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John Canning Yates “The Quiet Portraits”

April 26, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

Dream Whispers from former Ella Guru frontman. There is no question that the former Ella Guru singer and songwriter John Canning Yates has picked an appropriate title for his new solo album, which keeps itself determinedly […]

Book Review: “The Beach Boys by The Beach Boys”

April 25, 2024 Tim Martin 1

When the Beach Boys’ “country” album ‘Stars and Stripes’ came out in 1995 Mike Love said, “Nothing’s much more Americana than the Beach Boys and country music combined”. In 2022, our Ljubinko Zivkovic made the case […]

artwork for Dawn Landes album "The Liberated Woman's Songbook"

Dawn Landes “The Liberated Woman’s Songbook”

April 25, 2024 Graeme Tait 0

Landes breathes new life into eleven songs that trace the women’s rights movement through the ages for a contemporary audience. Dawn Landes belongs to that complexing group of artists that have never quite achieved the commercial […]

Live Review: Maya de Vitry + Joel Timmons, Green Note, London – 21st April 2024

April 25, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

An unusually cold April evening saw a good-sized crowd gathering at the Green Note on a Sunday evening to see the return of Maya De Vitry to North London. De Vitry, accompanied on guitars and backing […]

artwork for Pokey LaFarge album "Rhumba Country"

Pokey LaFarge “Rhumba Country”

April 24, 2024 Viv Fish 0

Sunny, Summery, Vintage. Born Andrew Heissler and, interestingly, putting his birth name against his songwriting, singer Pokey LaFarge based his quirky renaming on the childhood nickname used by his mother. Growing up in Illinois, his love […]