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Video: Grace Petrie “Fixer Upper”

August 23, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0

Grace Petrie delivers deft wordplay in the Frank Turner produced ‘Fixer Upper’. The video is simply shot with the singer delivering the biting yet hopeful lyrics in a large room performing solo. The single is from […]

First names for the Cambridge Folk Festival 2023 announced

February 8, 2023 Emily Dongray 0

Cambridge Folk Festival has announced the first names for 2023 taking place this July. Cambridge Folk Festival is one of the longest-running and arguably the most prestigious folk festivals in the world. Established by Cambridge City […]

Video: Grace Petrie “Storm to Weather”

August 25, 2021 Cam Fraser 0

Independent artist, activist and social commentator Grace Petrie shares her brilliant new single, ‘Storm To Weather‘. ‘Storm to Weather‘ is from Petrie’s upcoming album ‘Connectivity’, the follow-up to 2018’s critically acclaimed, ‘Queer As Folk‘, the album that […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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

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 […]

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The Strangemakers “Wait On Me” – Listen

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Track Premiere: Joana Serrat “Demons”

May 25, 2021 0

‘Demons‘ is the last single to be released prior to the arrival of Joana Serrat’s new album ‘Hardcore From The Heart’ comes out on June 11th. It is Serrat’s fifth album, and for the recording she travelled from […]

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For The Sake Of The Song: Randy Newman “Rednecks”

September 30, 2024 0

‘Rednecks’ was the opening song on Randy Newman’s 1974 album “Good Old Boys” and it was the initial kernel which inspired Newman’s examination of the American South on the disc. When it was released, the song […]

Video: Grace Petrie “Fixer Upper”

First names for the Cambridge Folk Festival 2023 announced

Video: Grace Petrie “Storm to Weather”

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”

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Jack Studer “Falling Forward”