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Live review: Boia Festival St Davids, Pembrokeshire 25 – 27 October 2024

November 6, 2024 Oliver Gray 0
Back in 2022, when Boia festival was still known as Cwtch, the band of the weekend for me was Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard. They are still very youthful and prone to extended feedback exploitation and Freebird-style twin […]
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The Wild Feathers “Sirens”

November 6, 2024 Declan Colley 2
Evolving in the right direction, The Wild Feathers nail it. Musical and artistic evolution is something many bands find hard to do during their life cycle, but it is certainly not an issue for The Wild […]
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Clem Snide “Oh Smokey”

November 5, 2024 Paul Kerr 0
Eef Barzelay swaps partners and still comes up with the goods. After hooking up with a band fan, Scot Avett of The Avett Brothers, on his previous album, “Forever Just Beyond“, Clem Snide’s main man Eef […]
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Fancy Hagood “American Spirit”

November 5, 2024 Helen Jones 0
Sage lessons woven into smooth melodies make for an easy listen that still carries a meaningful weight. There aren’t many artists who can say they cut their teeth making pop music – even spending time opening […]
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Fabletown “Fabletown”

November 5, 2024 Tim Martin 0
A debut album drawing influences from many styles to make a unique blend of Americana. The press for their debut album tells us that “the members of Fabletown come from diverse musical backgrounds, bringing together a […]

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Natalie del Carmen “Pastures”

March 11, 2026 0
Big city girl with country sensibilities delivers a fine sophomore album of self-exploration. And here we have yet another female singer-songwriter with great potential in the americana field. Just 24, del Carmen has already released two […]
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Logan Staats “Empty Hands” – nothing left to hold onto

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Out on Ishkōdé Records, Empty Hands is the latest single from Logan Staats, following on from last year’s Medicine Wheel both of which are precursors to the next album from Staats.  All of these things make […]
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Video: Sons of Town Hall “Sirens” – no more trouble now

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Here’s the video for Sirens from Transatlantic duo Sons of Town Hall. There’s an ethereal tunefulness and sweet, haunting poetry to the words as we lose ourselves in Sirens: “Come near sweet travelers // Drink from the […]

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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

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At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]
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Interview: Lady Nade on being involved in a Netflix drama, inspiration, identity and mental health in music

March 2, 2026 0
Runner-up in our readers’ poll for Best UK Artist in 2025, Lady Nade has steadily built a reputation as one of the most distinctive and emotionally resonant voices in UK roots music. Blending jazz, Americana, folk, […]
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Interview: Willie Nile keeps the light on for great American rock’n’roll

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I do a lot of my listening to music while out walking in the mornings, with or without a dog. The day after Willie Nile’s The Great American Light arrived in the mailbox, I popped the […]

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Here we are again with another feature in the FORGOTTEN ARTISTS series, where we take a look at some of the Americana musicians who may just have dropped out of people’s memories or who, perhaps, never […]
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Native Harrow “Happier Now” (Loose Music, 2019)

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Let’s get straight to the point.  This is a captivating, almost mesmeric album of the highest quality.  That last sentence alone will tell you what is to come during the rest of this review but let’s […]

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