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Pilcrowe “West of Center”

November 14, 2023 Jonathan Smith 3

A jangly serving of Arizona Americana. Pilcrowe are the joint talents of Flagstaff music veterans Ryan Heinsius (guitar) and Andrew Lauher (drums). They have been making music together for some ten years on the local scene […]

Various Artists “Sonny Don’t Go Away: A Tribute To Ron Hynes”

November 13, 2023 Darren Lumbroso 0

Wonderful tribute to underrated Canadian singer-songwriter. Ron Hynes was a legend in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; seen by many as its unofficial poet laureate. In November 2015, he passed away aged 64 as a result of […]

John R. Miller “Heat Comes Down”

November 13, 2023 Paul Kerr 0

Fine picking, fine listening and great songs. John R. Miller sounds much older than his years on ‘Heat Comes Down’, his second album for Rounder Records. He comes across as the seasoned front porch idler who […]

Ernest Aines “Spiral Bound”

November 10, 2023 Helen Jones 1

While it’s a smooth, intoxicating voice that draws you in, Eines’s excellent lyrics and skilful musicianship only draw you deeper. ‘Pixels’, the opening track on Ernest Aine’s debut album, may be about our ultra-modern fixation with […]

Alabama 3 “Cold War Classics Vol. 2”

November 10, 2023 Tom Harding 0

A riotous exposition of old wars and new blues. Alabama 3’s latest album opens with sirens, static, and a surging sense of paranoia. From ‘Goodbye Glasnost‘s’ discordant mix of sounds, a voice declares, “This desperate quest […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

News

Ryman removes confederate flag for good

September 28, 2017 0

Good encouraging piece from Paste this morning in these dark times for the US: “The Union may have triumphed against the Confederates in the Civil War, but did they really win when there are statues commemorating […]

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Billy Bragg releases song for Palestine “Hundred Year Hunger”

September 2, 2025 1

Billy Nomates added to Gaza benefit show at Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 20th September. In solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla, which launches this week in a bid to break the Israeli naval blockade and deliver […]

Features

Lost Albums: Willis Alan Ramsey “Willis Alan Ramsey”

May 19, 2022 9

A truly exceptional debut album that neither required nor received a follow-up. Some artists spend their whole career searching for that definitive moment when everything comes together to produce the classic album that sits alongside those […]

Pilcrowe “West of Center”

Various Artists “Sonny Don’t Go Away: A Tribute To Ron Hynes”

John R. Miller “Heat Comes Down”

Ernest Aines “Spiral Bound”

Alabama 3 “Cold War Classics Vol. 2”

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”