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Video Premiere: Spencer Thomas “Dark Tonight”

February 8, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0
Gently flowing piano and a compelling vocal melody are at the heart of this performance of ‘Dark Tonight’, recorded live at Sleeper’s Mountain Studios in Portland, Oregon.  This is beautiful music written as a form of […]
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Video Premiere: Lauren Housley “Stay Awake to Dream”

February 5, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0
We’re delighted to premiere ‘Stay Awake to Dream’, the latest video from singer-songwriter Lauren Housley.  The song features a lovely vocal melody and engaging, powerful narrative lyrics: “I made the decision to be no angry man’s […]
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Video: Wes Chiller “Buffalo Highway”

February 4, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0
Gently rhythmic and upbeat, ‘Buffalo Highway’ is an uplifting way to begin your day.  As well as an accomplished musician, Wes Chiller is a firefighter and his new EP, ‘Buffalo John & The Rainbow Crew’, was […]
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Video Premiere: Rick Shea “Big Rain is Comin’ Mama”

February 3, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0
Check out the premiere of ‘Big Rain is Comin’ Mama’, the new video from Rick Shea. The veteran Southern Californian singer-songwriter describes it as “…a nice country two-step about impending doom, maybe set somewhere along the […]
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Margo Price covers John Prine with Swamp Dogg – Listen

February 2, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0
Margo Price and Swamp Dogg have both been covering John Prine’s songs for many years now, and combining their shared passion the duo teamed up for a socially distanced recording of ‘Sam Stone’, Prine’s 1970 standard […]

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Classic Clips: Jesse Colin Young “Darkness Darkness” – All Star Jam, Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey, 1984

June 12, 2026 0
Jesse Colin Young passed away just over a year ago, on the 16th of March, at the age of eighty-three. Born Perry Miller and raised in Queens, New York, to musical parents, Young initially found fame […]
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Kiefer Sutherland “Grey”

June 12, 2026 0
Kiefer Sutherland delivers the latest in a sequence of high-quality album releases. Everyone knows Kiefer Sutherland, right? He’s that big-name actor, a member of Hollywood royalty and part of the Brat Pack in the 1980s; he […]
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Live Review: Aldous Harding + Vera Ellen, The Barbican, London – 31st May 2026

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There’s always a question over whether a gig review should spend too much time on setting the scene before the gig; the travail of travel, the pleasure (or otherwise) of the weather, the detail of the […]

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Interview: Dirk Powell on “Wake” and bridging modern and age-old roots music

June 11, 2026 1
Dirk Powell is a special kind of musician, someone who, through family connections, knows and understands both Appalachia and Cajun music, and is at the same time comfortable with modern music technology. He has won four […]
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Interview: Ma Polaine’s Great Decline is thriving

June 10, 2026 0
With influences in blues, jazz and country, Ma Polaine’s Great Decline is actually thriving on their fifth album, Monster Swan (2025). Based in Somerset, England, Beth Packer’s distinctive, emotive vocals, coupled with her evocative lyrics, create […]
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Interview: Greg Loftus – As both musician and carpenter, he would like to knock on wood

June 5, 2026 1
Greg Loftus comes from the town of Bourne, not far from the bridge that connects Massachusetts to Cape Cod. It is there that he practices woodworking, operates a club in nearby Falmouth and makes rock music […]

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Vox Continental: May 2025

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This month, we have new music that includes releases from two excellent Norwegian bands and an Anglo-German duet, among others, along with a look at some upcoming festivals in Continental Europe. One of the things I […]
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The Blues Against Youth “As the Tide Gets High and Low”

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Modern Country Blues are alive and well and living in Turin, Italy. Every so often an album comes along that takes you by surprise and puts a smile on your face. “As the Tide Gets High […]
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Harmony Rockets w/ Peter Walker “Atropos” – Listen

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Well this is lovely. Longtime Woodstock resident, guitarist Peter Walker recorded two albums for the Vanguard label in the late Sixties in a style best described as American folk-raga. Rediscovered by Tompkins Square in 2006 after decades […]

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