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Join Willie Nelson for his virtual birthday party tonight!

April 29, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

Willie Nelson is cordially inviting his fans to join in a celebration for his birthday tonight (April 29th) at 4:20 PM CST, or 10:20pm UK time. Tickets are $10 and proceeds will be donated to the […]

Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real announce new album – listen to the first single

April 29, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real have announced the release of their new album ‘A Few Stars Apart’ which lands in the UK on June 11th via Fantasy Records (the label does actually exist, it’s […]

Counting Crows are back with a new EP – Listen to the first song from it

April 28, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

After an absence of nearly seven years now (maybe they broke a mirror and didn’t want to risk it?) our favourite avian musos Counting Crows have announced their return with a new EP oddly titled ‘Butter […]

New Yola album due July – watch her new video

April 22, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

Yola has announced what’s described as her “anthemic” new album ‘Stand For Myself’, which will be released via Easy Eye Sound in the UK on July 30, 2021 – and boy is she back. Just look […]

Rod Picott to release album of co-writes with Slaid Cleaves

April 21, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

Rod Picott has announced a new album ‘Wood, Steel, Dust & Dreams’ which will be released on May 21st. The double CD contains fresh recordings of every song that Rod has written over the past thirty […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Matraca Berg

July 29, 2026 0

Yes I know I am picking two albums from a catalogue of only 8, two of which are compilations and one that was never released. For some reason the label didn’t like it, though two of […]

Gary Marks “Sky High” – How could water catch fire?

July 29, 2026 0

This new song is a relatively old song; it comes from Gary Marks’ unreleased album A Whisper Can Change The World, recorded in 2007. So, why unreleased? Gary Marks had started out on his singer-songwriter path […]

Amy Speace to release debut poetry collection and new single

July 29, 2026 0

Award-winning singer-songwriter and poet Amy Speace will release her debut collection of poetry titled The Cardinals on Tuesday 1st September 2026. It will be published by Red Hen Press. Speace will also be releasing an accompanying […]

Interviews

Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”

July 29, 2026 0

American Aquarium appear to be on a creative roll with their latest album, New Ways To Lose, getting great reviews even though it is their twentieth album in as many years. Added to this is the […]

Interviews

Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories

July 28, 2026 0

“Radiate a smile if we’re only here for a short while / no we don’t want to miss a day / cus there’s so much we must do,” sings David Keenan on Radiate a Smile, four […]

Interviews

Interview: The Lives of Famous Men take the elevator upward

July 24, 2026 0

End Times Elevator Music is a special record to behold. From the Link Wray fuzz guitar rumbles on opener No Alarm to the title track closer, which arrives like Ben Schneider and Brendan Urie collaborated, there […]

Tracks

Heather Sarona “For Me” – let’s be in love, in time

January 10, 2022 0

Heather Sarona grew up in a folk/bluegrass world in a small town in the Uwharrie Mountains in North Carolina. And once she took possession of her dad’s old guitar at the age of 14 then the […]

Album Reviews

Sarah Shook and the Disarmers “Nightroamer”

February 18, 2022 0

Fearless, raw and vulnerable offering from raucous garage/punk/country outfit ‘Nightroamer’ is the latest album from Sarah Shook and the Disarmers, and continues their soundtrack for the “outliers and weirdos”, in Shook’s words. “It doesn’t have to be a bad thing, it can be whatever you want it to be”. The music within is perhaps very slightly smoother than before, though it certainly retains the attitude and rawness found on their previous recordings, of garage rock and […]

Album Reviews

Steve Wynn “Make It Right”

August 28, 2024 0

Dream Syndicate founder releases semi-autobiographical solo album. Steve Wynn has a lot of outlets for his music, the revived Dream Syndicate being of course the most significant, and so it is hardly surprising that solo albums […]