Hannah Rose Platt

Video: Hannah Rose Platt “Young Men Need Their Wives”

May 16, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0

Following the dark folk balladry of her previous album, “Deathbed Confessions”, Hannah Rose Platt moves in a new sonic direction with the single ‘Young Men Need Their Wives’. This is an uplifting anthem with a powerful […]

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Hannah Rose Platt “Fragile Creatures”

April 29, 2025 Jonathan Smith 0

Stirring, intrepid journey into the medicine, myth and mystery of women’s history. Having released two solid (if traditional-sounding) singer-songwriter albums, Hannah Rose Platt swerved away from anything remotely conventional with 2023’s album ‘Deathbed Confessions’. Our review […]

Hannah Rose Platt “Curious Mixtures” – giving voice to the unsung heroines

March 13, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

This is… we haven’t checked… we’re pretty sure… the first song we’ve featured that draws on the history of the development of the complex relationship between women and medicine throughout history and in particular the role […]

Live Review: Hannah Rose Platt + Gene Morrissey, The Other Palace – Studio, London – 16th February 2024

February 21, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

A mild Friday night in central London saw Hannah Rose Platt bring her big showcase to the Studio in Victoria’s Old Palace Theatre. The programme featured front to back performances of her latest album, the Ed […]

Jingle Bells Friday – has the Baileys actually congealed?

December 15, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

It can happen – it’s not a bottle for keeping. And so we reach what will be the last Jingle Bells Friday of the year, because next Friday is reserved for a special treat. Trust us, […]

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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 […]

Album Reviews

Jeff Finlin “Myth of the Giver”

January 13, 2025 0

Poetic words on life, love and longing with echoes of Dylan. Jeff Finlin was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but now resides in Colorado. “Myth of the Giver” is his thirteenth album after 2022’s “Soul On The […]

Album Reviews

Abigail Lapell “Anniversary”

May 30, 2024 0

A marriage of traditional folk elements with a modern pop perceptive. Toronto’s Abigail Lapell’s sixth album ‘Anniversary’ was recorded in St Mark’s Anglican Church situated in the historic old town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. It can be […]

Classic Clips

Classic Clips: Eddie Vedder sings Warren Zevon’s “Keep Me in Your Heart”

July 18, 2025 3

At the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC – October 2017. Warren Zevon was an americana artist, no doubt, though in virtually every description of his oeuvre, he is deemed to be a rock […]

Video: Hannah Rose Platt “Young Men Need Their Wives”

Hannah Rose Platt “Fragile Creatures”

Hannah Rose Platt “Curious Mixtures” – giving voice to the unsung heroines

Live Review: Hannah Rose Platt + Gene Morrissey, The Other Palace – Studio, London – 16th February 2024

Jingle Bells Friday – has the Baileys actually congealed?

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”