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Jubal Lee Young “Squirrels”

August 15, 2025 Jonathan Smith 2
Downhome truths and shaggy dog tales with front porch tunes. “Squirrels” is Jubal Lee Young’s second album release in as many years, and he sees it as a companion piece to 2024’s “Wild Birds Warble”. There is […]
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Bennett Valuks “Made in London”

August 14, 2025 Andy Davidson 0
Nine heartfelt tracks out of Norwood. Debut album from south London alt-folk group Bennett Valuks. Ian Bennett and Benedict Valuks’ website describes them being brought together through the bustling and vibrant south London music scene and […]
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Kathleen Edwards “Billionaire”

August 13, 2025 Guy Lincoln 1
Canadian Americana maven continues her impeccable ‘comeback’, with added Isbell. Listening to the powerful and joyous declaration that is “Billionaire” it is almost impossible to believe that Kathleen Edwards ever doubted her peerless station in the […]
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Live Review: Hardwicke Circus and special guest Joe “King” Carrasco, Karma Sanctum Hotel, Soho, London – 6th August 2025

August 13, 2025 Peter Feldon 0
After a ground-breaking tour of Ukraine, Carlisle band Hardwicke Circus shared their experiences and memories from the frontline with an invitation-only gig at the very chic Karma Sanctum Hotel in Soho. Not being familiar with Hardwicke […]
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Marissa Nadler “New Radiations”

August 13, 2025 Sebastian Reyes Turner 0
Floating over cosmic terrors and earthly woes. It has been said that truly great artists can’t help but capture the spirit of their times. In recent years, it seems that a greater number of artists are […]

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Video Interview: Alex Amen on “Sun Of Amen” as he comes of age as a songwriter

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Alex Amen is making waves as one of the new breed of songwriters to keep a very close eye on. Born in Texas, he has lived in communes on the West Coast, formed and played in […]
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Sailing Stones “Slow Magic”

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Absorbing collection of songs that subtly reveal the quiet joys of motherhood. The first sound that emerges from the new Sailing Stones album, Slow Magic, is the metronomic rhythm of a baby’s heartbeat with its gentle […]
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More People Really Should Know About: Travis Shallow

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If you’ve ever found yourself searching for music that offers comfort without pretending life is easy, then you should know Travis Shallow. He writes songs that acknowledge the darkness but never surrender to it, and he […]

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Video Interview: Alex Amen on “Sun Of Amen” as he comes of age as a songwriter

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Alex Amen is making waves as one of the new breed of songwriters to keep a very close eye on. Born in Texas, he has lived in communes on the West Coast, formed and played in […]
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Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for

July 16, 2026 0
Nothing I Can’t Undo is such a deeply earnest, empathetic and personal album that captures exactly what a solo debut is supposed to be by introducing us, in full, to Taylor Bickett, a 20-something singer/songwriter from […]
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Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0
Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]

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Welcome back to our continuing mini-series, where some of our writers try to justify the Americana tag for an artist not normally associated with the genre. This time around, it’s esteemed features editor, Clint West, who […]
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Eric Earley’s Blitzen Trapper’s latest is a delightful confection that feels lighter than its source stimuli may suggest (the Tibetan Book of the Dead for one). It is an album chock full of earworms that have […]

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