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Remedy Motel “We Are All Around Us”

August 14, 2023 Paul Russell 1

Catchy and glorious album number five for Salt Lake City collective. Remedy Motel have coined the phrase Porch Rock to describe their hook-laden music and it’s easy to see why. It is joyful and upbeat – […]

Artwork for Beth Bombara album "It All Goes Up"

Beth Bombara “It All Goes Up”

August 11, 2023 David Jarman 0

Fine vocals and a varied collection of original songs from St Loius-based Bombara. Beth Bombara’s new album release ‘It All Goes Up’ has been preceded by two singles from its ten tracks, ‘Moment’ and ‘Lonely Walls’, […]

Rain Parade “Last Rays Of A Dying Sun”

August 11, 2023 Paul Kerr 1

Veterans of the Paisley Underground storm back in great trippy form. The first glimmerings of a Rain Parade revival appeared when Steven Roback and Matt Piucci toured the UK earlier this year with The Dream Syndicate. […]

Tucker Zimmerman “Over Here In Europe”

August 10, 2023 Richard Parkinson 0

A warm album made up of strong but intimate songs wrapped in imaginative arrangements. The Big Potato reissue of Tucker Zimmerman’s ‘Over Here In Europe’ represents the first time it has been reissued on vinyl (it […]

Gregory Alan Isakov “Appaloosa Bones”

August 10, 2023 FredArnold 0

The singing songwriting farmer from Boulder Colorado continues the magic on album number six. Gregory Alan Isakov was born in South Africa, raised in Philadelphia and now lives in Colorado where he has a farm that […]

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Something for the weekend: Brown Horse “Wreck”

March 20, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week and we leave you dear reader with a new song from British slacker twang quartet Brown Horse, the third and final single from their upcoming album Total Dive […]

Danny George Wilson “Arcade”

March 20, 2026 1

Danny George Wilson delivers a reflective and beautifully crafted set of songs exploring loss, memory, and the difficult business of moving on. Danny George Wilson follows up the Danny & The Champions of the World album, […]

Thomas Dollbaum enlists MJ Lendeman and friends for his latest album

March 20, 2026 0

Tampa-born, New Orleans-based singer/songwriter Thomas Dollbaum has announced his new album Birds of Paradise, “a goodbye letter to lost loved ones and former selves,” which will come out on May 22 via Dear Life Records, and […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Album Reviews

Langhorne Slim “Lost at Last Vol 1” (Dualtone Records 2017)

November 22, 2017 0

Langhorne Slim has taken a “step sideways” from 2015’s The Spirit Moves in order to move forward. The result is a more stripped-back offering that retains much of Slim’s defiant introspection albeit in a more lo-fi […]

News

Wilco play 2 full albums at festival

June 26, 2017 0

News today from JamBase (where you can find all your jam related news) who report: “Yesterday the fifth installment of Wilco‘s Solid Sound Festival got underway at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts. In advance of the […]

Tracks

Peaceful Faces “Doin’ It Wrong” – on a daily basis

June 18, 2025 0

Peaceful Faces – the performance moniker of multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Tree Palmedo, who has also worked with Fleet Foxes as a trumpeter. Here, on a song from Peaceful Faces’ recently released third album “Without a Single Fight“, […]

Remedy Motel “We Are All Around Us”

Beth Bombara “It All Goes Up”

Rain Parade “Last Rays Of A Dying Sun”

Tucker Zimmerman “Over Here In Europe”

Gregory Alan Isakov “Appaloosa Bones”

Something for the weekend: Brown Horse “Wreck”

Danny George Wilson “Arcade”

Thomas Dollbaum enlists MJ Lendeman and friends for his latest album

Classic Clips: Brown Horse “Wipers”, Newport 2024

Jim Lauderdale “Country Super Hits Volume 2”