Curse of Lono

Track Premiere: Curse Of Lono “So Damned Beautiful”

October 21, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

Dark. We often glibly talk about a song being edgy, being dark, delving deep into nightmare situations. ‘So Damned Beautiful‘, the new single from Curse of Lono’s new album ‘People In Cars‘ is one such song […]

Alabama 3 + Curse Of Lono, 02 Academy, Bristol, 20th December 2019

January 13, 2020 Tim Merricks 0

It’s been a long time coming but Brixton’s perennial sharp-shooters Alabama 3 are once again hungry for that “Sweet Pretty Muthafuckin Country Acid House Music.” The unholy congregation of talent who put the menace into ‘The […]

Static Roots Festival announces first acts for 2020

January 8, 2020 Mark Underwood 0

Fast becoming pretty much an essential date in any Americana fan’s festival diary these days, the Static Roots Festival in Oberhausen, Germany this coming July announced its first performers just before Christmas. Dietmar Leibecke, festival organiser […]

Robert Vincent + The Curse Of Lono + Foreign Affairs, Under The Apple Tree Sessions, Bush Hall, London, 26th October 2019

November 4, 2019 Martin Fisher 0

The hosts for this particular night of what was Country Music Week at Bush Hall were none other than Bob Harris’s Under The Apple Tree, the digital platform for Harris, his son Miles and various family […]

Curse Of Lono + John Murry, The Blue Arrow, Glasgow, 12th October 2019

October 21, 2019 Paul Kerr 1

It’s getting so that Curse Of Lono’s popularity has to push them into larger venues in the very near future. Over a short course they have captured the attention of Bob Harris (who awarded them the […]

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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

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

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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 […]

Tracks

Track Premiere: Arwen Lewis “Winter”

March 15, 2023 0

It’s worth Winter hanging on a little longer if it is going to gift us songs like this new release from Arwen Lewis. It’s a slow and moody ballad of wanting enforced closeness, the kind that […]

Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 67

October 6, 2022 0

A busy, busy week … as usual! Once into the rhythm of the term it becomes a helter-skelter of deadline chasing and plate spinning – just like every other job involving working with children and their […]

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Track Premiere: P.J. M Bond “Ponderosa Pine”

February 27, 2026 0

We’re very happy to offer an early listen to today’s premiere – Ponderosa Pine is the second single by Dutch singer-songwriter P.J.M. Bond off his new album Coyote (King of the Island). It’s one of a […]

Track Premiere: Curse Of Lono “So Damned Beautiful”

Alabama 3 + Curse Of Lono, 02 Academy, Bristol, 20th December 2019

Static Roots Festival announces first acts for 2020

Robert Vincent + The Curse Of Lono + Foreign Affairs, Under The Apple Tree Sessions, Bush Hall, London, 26th October 2019

Curse Of Lono + John Murry, The Blue Arrow, Glasgow, 12th October 2019

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”