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All The Bees “All The Bees”

December 18, 2023 Chas Lacey 1

Exquisite nature-inspired alt-folk from innovative collaboration. One of the most astonishing things about the duo that comprises All The Bees is that Kirsty McGee and Gitika Partington have met on only a few occasions. Even those […]

P.G. Six “Murmurs & Whispers”

December 15, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Magical, mystical and totally beautiful music. Pat Gubler – who is the folk singer P.G. Six – hasn’t released a full length album for 12 years, but this return is marked out as something of a […]

The Burrito Brothers “Christmas”

December 15, 2023 Tim Martin 0

Gentle country rock that is for more than just Christmas from a band that fully deserve to use the familiar name. Gram Parsons said in 1972 “The idea’ll keep going. It’s not like it’s dead. Whether […]

Ian M. Bailey “We Live In Strange Times”

December 15, 2023 Paul Kerr 1

Ian M Bailey travels further into 1960s sounds, more nuanced as he progresses No stranger to these pages now, Ian M. Bailey forges on ahead in his reclamation of multilayered tones from the hallowed 60s’ heyday […]

Jacob Faurholt “Burn Burn Here”

December 14, 2023 Helen Jones 0

Raw edges add warmth to this quietly intimate release, although it may feel just too unvarnished for some tastes. It’s news to no one that recently there has been a huge resurgence in the popularity of […]

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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Little Feat after Lowell George

May 20, 2026 0

I’ve gone on record as proclaiming Waiting For Columbus one of the best live albums in the universe, so I took a long time to reconcile myself to the fact that the band had a life […]

Steep Canyon Rangers “Next Act”

May 20, 2026 0

Time to secure your first-class ticket to a bluegrass celebration. Steep Canyon Rangers have been around a long time and continue to produce fine music, and their live performances are legendary. Next Act is their fifteenth […]

Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

May 20, 2026 0

There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]

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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

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Interviews

Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

May 19, 2026 0

Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]

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Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

May 18, 2026 1

At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

Album Reviews

VanWyck “Molten Rock” (Maiden Name Records, 2019)

January 16, 2020 1

Following on from the success of her debut album ‘An Average Woman’ in 2018, Amsterdam singer-songwriter VanWyck brings us ‘Molten Rock’, an album dealing with the complexities, paradoxes and even the duplicities that make us all […]

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Where America Might Go Next Part 3. Paperback Riders has definitely disappeared down a rabbit hole of speculative fiction this year. Philip Roth’s 2004 novel ‘The Plot Against America’ is particularly unsettling not because it ventures […]

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