Jolie Holland

Jolie Holland returns to the UK for autumn dates

May 14, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

Renowned singer-songwriter Jolie Holland has announced a series of UK dates in the autumn of 2025. The shows mark a welcome return after her last tour here in the early Spring of 2024. Holland’s latest album, […]

Austin’s Amy Annelle announces new album

June 5, 2024 Richard Parkinson 2

Austin-based singer-songwriter Amy Annelle has announced her forthcoming LP, ‘The Toll,’ due out on 2nd August 2024, on the High Plains High label. Annelle, who is emerging from a long battle with chronic illness, last released […]

Grey DeLisle “Driftless Girl”

May 21, 2024 Viv Fish 0

A contemporary step back in time. It is easy to admire creative, artistic, comedic or musical talent, but when one person is gifted with the full range, you must ask yourself, when does this person ever […]

Live Review: Jolie Holland + Mark McKowski, Portland Arms, Cambridge – 1st April 2024

April 10, 2024 Adrian Dzialdowski 1

The Portland Arms in Cambridge (capacity 200) had a hard time getting punters out for this exceptional gig on the fag end of Easter weekend. Consequently the usual competition to get to the front was non-existent […]

Grey DeLisle to release second new album of 2024

April 4, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Following the release of ‘She’s An Angel’ in January, Grey DeLisle has announced the release of her second album of 2024, ‘Driftless Girl’. It is due to be issued in Europe on 31st May 2024 via […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

Album Reviews

Doug Schmude “Mileposts” (Independent, 2020)

November 19, 2020 0

Doug Schmude has flown under the radar for seventeen years, producing four studio albums and now this EP. If you have not yet heard the previous you can start here. Born in Louisiana, but residing in […]

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Video Premiere: Madeline Rosene “Words”

November 25, 2022 0

Check out the latest single from singer-songwriter Madeline Rosene. ‘Words’ features, warm guitar and sonic layers that add mesmerising, darker depths and textures. Most striking of all, Rosene’s sweetly melodic vocal is totally captivating, drawing us […]

Album Reviews

Tim Houlihan “Another Orion’ (Independent, 2016)

December 21, 2016 0

Tim Houlihan has a voice made for country music and a grasp of a broad range of Americana styles. If he wasn’t a veteran of the scene this would sound like a perfect calling card for […]

Jolie Holland returns to the UK for autumn dates

Austin’s Amy Annelle announces new album

Grey DeLisle “Driftless Girl”

Live Review: Jolie Holland + Mark McKowski, Portland Arms, Cambridge – 1st April 2024

Grey DeLisle to release second new album of 2024

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”