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Live Review: Alan Fletcher, The Bedford, Balham, London – 22nd July 2025

July 30, 2025 Lyndon Bolton 0
As no doubt many readers will have instantly recognised, this is the same Alan Fletcher who plays Dr Karl Kennedy in the Australian TV drama ‘Neighbours’. Readers will also recognise Alan Fletcher, the singer/songwriter from AUK’s […]
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Seawind of Battery “Save The Waves: People For Public Media”

July 30, 2025 Lyndon Bolton 3
‘Experimental psychedelia with ambient americana’ to highlight the defunding of US public media. This compilation album may not be everyone’s idea of americana. Taken on its own, it might not have even made the review pages […]
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Wild Mountain Mystics “Fire & Honey”

July 29, 2025 Peter Thompson 2
Duo turn noodling into an art form, resulting in a record that rejoices in being different to the run of the mill. Southern California duo Wild Mountain Mystics, comprising Rick Deering and Lisa Miller, blend folk, […]
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Anthony Ruptak “Tourist”

July 29, 2025 Andy Davidson 0
Songs dealing with the real and the unreal… at the same time. On the track ‘Phantasmagoria’ Anthony Ruptak sings, “Well it’s a crazy goddamn hell of a mess we made/ it’s a cheap-shot, tik tok, weapon […]
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Live Review: Ann Liu Cannon + Esme White, The Lexington, London – 11th July 2025

July 29, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
So, here we are in The Lexington with a stage decorated with tarot cards and naïve art angel dolls, and with Ann Liu Cannon who is no mean keyboard and guitar player,  who writes literate and […]

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Kenny Shore “Happiness & Misery”

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High-quality songwriting makes quietly expressive, personal record. Kenny Shore is not the kind of artist you stumble across via hype. He doesn’t have the infrastructure, profile, or touring machine that typically drives attention; he doesn’t even […]
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Austin singer-songwriter Alex Amen announces debut album for June

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Alex Amen, the 26-year-old indie folk-country singer-songwriter from Texas, has announced his debut album, Sun of Amen, which will be out on 12th June 2026 via ATO Records. Newly signed to the label, Amen’s full-length debut […]

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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

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Dale Watson figured it out. He figured out what’s wrong with our disconnected, polarised era. He figured out why we’re caught in a death spiral of social media outrage, intractable positions, and argument instead of dialogue. […]
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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

April 17, 2026 0
Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
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Interview: Thomas Ådland, of Thomas & The Angry Hearts, on Language, Love and Identity

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Two days before I heard them fill Martin’s Bar in Lillestrøm, I watched Thomas & The Angry Hearts make music in a wooden house surrounded by trees. In that studio, sound was built patiently: a harmony […]

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Sail Cassady “Got The Pace” – Listen

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“Suicide is not always the quickest of deaths” sings Canadian ​Colin Craveiro​ aka Sail Cassady, explaining that “it’s a slow burn deep in your chest“.   Atmospheric it may be, capturing that bleakness that chills the soul […]
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Chris Stapleton “Millionaire” – Listen

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Like the sickly sweet shortbread of the same name, Chris “Staple Gun” Stapleton has released Millionaire, a new song from his forthcoming album “From A Room: Volume 2.” which is a cover of the Kevin Welch country […]
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Ed Askew “A Child In The Sun: Radio Sessions 1969-1970” (Drag City 2017)

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The energy which oozes from this collection of early recordings retrieved from the archives of old Ed Askew radio sessions provides a strong urge to delete the pesky mp3 and rush out and buy the vinyl […]

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