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Courtney Marie Andrews announces new album “Old Flowers”

March 5, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

And some UK dates too! Singer, songwriter and musician Courtney Marie Andrews, who won our female artist of the year back in 2018, has announced the release of a new album ‘Old Flowers’ which is due […]

Dixie Chicks release first new music in 14 years

March 5, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Fourteen years is a long time between albums – but that’s exactly the time-span since ‘Taking the Long Way‘ and the new album ‘Gaslighter‘ which’ll appear on May 1st. Not that the Dixie Chicks (Martie Maguire, […]

Jeffrey Foucault returns with “Blood Brothers”, UK dates

March 4, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

New England-based Americana troubadour Jeffrey Foucault has announced a UK tour for next month, in support of the European release of his new album ‘Blood Brothers’. Foucault will be touring with Eric Heywood (Pretenders, Ray LaMontagne) […]

King Creosote revisits his love letter to Scotland

March 3, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

March 2020 sees the return of Scottish singer-songwriter Kenny Anderson aka King Creosote’s ‘From Scotland with Love’ project. A combination of heritage film which features themes of love, loss, war, resistance, emigration, work and play, ‘From […]

Quiet Loner is dead. Long live Matt Hill.

March 2, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

After 16 years singer/songwriter and former AUK album of the year winner Matt Hill has announced he’s no longer performing and releasing music under the name Quiet Loner – instead he will release a new album […]

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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

May 20, 2026 0

There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]

Abigail Lapell “Shadow Child”

May 20, 2026 0

Doubts and hopes haunt nine long months. It is perhaps not so much of a surprise to find that Shadow Child is a concept album, and the theme was also somewhat foretold by last year’s album […]

Montana duo Buffalo Traffic Jam to release full-length debut in July

May 20, 2026 0

Rising Montana folk duo Buffalo Traffic Jam have announced their debut full-length album, Pictures of You, to be released on 31st July 2026, both digitally and on vinyl. Pictures of You comprises 14 tracks, including the […]

Interviews

Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

May 20, 2026 0

Interviews

Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

May 19, 2026 0

Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]

Interviews

Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

May 18, 2026 1

At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

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Track Premiere: Matt Charette & The Truer Sound “Going Down Swinging”

February 20, 2023 0

Matt Charette was born and raised in Mashpee, at the foot of Cape Cod – “My mother’s a hair stylist and my dad’s a truckdriver,” he says. “My dad listened to a lot of John Prine […]

AmericanA to Z

AmericanA to Z: Steve Earle

June 3, 2020 2

Steve Earle was a tough choice for this slot. On the one hand, what can you write about him that has not already been well documented? On the other hand, how can you omit one of […]

Videos

Video: Katie Pruitt “White Lies, White Jesus And You”

February 2, 2024 0

Here is ‘White Lies, White Jesus And You’, the powerful new video from Nashville-based singer-songwriter Katie Pruitt. Through her thoughtful, sensitive lyrics, Pruitt explores our relationship with organised religion and how it can be used to […]

Courtney Marie Andrews announces new album “Old Flowers”

Dixie Chicks release first new music in 14 years

Jeffrey Foucault returns with “Blood Brothers”, UK dates

King Creosote revisits his love letter to Scotland

Quiet Loner is dead. Long live Matt Hill.

Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

Abigail Lapell “Shadow Child”

Montana duo Buffalo Traffic Jam to release full-length debut in July

Adam Ross “Bring On The Apathy”

Father John Misty “The Payoff” – read the small print, sucker