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New Neil Young film “Paradox” available to stream on Netflix in UK

March 26, 2018 Mark Whitfield 1
Yes Neil Young fans, you can not only stream the soundtrack to the “fantasy western musical” (if those three words don’t strike horror into your heart then they should) but there were newspaper adverts over the […]
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Tom Waits releases for Record Store Day, but not on Gold vinyl

March 26, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0
Gold would surely have been the obvious choice, not because Waits’ voice reminds one of the Spandau Ballet dirge, but because that’s what his 2006 triple album ‘Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards’ achieved in terms of sales.  […]
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Lucinda, Steve, Dwight – it’s the LSD tour!

March 23, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
Have a good weekend dear readers whatever you get up to (my weekend is set). News from RS Country today of a tour that’d be worth remortgaging your house to go and see (since there are […]
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Stream the new Neil Young album “Paradox”

March 23, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
Which was also the name of a Liverpool nightclub from the 90s (Paradox that is, not Neil Young – although what a great name for a nightclub).  Stereogum are reporting this morning that hot on the […]
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John Mellencamp speaks plainly in May on new DVD/CD

March 23, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
Songwriter, storyteller, musician, actor, artist, social activist and fishmonger John Mellencamp has announced the release of ‘Plain Spoken: From The Chicago Theatre’  which comes out on DVD+CD, Blu-ray+CD, and digital formats on May 11th. “Try to […]

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

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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 […]
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Simon Joyner “Tough Love”

May 21, 2026 0
In the lo-fi indie folk tradition, a deeply personal meditation on grief and loss by the Omaha, Nebraska-based singer-songwriter. There is something deeply intriguing about an artist who has, through the 30-plus years of his career, […]
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Still Life Painter “A Month of Longest Days”

May 21, 2026 0
Lowland lo-fi compositions of “love, loss and lap steel”. Phil Smith was part of Glasgow’s thriving indie-rock scene before embarking on his solo venture as Still Life Painter. In 2018, he took on bass duties for […]

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

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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 […]
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Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

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

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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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Kate Rusby has announced her Winter tour that continues her 30th-anniversary celebrations. Her humour and storytelling are a feature of Rusby’s live shows. Each auditorium becomes her local pub or front room, and atypically audience members […]
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Video Premiere: Hannah White “Car Crash”

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It is rare that a song delivers an emotional impact quite like ‘Car Crash’, the latest single from Hannah White.  Right from the simple, direct and disarming opening line: “They want to take my baby,” you […]

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