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Paperback Riders – Will Birch “No Sleep Till Canvey Island: The Great Pub Rock Revolution”

January 29, 2024 Tim Martin 3

Pub Rock sat in that middle ground between the more excessive bits of 70s rock, and the nuclear year zero of Punk. What it also did was open the door to music based on early R&B […]

Victor Johnson “January Blossom”

January 29, 2024 Paul Russell 0

Bold 22-song collection from Oregon multi-instrumentalist. The notion of releasing a double album is an interesting one. For so many musicians the challenges of Covid and lockdown meant that many were in the studio creating far […]

Artwork for Matthew Robb album "History Before It Happens"

Matthew Robb “History Before It Happens”

January 25, 2024 Joe Graham 0

An accomplished yet ambiguous offering from the world-weary poet. UK-born, Germany-based poet and songwriter Matthew Robb’s fourth album, ‘History Before It Happens’ has a slippery, ambiguous character. Through syllable-packed songs lamenting the state of the world, […]

Select Captain “Roots”

January 24, 2024 Peter Churchill 0

Danish duo are easy on the ear. Select Captain are Danish duo Kristian Gaarskjær and Søren Vestergaard who, although relatively unknown in the UK have, over the 10 years of their existence, forged a reputation in […]

artwork for P.J.M. Bond album "In Our Time"

P.J.M. Bond “In Our Time”

January 23, 2024 Graeme Tait 0

Ambitious debut album that attempts to put Ernest Hemingway’s first collection of short stories to music. P.J.M Bond is a songwriter based in Amsterdam who first came to prominence around eight years ago with his band […]

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Something for the weekend: Brown Horse “Wreck”

March 20, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week and we leave you dear reader with a new song from British slacker twang quartet Brown Horse, the third and final single from their upcoming album Total Dive […]

Danny George Wilson “Arcade”

March 20, 2026 1

Danny George Wilson delivers a reflective and beautifully crafted set of songs exploring loss, memory, and the difficult business of moving on. Danny George Wilson follows up the Danny & The Champions of the World album, […]

Thomas Dollbaum enlists MJ Lendeman and friends for his latest album

March 20, 2026 0

Tampa-born, New Orleans-based singer/songwriter Thomas Dollbaum has announced his new album Birds of Paradise, “a goodbye letter to lost loved ones and former selves,” which will come out on May 22 via Dear Life Records, and […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

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

March 4, 2026 2

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 […]

Album Reviews

David James Allen “The Architect”

March 10, 2022 0

A ten-year meditation on Imposter Syndrome with the music of the last 60 years. ‘The Architect’ is 32-year-old Canadian David James Allen’s third album and is based around a ten-year-old idea of writing about the challenges […]

News

Jesca Hoop, Lail Arad, Olivia Chaney take Mitchell to the masses following their Roundhouse triumph.

July 29, 2024 1

Following the glorious debut at The Roundhouse’s ‘In The Round’ Festival in April, ‘The Songs of Joni Mitchell’ will be performed by the three artists and colleagues in Bristol, Manchester and Glasgow this September. The original […]

Videos

Video: Scott Hirsch “Spirit True”

July 28, 2021 0

Scott Hirsch has shared a video for ‘Spirit True‘, a song from his upcoming album ‘Windless Day‘. Hirsch already has an established reputation as an in-demand producer, but here he’s working both sides of the mixing […]

Paperback Riders – Will Birch “No Sleep Till Canvey Island: The Great Pub Rock Revolution”

Victor Johnson “January Blossom”

Matthew Robb “History Before It Happens”

Select Captain “Roots”

P.J.M. Bond “In Our Time”

Something for the weekend: Brown Horse “Wreck”

Danny George Wilson “Arcade”

Thomas Dollbaum enlists MJ Lendeman and friends for his latest album

Classic Clips: Brown Horse “Wipers”, Newport 2024

Jim Lauderdale “Country Super Hits Volume 2”