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Erin Costelo “Down Below the Status Quo” (Seayou Records, 2016)

June 28, 2017 Phil Grant 0
Despite the protestations of countless wanabees across the world who all want their MTV, (or whatever the kids say now) being a musician is tough work. It’s difficult to tell if it’s harder in one genre […]
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Hillfolk Noir “Junkerpunch” (Independent, 2017)

June 28, 2017 Owen Gillham 0
An obscurely entitled 5th outing if ever there was. “What is a ”Junkerpunch?” we hear you cry. Even good old Google appears to be bereft of answers on that one. Thankfully, the press release accompanying Hillfolk […]
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Kaurna Cronin “Euphoria, Delirium and Loneliness” (Songs and Whispers, 2017)

June 27, 2017 Mark Nenadic 0
Kaurna Cronin is a youthful Australian singer-songwriter. His bio attests to a number of Antipodean folk awards won, yet this, his third album, is very much an exercise in subtle guitar pop/rock. Cronin has a polite airy […]
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Flotation Toy Warning “The Machine That Made Us” (Talitres, 2017)

June 27, 2017 David Stevenson 0
Flotation Toy Warning have returned after a 13 year break with their second full-length album ‘The Machine That Made Us’ and pick up exactly where they left off. Formed in a warehouse in London way back […]
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Sergio Beercock “Wollow” (800A Records, 2017)

June 26, 2017 Rick Bayles 0
Sergio Beercock is a man with an eclectic background. Born to a Sicilian mother and an English father, in Kingston Upon Hull, he now lives in Sicily, where he produces his music while also writing for […]

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India Ramey “Villain Era”

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The Wednesday Adams of country music serves up a treat. Fifty-one years after Loretta Lynn shocked Nashville by releasing The Pill, her spirit is alive and well in the form of India Ramey. Her fifth studio […]
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Interview: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan discusses “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

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Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]
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Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

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David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]

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Video exclusive: The Light Wires “Belly Of The Beast”

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A fine gutsy rocking track from The Light Wires, the band fronted by Kentucky man Jeremy Pinnell (who’s just finished a UK tour) prior to his going solo, and taken from a double album re-issue of […]
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New Josh Rouse out next month, new track out today

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Josh Rouse today releases ‘Salton Sea’ online (listen below dear reader), the third track off Rouse’s new album ‘Love in the Modern Age’, which comes out April 13th on the Yep Roc label. Calling the album […]
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Linda Thompson “Proxy Music”

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A celebration of one artist’s songs by family and friends who just happen to be music icons. You can easily make the case that Linda Thompson is one of the greatest British vocalists of the last […]

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