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Counting Crows “Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!”

June 6, 2025 Fiona Golden 0
A jubilant return with all the fear that’s fit to print. Fading glory in Oklahoma, the modern panopticon of the surveillance state, “we are dissolving from night to morning and I want to believe in something”. […]
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Video: Counting Crows “Under the Aurora”

April 17, 2025 Ed Donnelly 1
Counting Crows continue their long running streak of solid, brilliantly written songs with ‘Under the Aurora’.   From the very first words spilling from Adam Durtiz’s mouth, this is unmistakably a Counting Crows track.  There is comfort […]
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Counting Crows announce autumn 2025 UK dates

March 13, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0
Counting Crows have announced The Complete Sweets! Tour in support of their forthcoming album “Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!” Kicking off on June 10th in Nashville, TN, the tour will bring the band’s live show to […]
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Counting Crows spread the love with new album “Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!”

February 24, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0
Multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated band Counting Crows has announced their forthcoming new album, “Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!” will be released on May 9 via BMG. This is the first new material since 2021’s “Butter Miracle: Suite One”, and the album […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed 127 – “Pain in the… knee”

January 12, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 2
Curse the aging process. Okay it’s time for a little honesty here. I’m on the cusp of the big 60 and have been active most of my life although to be fair I have been much […]

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

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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 […]
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Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

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An ambitious debut album that bravely tackles some very British subjects with an americana-folk twang. The genre may be americana – and America is most certainly struggling with its own set of problems right now – […]
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An album with some credible moments and interesting songs which lay the foundations for his solo career. Country music can divide opinion at the best of times. It’s praised for its tropes and cliches as often […]

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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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

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

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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 […]

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Bill Scorzari “I Stayed” – featuring Erin Rae

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You’ll recall, well, we hope you’ll recall – that last Autumn we were highlighting the first singles from Bill Scorzari’s staggered double album release “Sidereal Days” which has been split into “Sidereal Days (Day 1)“, which […]
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Live Review: Joshua Hedley + Al Shields, Fallen Angels Club @The Glad Cafe – Glasgow, 9th June 2022

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