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The Handsome Family, Folkestone Quarterhouse: 4th March 2017

March 27, 2017 Amanda Beckett 0
Tonight The Handsome Family arrive in town to play to a near capacity crowd at Folkestone’s Quarterhouse. Most it seems, are committed fans of the band although some like me have come along because the venue […]
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Alison Krauss ”Windy City” (Decca/Capitol, 2017)

March 27, 2017 Nick Jarman 0
Alison Krauss is phenomenal. Whether you look at figures like her record 27 Grammy Awards, millions of records sold, career longevity or simply judge her from the purity of her vocals, Krauss really is one of […]
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Warm Soda “I Don’t Wanna Grow Up” (Castle Face Records, 2017)

March 27, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0
The fourth, and apparently last, album from Matthew Melton’s power-pop band Warm Soda is in an incandescent hurry – a dozen songs each clocking-in at well under three minutes, the whole album over in half an […]
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Ned Roberts “Outside My Mind” (Aveline, 2017)

March 24, 2017 Rick Bayles 0
“Outside My Mind” is the follow-up album to 2014’s eponymous debut from London based folk artist Ned Roberts – and it’s a confident and well-produced recording. In fact, in many ways this album belongs almost as […]
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Sweet Gum Tree “Sustain The Illusion” (Dreamy Bird Records 2017)

March 24, 2017 David Cowling 0
In the 1980’s alongside, all of the hardcore, reggae and The Fall, John Peel occasionally championed some bands that didn’t quite fit; they were self-consciously ‘arty’ and most of them would end up on 4AD records […]

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Interview: Hal Cannon on cowboy poetry, songs and folklore

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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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Interview: Mean Mary answers six of one and half a dozen of the other

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