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Albi & The Wolves “This Is War” – Listen

June 28, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0
New Zealand folk trio Albi & The Wolves make a big sound with just three people – Chris Dent fronts the band on guitar whilst Pascal Roggen adds electric violin and bass comes from Micheal Young.  […]
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Songs for the apocalypse: Aimee Mann “Going Through the Motions”

June 27, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
I first saw Aimee Mann back in the early 90s twice in Liverpool – once at the Royal Court supporting someone I now can’t remember and once at a jazz club on Hope Street whose name […]
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Bruce Cockburn “Blind Willie” – Listen

June 27, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0
Bruce Cockburn really does not need an introduction – let’s just leave it at a tally of his most recent major awards and leave it at that: 2018 Juno Award for Contemporary Roots Album Of The […]
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Track Premiere: Will Bennett & The Tells “In Nashville”

June 26, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0
‘All Your Favorite Songs’ is the new album from Will Bennett & The Tells, and it is out tomorrow.  And this song is the first single from the album, and what a single it is.  Scathing […]
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Tony Harrah Blues “Sweet Lucinda” – Listen

June 25, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0
‘Sweet Lucinda‘ is the lead single from Tony Harrah’s new album ‘Unicorns‘, and focuses on farming desperation.  Not just crop failures or droughts – the desperation here is that of separating from a wife, the pointlessness […]

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Hurray for the Riff Raff - Alynda Segarra 3rd May 2014
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Essentials: The Top 10 Hurray For The Riff Raff Songs

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In a nod to Woody Guthrie, a 2014 American Songwriter magazine cover featured Hurray For The Riff Raff with the strapline, “Bound for Glory”. I’m not sure how the author of that article defined glory, yet […]
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José González “Against The Dying Of The Light”

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first thoughts José González is a Swedish indie-folk singer – with, naturally, the usual background in hardcore punk influenced by Black Flag and choral singing – Against The Dying Of The Light is his fifth album, […]
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Bedouine’s new album “Neon Summer Skin” out in June

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Bedouine, the project of LA-based musician Azniv Korkejian, releases her new album, Neon Summer Skin, on 5th June 2026 via Thirty Tigers. Across Neon Summer Skin, Korkejian intentionally returned to the instruments she played as a […]

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Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him

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At age 82, Charlie Musselwhite continues to put out relevant and meaningful albums. Sweet. While his body of work may not conjure memories for some of our younger readers, it’s great to see him continuing his […]
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Video Interview: Matt Hill’s Salford Celebration of Guy Clark’s Catalogue on his 10th Anniversary

April 22, 2026 0
Matt Hill has combined his career as a singer-songwriter with his work as a campaigner in the charity sector and currently as a community songwriter. He has tasted success as an americana singer-songwriter and played in […]
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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

April 21, 2026 0
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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Arthur Buck “Arthur Buck” (New West, 2018)

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Arthur Buck is the coming together of erstwhile REM guitarist Peter Buck and singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur. There was a time back in the 1980s when Buck was knocking on the door of rock royalty. Since the […]
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Kory Quinn & Co. “The Blueroom” (Independent, 2020)

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It’s a bit of a challenge to pin down exactly where Kory Quinn is from. Most signs point to Portland, OR but there’s a Twitter account that says Chicago and a Soundcloud page that points to […]
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Video: Frightened Rabbit “Good Arms vs. Bad Arms”

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Have a good weekend everyone albeit one that begins on a sad note. My mate John bought this album for me 10 years ago and this particular track was part of the soundtrack to many late nights. […]

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