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Andrew Weiss and Friends “The Last of the Outdoor Kids”

October 10, 2025 Peter Thompson 0
Catchy tunes, jangly guitars and harmonies make this blend of Laurel Canyon folk rock and late 1970s power pop an enjoyable release. Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Weiss began drum lessons when he was only four […]
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Andrew Weiss and Friends “Put That In Your Pipe (and Smoke It)” – what the man said…

September 10, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Long Island’s Andrew Weiss and Friends have found a way to keep the music flowing – songwriter Andrew Weiss has developed an interesting technique – when an album is about to be released, he starts on […]
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Andrew Weiss and Friends “the world’s smallest violin”

October 31, 2024 Andrew Raw 0
Back to the seventies with this thoughtful and well-written lively soft-rock. This is Andrew Weiss’ sixth album with his “Friends” and it’s a record that takes you back to the seventies with its jaunty, often piano-based, […]
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Video Premiere: Andrew Weiss and Friends “We’re Trying to Have a Society Here”

September 6, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0
If you’re looking for something to bring a little joy and hope into your life at the end of another working week, then take in the latest single and video from Long Island-based Andrew Weiss and […]
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Andrew Weiss and Friends “Beverly Hills, Thanksgiving Day”

December 20, 2023 Lyndon Bolton 0
Deep thoughts with deft turns of phrase all to a warm West Coast sound. Amid the gloom under relentlessly grey skies as the year draws to a close a glimmer of sunshine appears from Long Island […]

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Something for the weekend: This is Lorelie “Where’s Your Love Now (Waxahatchee Version)”

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Well that’s it from us for this week. Regular readers will no doubt be sick to death now of me plugging this guy but his stuff is so good and as if any more proof was […]
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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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Remedy Motel “Counting Sand”

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Utah band on a roll with their second ‘comeback’ album after a 15-year hiatus. You feel as though you should showcase this band in our Feature article More People Really Should Know About..…because, despite the fact […]

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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

April 13, 2026 0
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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Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Ríoghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

April 7, 2026 0
How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]

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Lukas Nelson is, of course, the son of Willie Nelson and the Promise of the Real has been his band for the past 10 years at least; this is their first studio album since their epic […]
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Dirty Dozen: Seafoam Green

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Seafoam Green is the brainchild of Dublin-born troubadour Dave O’Grady. The band formed in 2011 following a chance meeting with Rich Robinson of The Black Crowes whilst O’Grady was recording in Nashville. The pair struck up […]
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Anderson East, Jazz Cafe, London, 30th May 2018

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London’s Jazz Cafe tonight replicated the steamy humidity of Anderson East’s Athens, Alabama roots on what was a sold out show for this artist who is described as  as being an R’nB singer, R’n’B in the […]

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