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Book Review: David Berman “Actual Air” (Drag City, 2019)

May 22, 2019 Rick Bayles 0

It seems poetry books are a bit like buses – you wait ages for one and then two come along at once! Following on from our recent review of Doug Hoekstra’s ‘Unopened’ we now have David […]

Nick Lowe “Love Starvation/ Trombone” (Yep Roc Records, 2019)

May 21, 2019 Jim Finnie 0

He may be on the wrong side of 70 but Nick Lowe isn’t one for letting the grass grow underneath his feet and his latest EP is a case in point. It may only be four […]

JJ Cale “Stay Around” (Because Records, 2019)

May 21, 2019 John Vaites 1

‘Stay Around’ is a posthumous collection of previously unreleased JJ Cale tracks curated by longtime friend and manager Mike Kappus and Cale’s musician widow Christine Lakeland Cale. Rarely can there have been such a rich treasure […]

The California Feetwarmers “Gloryland” (Independent, 2019)

May 20, 2019 Steven Howlett 0

And, now for something completely different. Instead of travelling the usual dusty highways, we are going to take a sidestep, shimmy and jitterbug off the beaten track and into the world of the California Feetwarmers. Their […]

Alanna Matty “This Past Year” (EP) (Independent, 2019)

May 20, 2019 Mark Nenadic 0

Intimate. A word overused, often lazily, to describe the elemental voice and acoustic guitar approach to song presentation that is pretty much omnipresent nowadays. However, Torontarian (yes that’s a real word) Alanna Matty really does serve […]