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Ewan Macintyre “Twenty First Century Fool”

May 26, 2023 Jim Finnie 0

An intriguing transatlantic folk/soul blend with a touch of Gaelic for good measure. With the release of his fourth album ‘Twenty First Century Fool‘, Ewan Macintyre manages to span the Atlantic Ocean with the original tracks […]

Annie Keating “Hard Frost”

May 25, 2023 FredArnold 0

Annie Keating maintains her excellent standard with a lovelorn slice of Americana. Annie Keating is a bit of a treasure and a longtime fixture on the Americana circuit. Based in Brooklyn for 30 years or more, […]

Bruce Cockburn “O Sun O Moon”

May 25, 2023 GrahamBollands 0

Album number 38, and twelve new songs as powerful as anything he has ever written. Bruce Cockburn is an inspired singer-songwriter and an exceptional guitarist, and on ‘O Sun O Moon‘, his 38th studio album, this […]

National Park Radio “Canyons”

May 25, 2023 Martin Johnson 0

Great American landscapes inspire lush folk songs. Describing themselves as indie-folk, National Park Radio have slowly and determinedly been building their profile since being formed by husband and wife duo, Stefan and Kerrie Szabo. Having roots […]

The Dust Collectors “Hanlon’s Razor”

May 24, 2023 Tim Martin 0

Sharp songwriting, and sharper guitar riffs and basslines, with sweet 4 part harmonies. An EP to cherish. The Dust Collectors call themselves an alternative folk band and hail from Calgary, Canada. They claim influences including The […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

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 […]

Videos

Video exclusive: The August List “Palace In The Rocks”

March 31, 2017 0

Taken from their forthcoming new album, Ramshackle Tabernacle, out on May 5th, a great video to accompany a hugely impressive slice of rock’n’roll-cum-folk from the Oxford-based husband and wife duo. There’s also a free download available […]

Political Pops

Pick of the Political Pops: John Cale “Buffalo Ballet”

September 28, 2018 4

The track ‘Buffalo Ballet’ taken from John Cale’s 1974 album ‘Fear’ describes the scene in Abilene, Texas, the sparse piano-based sound lulling you into a deceptive ease as it starts off describing the town as “young and […]

Album Reviews

Besides Daniel “T E E M I N G” (Hubbub! Music, 2018)

October 11, 2018 0

“There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.” The English literary critic Cyril Connolly said that. It’s unclear if the only child of Major Matthew William Kemble Connolly ever […]

Ewan Macintyre “Twenty First Century Fool”

Annie Keating “Hard Frost”

Bruce Cockburn “O Sun O Moon”

National Park Radio “Canyons”

The Dust Collectors “Hanlon’s Razor”

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”