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Songs for the apocalypse: Whiskeytown “Houses on the Hill”

August 14, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

It’s sobering to think that North Carolina band Whiskeytown formed 25 years ago now, and while they’re best known for being Ryan Adams’ first project, they were more than the sum of their parts and very […]

Dylan LeBlanc heads to UK next month for dates

August 13, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

Following on from the release of his new album, ‘Renegade’ which we waxed lyrical about earlier this summer, Dylan LeBlanc will return to Europe this month for a series of dates including three in the UK […]

Birds of Chicago set to tour through the Brexit deadline

August 13, 2019 Mark Underwood 2

The last release by Birds of Chicago ‘Love In Wartime’ may prove to be a prescient title before too long given reports from the UK food industry that in the event of a no-deal Brexit the […]

Americana acts cover David Berman songs in tribute – Watch

August 12, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

With thanks to BrooklynVegan for highlighting this – tributes are still coming in for David Berman who died last week (we now know sadly from suicide) and some artists have covered songs from Silver Jews over […]

Bruce Springsteen “I’ll Stand By You” – Listen

August 12, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

Want to hear a previously unreleased Springsteen track ? Well, you’re in luck because that’s just what we’ve got for you here. And, as you’ve probably already noticed, it’s all thanks to the new feel good […]

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Essentials: The Top 10 James McMurtry Songs

May 21, 2026 2

It was the legendary American author Stephen King who said, “James McMurtry may be the truest, fiercest songwriter of his generation”. At the same time, much closer to home, BBC Radio 2’s Bob Harris called him “the […]

Bedouine “Neon Summer Skin”

May 21, 2026 0

A beautiful reflection on family, and the search for home and belonging, with a new depth to the music. Bedouine is the project of Azniv Korkejian. Her family has migrated between Armenia, Syria and Saudi Arabia […]

Laura Veirs to release an August album before touring the UK in September

May 21, 2026 0

Esteemed Portland, Oregon-based artist Laura Veirs has announced that her new album, Temple Songs, will come out on 14th August via her label Raven Marching Band Records. Veirs has also shared her lead single Flying Into […]

Interviews

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 […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

May 19, 2026 2

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 […]

Album Reviews

Elles Bailey “Beneath the Neon Glow”

August 22, 2024 1

A poignant, perfectly formed collection of powerful songs. “Beneath the Neon Glow” is many things to multi-award-winning Elles Bailey. Having released her first three studio albums as an independent artist, Bailey recognised that she was “a […]

Album Reviews

Marisa Anderson “Still, Here”

November 17, 2022 0

Pared-down, guitar-led folk, blues and country instrumentals that could be film soundtracks – beautiful, yet occasionally unsettling. Cinematic is an overused term in music reviewing but in the case of Portland-based guitarist Marisa Anderson’s latest instrumental […]

Dirty Dozens

Dirty Dozen: Jaime Wyatt

August 14, 2017 0

Jaime Wyatt’s newest release ‘Felony Blues’, whose title is a nod to records like David Allan Coe’s ‘Penitentiary Blues’, is largely an autobiographical collection of convict love stories, prison songs, and honky-tonk laments. Can you tell […]

Songs for the apocalypse: Whiskeytown “Houses on the Hill”

Dylan LeBlanc heads to UK next month for dates

Birds of Chicago set to tour through the Brexit deadline

Americana acts cover David Berman songs in tribute – Watch

Bruce Springsteen “I’ll Stand By You” – Listen

Essentials: The Top 10 James McMurtry Songs

Bedouine “Neon Summer Skin”

Laura Veirs to release an August album before touring the UK in September

Simon Joyner “Tough Love”

Still Life Painter “A Month of Longest Days”