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Steven Page announces UK dates for August
Following a string of shows in the UK in 2017 playing as a trio, Canadian musician and ex-Barenaked Lady Steven Page will return to the UK this August for a new set of shows including a […]
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CMA elects rabid Republican to board – and then changes its mind
An interesting tale over the last couple of days almost made for the 24-hour news cycle. On Tuesday, the philanthropic arm of the Country Music Association announced the election of former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee to its board […]
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Pick of the Political Pops: Marty Robbins “Big Iron”
Lately we were horrified to find that Americana-UK Towers had been visited by a host of unwanted visitors. In short we had a vermin problem. Rats. Big ones. Big, horrible nasty, sharp teethed Johnnies with scaly […]
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New Josh Rouse out next month, new track out today
Josh Rouse today releases ‘Salton Sea’ online (listen below dear reader), the third track off Rouse’s new album ‘Love in the Modern Age’, which comes out April 13th on the Yep Roc label. Calling the album […]
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Folk heroes Alvin and Gilmore unite for new album – June
Friends for over three decades, it took Dave Alvin, the founder of seminal punk roots band Alvin and the Chipmunks The Blasters, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, of the pioneering country-folk trio The Flatlanders, until last year to collaborate […]