Arborist

Live Review: Arborist, The Hug and Pint, Glasgow – 28th May 2023

June 5, 2023 KC Vines 0

At the end of a short mainland UK tour; four dates in as many nights from Hackney to Glasgow, it would be tempting to finish on an upbeat number then take the party to the Hug […]

Video Premiere: Arborist “Alabaster Skin”

March 14, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

Belfast’s Mark McCambridge, also-known-as Arborist, once again demonstrates his fine songcraft on the third single from ‘An Endless Sequence of Dead Zeros’, which is due for release on 21st April 2023. Matthew E. White produced Arborist’s new […]

Arborist to release third album “An Endless Sequence of Dead Zeros”

February 2, 2023 Emily Dongray 0

Arborist has announced their latest album, ‘An Endless Sequence of Dead Zeros‘, is to be released on 21st April 2023 on Kirkinriola Records. This follows Belfast artist Mark McCambridge’s debut ‘Home Burial‘ (2016), which included his […]

Live Review: The Delines + Arborist, Alexandra Palace Theatre, London – 11th November 2022

November 24, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

The long trudge up the hill to Alexandra Palace reaps a heck of a reward – this was a first visit to the recently re-opened Alexandra Place Theatre and to say it is a remarkable space […]

M. Cambridge “Land Songs: The Ballad of Sok le Boy”

May 11, 2021 Clint West 0

Belfast songwriter, inspired by an old map, comes up with cracking little EP. M. Cambridge is the side project of Mark McCambridge of highly regarded Belfast act Arborist. ‘Land Songs: The Ballad of Sok le Boy’ […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

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

March 4, 2026 2

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 […]

Videos

Video Premiere: Melissa Ruth “Edith Piaf”

February 14, 2023 0

Here is ‘Edith Piaf’, the intimate new single from Melissa Ruth, who was raised in rural British Columbia, listening to and inspired by the likes of Bob Dylan. The sound is beautifully warm and layered, featuring […]

Features

Save Our Venues UK campaign launched

April 28, 2020 0

The Music Venue Trust has announced #saveourvenues, a new national campaign to save hundreds of UK grassroots music venues at imminent risk of being permanently closed down. The organisation states on its press release: “Without these […]

Features

AmericanaA to Z – Waylon Jennings

April 21, 2020 0

When I knew I was going to be covering the letter W in the latest round of the A-Z of Americana I considered a number of options – Lucinda Williams, Willie Nelson, Wilco… but I ended […]

Live Review: Arborist, The Hug and Pint, Glasgow – 28th May 2023

Video Premiere: Arborist “Alabaster Skin”

Arborist to release third album “An Endless Sequence of Dead Zeros”

Live Review: The Delines + Arborist, Alexandra Palace Theatre, London – 11th November 2022

M. Cambridge “Land Songs: The Ballad of Sok le Boy”

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”