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[ July 15, 2026 ] Whiskey Treaty Roadshow “Kept Rising” Album Reviews
[ July 15, 2026 ] Live Review: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, British Airways ARC, London – 8th July 2026 Live Reviews
[ July 15, 2026 ] Max Subar “Anything Could Be” Album Reviews
[ July 15, 2026 ] Park Hills Circle “All Of A Sudden” – seasons change Tracks
[ July 15, 2026 ] Video Premiere: The Kennedys “Without Us” – nature might do better Videos

Johnny Blue Skies to release new album “Mutiny After Midnight” next week

March 3, 2026 Richard Parkinson 0

Johnny Blue Skies & the Dark Clouds, along with the label High Top Mountain Records, have joined forces with Atlantic Music Group’s Atlantic Outpost for the forthcoming release of Mutiny After Midnight which will be released […]

Preview: Danny George Wilson launches new album with May tour supporting The Handsome Family

March 2, 2026 Richard Parkinson 0

Danny George Wilson’s latest record, Arcade, has already been previewed in these pages and now Wilson has announced a series of UK tour dates supporting The Handsome family to promote it. For Arcade, Wilson returned to Hamish […]

Ryan Bingham releases first album in seven years in May

March 2, 2026 Richard Parkinson 3

Oscar and Grammy-winning musician Ryan Bingham will release They Call Us The Lucky Ones, his new album with The Texas Gentlemen, on 15th May 2026 via The Bingham Recording Co./Thirty Tigers. It is his first full-length […]

Praise be! Kevin Morby announces new album and UK dates

February 27, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0

Kevin Morby has announced his eighth studio album, Little Wide Open, will come out on 15th May via Dead Oceans. The album was produced by Aaron Dessner, and the single Javelin is out now. Additionally, Morby […]

The Long Road adds new acts to 2026 bill including Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Jim Lauderdale, Felice Brothers

February 27, 2026 Richard Parkinson 0

The UK’s largest outdoor country, americana and roots festival, The Long Road, is returning for a seventh year on the August 2026 Bank Holiday weekend (27th to 30th August). The festival, which takes place in the […]

Whiskey Treaty Roadshow “Kept Rising”

July 15, 2026 0

Whiskey Treaty Roadshow proves that Democracy is strongest when it is diverse. It’s hard to pin down Whiskey Treaty Roadshow. They are all over the map, stylistically, and as a collective. Over the course of more […]

Live Review: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, British Airways ARC, London – 8th July 2026

July 15, 2026 0

And it’s off to another new venue in London, prestigiously located at Olympia in one of those surprisingly hard to get to parts of London. Few are the venues that feel the need to post outlying […]

Cover art for Max Subar album "Anything Could Be"

Max Subar “Anything Could Be”

July 15, 2026 1

Chicago singer-songwriter’s highly promising debut album explores the ceaseless ebb and flow of life’s hopes and fears. Recorded in a house on the shore overlooking a frozen lake in Wisconsin, while nature lay dormant beneath a […]

Interviews

Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0

Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]

Interviews

Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations

July 7, 2026 1

Like the old sailors of yore, Hank Alrich sure knows how to spin a yarn, though I doubt his are made up or heavily stretched. They keep your attention. I would contentedly sit in an armchair […]

Interviews

Interview: Dietmar Leibecke on the ethos of Germany’s Static Roots Music Festival

July 6, 2026 3

Americana UK’s Rick Bayles’ monthly column, Vox Continental, shines a light on what is happening on the americana front in Europe. In his most recent column, Rick gave the nod to the Static Roots Festival, which […]

Album Reviews

Red Sky July “Misty Morning”

February 26, 2025 0

Husband and wife duo Shelly Poole and Ally McErlaine are joined by vocalist Haley Glennie-Smith to produce something special. Red Sky July are a husband-and-wife duo consisting of Ally McErlaine, Shelly Poole, and Haley Glennie-Smith on […]

Tracks

Nico Padden “The Last Time” – landlubbers beware

January 17, 2022 0

Nico Padden is, one could say, “Bold in Her Breeches“, drawing inspiration from the likes of Grace O’Malley, Mary Read, and Anne Bonny. It’s an approach to life and music that has earnt her the nickname […]

Tracks

Patty Griffin “Born In A Cage” – where has all the habitat gone?

July 2, 2025 0

The second single from Patty Griffin’s latest album ‘Crown Of Roses’ is a double reflection – there’s the song’s clear theme of the loss of diversity in the wild, and then there’s the personal part where […]