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Amanda DeBoer Bartlett “Braided Together”

July 4, 2025 Tim Martin 0
Fine songs about children and motherhood, set to only intermittently great music. A common way for P.R.s to direct the attention of reviewers to an album is “RIYL,” which stands for “Recommended If You Like”. In […]
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Willi Carlisle “Winged Victory”

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Willi Carlisle comes up with an album which is both defiant and hopeful. “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” So wrote Hunter S. Thompson back in the 70s amidst the turmoil of the […]
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Robert Forster “Strawberries”

July 3, 2025 Paul Kerr 0
Forster’s ninth album finds him in a happier place as he finds solace in Sweden. The ghost of The Go-Betweens continues to hover over the solo career of Robert Forster, one half (one third really when […]
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Lisa Akuah “Golden Seams”

July 2, 2025 Helen Jones 0
A refreshing perspective and a unique voice helps “Golden Seams” stand out from a slew of similar singer-songwriter offerings. “Everything that left a crack in me / A break / A gap / A piece amiss […]
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Kai Crowe-Getty “The Wreckage”

July 2, 2025 John Lee 0
A solo album of scars and survival – poetic without being abstract, deeply human and rooted in American soil. Kai Crowe-Getty, the frontman of Lord Nelson, has collected together these tracks across a number of years. […]

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Interview: Willie Nile keeps the light on for great American rock’n’roll

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Interview: Adam Levy on the Honeydogs celebrated return

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Experiencing a rebirth with Algebra for Broken Hearts, the St. Paul, Minnesota band’s twelfth album on Julian Records (2025), is crucial language, one voicing an undersung American existence. Like the novel, I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif […]

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