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Dry Stick “Annualis Naturalis” (Nordic Music Society, 2019)

July 11, 2019 Louie Joe 0
Truth be told, an artist name evocative of trees and an album title in Latin more than likely sparks images of neo-hippies lamenting on their ukuleles. But don’t take that for granted, as Dry Stick delivers […]

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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

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Abigail Lapell

Abigail Lapell to play extensive UK and European tour in November

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Track Premiere: Candace Hastings “Horses I Left Behind”

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April 21, 2026 0
Artwork for Fayen album Something To Look Back On

Fayen “Something To Look Back On”

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Steve Young

For the Sake of the Song: Steve Young “Rock, Salt & Nails”

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April 21, 2026 1
Interviews

Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

April 21, 2026 0
Dale Watson figured it out. He figured out what’s wrong with our disconnected, polarised era. He figured out why we’re caught in a death spiral of social media outrage, intractable positions, and argument instead of dialogue. […]
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News

Abigail Lapell to play extensive UK and European tour in November

April 21, 2026 0
Toronto singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell, who is releasing her new album Shadow Child on 8th May 2026 via Outside Music, has announced a run of six UK headline shows as part of a wider UK and European […]
Tracks

Track Premiere: Candace Hastings “Horses I Left Behind”

April 21, 2026 0
Candace Hastings is long steeped in songwriting. Her first came when she was in fifth grade; it had just one chord and was written on the three-quarter-size Kay guitar that her mother bought for her the […]

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  • Abigail Lapell to play extensive UK and European tour in November
  • Track Premiere: Candace Hastings “Horses I Left Behind”
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  • For the Sake of the Song: Steve Young “Rock, Salt & Nails”
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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

April 21, 2026 0
Dale Watson figured it out. He figured out what’s wrong with our disconnected, polarised era. He figured out why we’re caught in a death spiral of social media outrage, intractable positions, and argument instead of dialogue. […]
Interviews

Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

April 17, 2026 0
Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
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Interview: Thomas Ådland, of Thomas & The Angry Hearts, on Language, Love and Identity

April 13, 2026 0
Two days before I heard them fill Martin’s Bar in Lillestrøm, I watched Thomas & The Angry Hearts make music in a wooden house surrounded by trees. In that studio, sound was built patiently: a harmony […]

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What do you get when you mix trained operatic vocals with Joe Cocker’s soul shrieks and blend that vocal with a lo-fi vibrato heavy rockabilly country sensibility?  You get Hayley Thompson-King.  And what do you get if […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: Lake Street Dive, Roundhouse, London – 31st January 2025

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How to describe Lake Street Dive? The five piece band have somehow synthesised many corners of US pop and soul music into their own distinctive blend with an irresistible party vibe. London’s Roundhouse was sold out […]
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Junior Sisk “I’m Chasing Old Memories Down” – with a whiskey chaser, of course

August 9, 2023 0
It is surely time for a little classic Bluegrass hard luck bad times drowning your sorrows in a honky-tonk song.  And here’s a perfect example of that genre with Junior Sisk reminiscing over the love that […]

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