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Ron Sexsmith “Hangover Terrace”

September 1, 2025 Darren Lumbroso 0
An album filled with melancholic pop-folk and baroque elegance, ranging from warm acoustic nostalgia to articulate social commentary. The title for Ron Sexsmith’s 18th album is based on jokes his drummer, Don Kerr, made as they […]
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Grant-Lee Phillips “In the Hour of Dust”

September 1, 2025 Peter Thompson 0
A thoughtful, introspective, at times autobiographical album by a renowned singer, songwriter and painter. Although known for his musical exploits, Grant-Lee Phillips first started out as a visual artist; however, on arriving in Los Angeles in […]
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Marshall Crenshaw “From the Hellhole”

August 29, 2025 Bryan Bance 1
Marshall Crenshaw emerges from the Hellhole with a solid collection of recent recordings. It’s been over 40 years since Marshall Crenshaw burst on the scene with his eponymous debut, and he returns with a collection of […]
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WC Beck “A Mostly Quiet Life”

August 29, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
Upbeat latest from well-travelled singer-songwriter. “A Mostly Quiet Life” is something of a hybrid album. Most of the songs were written between 2010 and 2012 when Beck lived in Portland. During a break in touring, he […]
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Susy Wall “Black Lights”

August 29, 2025 Andrew Raw 0
A sumptuous and poetic love letter to The Black Country. This is Susy Wall’s second album after 2024’s “The Spaces in Between”. Wall has lived in the Black Country for 25 years, and the album, funded […]

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