Album Reviews
Adult Karate “Indoors” (Plug Research, 2017)
This might be a hard sell, and to be straight from the outset there is not a shred of what most people would define as Americana in this release. Nor is there a touch of roots, […]
Reviews
Live Reviews
South By Southwest Festival 2017. Austin, Texas
I normally advise Americana-loving friends who enquire about sxsw simply to visit Austin at any time of the year and check out venues like the Broken Spoke or the Saxon Pub to get the authentic Austin […]
Album Reviews
Amelia Curran “Watershed” (Six Shooter Records, 2017)
Canadian singer-songwriter Amelia Curran utilises folk, country and pop in fine fashion. Her roving artistic style showing hints of Nashville famed acts Beth Nielsen Chapman and Rosanne Cash, and on the song No More Quiet I […]
Album Reviews
Antenna Man “Elaine Jr” (Independent, 2016)
Modest indie-rock with a speckling of Americana used to be a staple of the records that we reviewed, but lately there’s been a recalibration towards authenticity, the kind that comes from beards it seems. Well Antenna Man […]
Album Reviews
Coco Hames “Coco Hames” (Merge, 2017)
When a new name passes in front of us, we like to be able to say, oh yes she’s that kind of performer. Listening to this first record from Coco Hames I’m left with a good […]