 Fiona Golden 0

In her 1967 essay “Goodbye to All That”, Joan Didion wrote that young adults always have the curse of “conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before”. […]

For the Sake of the Song: Townes Van Zandt “Pancho and Lefty”

July 28, 2025 Daisy Innes 0

You only have to look at the list of people who have covered this song to get an idea of just how important it is to the progress, legacy and development of country music. Originally written […]

Hollow Hand announces new album for September and UK Tour

July 14, 2026 0

Hollow Hand, the project of Brighton’s Max Kinghorn-Mills, steps out of the bedroom on Wish Road South, recorded live as a trio after touring with MJ Lenderman and Caitlin Rose. The album comes out on the […]

Hudson NY duo Babehoven to release third album in the autumn

July 14, 2026 0

Babehoven, the Hudson, NY-based project of singer/songwriter Maya Bon and producer and multi-instrumentalist Ryan Albert, have announced their new album, I See Them, I See Me, due 18th September 2026 via Double Double Whammy. I See […]

Brennan Gilmore “My Name Is Daniel Leek”

July 14, 2026 0

Majestic debut from Virginia songwriter with a fascinating true backstory. When it comes to musical inspiration, a musician’s life is integral to what music he or she makes. For Brennan Gilmore, that inspiration comes from a […]

For The Sake Of The Song: Billy Bragg & Wilco “California Stars”

For The Sake Of The Song: Lilly Hiatt “The Night David Bowie Died”

For the Sake of the Song: Hard Working Americans “Stomp and Holler”

For the Sake of the Song: Maria McKee “Am I The Only One (Who’s Ever Felt This Way?)”

For the Sake of the Song: Townes Van Zandt “Pancho and Lefty”

Hollow Hand announces new album for September and UK Tour

Hudson NY duo Babehoven to release third album in the autumn

Brennan Gilmore “My Name Is Daniel Leek”

More People Really Should Know About: James Hodder

Ismay “Half Truth”