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They’re back after 5 long years! The Avett Brothers return with Rick Rubin producing and the new album is called…

March 1, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0
Rejoice Avett Brothers fans, the drought is over, as their new album is out on May 17th via Ramseur Records/American Recordings/Thirty Tigers and after many focus group conversations they’ve gone with a title we’ll remember – […]
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Isobel Campbell announces her new album “Bow To Love”

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Four years after releasing her last album, ‘There Is No Other’, straight into the pandemic, Isobel Campbell returns with her latest, ‘Bow To Love’, which is out via our friends over at Cooking Vinyl on 17th […]
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Fresh from her nomination as best honky tonk female at the Ameripoitan Music Awards, Emily Nenni has announced the release of her new album “Drive & Cry” on New West on 3rd May. After the artistic […]
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Dom Flemons Wins Top Honour in 20th Annual Acoustic Music Awards, the first ever African American winner

February 27, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
Acclaimed folk artist Dom Flemons has won the International Acoustic Music Awards’ (IAMA) Overall Grand Prize in their 20th awards with his song ‘Traveling Wildfire’. The song also won him the Best Folk/Americana/Roots Award.  Flemons is […]
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Iron and Wine announces return with new album the first for seven years – it’s been too long!

February 26, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0
Iron & Wine’s “Light Verse”, his seventh album, comes out on Sub Pop On Friday, April 26th The ten-track collection was produced by the band’s principal singer-songwriter Sam Beam and mixed and engineered by Dave Way […]

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