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Joe Stamm “Flower Of The Everglades” – overlooking beauty

April 10, 2024 Jonathan Aird 1
Joe Stamm has put together a collection of songs which form the new EP ‘Allegheny‘ on which he is joined by The Allegheny High, more usually to be found supporting Charles Wesley Godwin.  And, on ‘Flower […]
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Ani DiFranco “New Bible” – Time to adopt different way

April 9, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
Ani DiFranco’s latest album ‘Unprecedented Sh!t’ is being heralded by a pair of singles ‘The Thing At Hand‘ and the song we’re featuring today ‘New Bible.’   It’s a song which depicts a way of living that stands […]
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Kaia Kater “In Montreal” – features Allison Russell

April 8, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
And now is as good a time as any to remind ourselves what comment we made on Kaia Kater back in 2019: “Kaia Kater is an incredibly poised performer, and her songs are complicated and subtle, […]
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Something for the weekend: Waxahatchee “The Wolves”

April 5, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0
Well that’s it from us for another weekend dear reader. As always, we urge you as fellow human beings to support your local Palestine events this weekend, details of which you can find here, and do […]
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Track Premiere: Rachel McIntyre Smith “Parentheses”

April 4, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
Rachel McIntyre Smith has been at music for a while – she started piano at the age of 9 and she soon got pretty good at it as she won the Tennessee State Piano Competition twice […]

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How community might just save you from yourself (and the world). “However dimly we perceive it, we are living through a change of worlds. The one we were born into is slipping away, reshaped and denuded […]

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

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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 […]
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Interview: Lady Nade on being involved in a Netflix drama, inspiration, identity and mental health in music

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Runner-up in our readers’ poll for Best UK Artist in 2025, Lady Nade has steadily built a reputation as one of the most distinctive and emotionally resonant voices in UK roots music. Blending jazz, Americana, folk, […]
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Interview: Willie Nile keeps the light on for great American rock’n’roll

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I do a lot of my listening to music while out walking in the mornings, with or without a dog. The day after Willie Nile’s The Great American Light arrived in the mailbox, I popped the […]

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