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Adam Douglas “Better Angels”

March 11, 2021 Lyndon Bolton 0
Stretching the boundaries of Americana. This third full-length solo album from Adam Douglas stretches even Americana’s pliable genre boundaries. Wrapped in a big band sound ‘Better Angels’ takes in classic soul, blues, rock, R&B, jazz and […]
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Departure Lounge “Transmeridian”

March 11, 2021 Sean Hannam 0
After two decades away, Departure Lounge return with a strong collection of melodic, quirky indie-pop songs and cinematic instrumentals. Cult UK indie-experimentalists Departure Lounge are back, with their first album in almost 20 years –  ‘Transmeridian’. […]
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Morning Bride “Goodbye, Seaside Danny Wilde”

March 10, 2021 Helen Jones 0
Richly woven and warm, these transportive tales will take you away. While Morning Bride are a band formed in London, its members come from various northern realms: the Yorkshire coast for rhythm guitarist Mark James Pearson, […]
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Cassandra Jenkins “An Overview on Phenomenal Nature”

March 10, 2021 Harold Hogan 0
Spellbinding Art-Americana from NYC. New York native Cassandra Jenkins returns with her second full-length studio album; an intimate, varied, and complex piece of work. Due to go on tour with Purple Mountains before David Berman’s suicide, […]
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Ontarians “The Greatest Short Story Never Told”

March 9, 2021 Sean Hannam 0
Distinctly average first long-player from a trio including two veteran, Canadian roots-rock scenesters – works best when it sounds like Springsteen and Wilco. ‘The Greatest Short Story Never Told’, which is the debut album by Canadian […]

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Something for the long weekend: Steve Earle “City of Immigrants”

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Well that’s it from us for this week. If you haven’t got your tickets yet for our 25 year anniversary event featuring Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn and you know, others of our ilk, you can head […]
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We will be starting to publish our Americana Stories in June, but the submission deadline is not until the end of August. We have some great work to share with you through the summer, so if […]
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Mia Kelly “Big Time Rollercoaster Feeling”

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In “Big Time Roller Coaster Feeling” Mia Kelly leaps from her roots in folk and blues to a foray into pop territory. At only 23 years of age, Québec-based singer-songwriter Mia Kelly has released her third […]

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

May 20, 2026 0
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

May 19, 2026 2
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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