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Track premiere: Metaxas “Stays On” – Listen

August 11, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
Stays On is the rather lovely new single from New York born singer/songwriter Metaxas, who Music Week described as “the kind of artist who will permanently carve his folk & downtempo infused songs in to your psyche.”  Due […]
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Bill MacKay and Ryley Walker “I Heard Them Singing” – Listen

August 9, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
“SpiderBeetleBee” is the great new title of the new album by Bill MacKay and Ryley Walker which radiates forth with equal parts austerity and whimsy, as evidenced in the lead single I Heard Them Singing. Generating […]
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Minor Poet “Judith Beheading Holofernes ” – Listen

August 8, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0
Minor Poet is Richmond (Virginia) based musician Andrew Carter who has recorded an album – And How! – which is a testament to the beauty of music found in the most unexpected places.   It’s his debut […]
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Hayley Thompson-King “Large Hall, Slow Decay” – Listen

August 7, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
Boston, MA-based fuzz-americana artist (another new genre is born) Hayley Thompson-King cryptically refers to her debut solo album, “Psychotic Melancholia”, as a “Sodom and Gomorrah concept album” influenced by her childhood obsession with the so-called wicked women […]
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Apples… I’m Home “Better Me” – Listen

August 4, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
Oddest name for a band ever (it sounds like a line from “Adventure Time”) but Apples… I’m Home are London based folkies with Scottish, English and Canadian roots, once described as “The Mamas & The Papas […]

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Mary Gauthier “Reckoning”

September 22, 2026 2
One of our finest songwriters delivers an album for our times with consummate clarity and lyrical daring. Mary Gauthier was something of a late starter, delivering her first album when she was in her late thirties […]
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Sylvie finally make a full length debut which arrives in November

September 22, 2026 1
Sylvie, the project of Los Angeles artist Ben Schwab, has announced their forthcoming album, New Season, available November 6th, 2026, via Ghostly International. Rina (feat. Alex Amen) is the single out now. Reflecting on a passing […]
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More People Really Should Know About: Carey Ott

September 22, 2026 0
Carey Ott is nothing if not prolific. He hails from Chicago, and he’s a multi-instrumentalist, a producer and engineer and a performer. He’s released seven albums to date as well as numerous singles. In my music […]

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Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0
Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final […]
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Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1
As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]
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Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

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Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]

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