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Vandoliers “Life Behind Bars”

July 28, 2025 Andrew Raw 0

Catchy and memorable alt-country belies the dark words of addiction and gender dysphoria. Texas-based Vandoliers were formed in 2015 by singer Jenni Rose after her Fort Worth punk trio, The Phuss, dissolved. This is their fifth […]

Live Review: Joshua Ray Walker + Brown Horse, Oslo, London – 2nd September 2023

September 11, 2023 Richard Parkinson 0

Dallas, TX, singer-songwriter Joshua Ray Walker is making his first visit to the UK in 2023 as part of a string of dates in Northern Europe. After his appearance at the Long Road festival over the […]

Live Review: The Long Road Festival, Lutterworth, Leics – 25th-27th August 2023

September 6, 2023 Richard Parkinson 0

The Long Road Festival took place over the August Bank Holiday weekend at Stanford Hall near Lutterworth on the border of Northamptonshire and Leicestershire. In addition to the music on show the event also features a […]

Joshua Ray Walker “What Is It Even?”

August 2, 2023 Helen Jones 1

A lively reimagining of some unexpected tunes that may not be everybody’s cup of tea, but showcases a fresh new side to Walker. With his first three albums, Joshua Ray Walker set himself out to be […]

Joshua Ray Walker announces new album, UK dates

July 3, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

Joshua Ray Walker has been called “country’s most fascinating young songwriter” by Rolling Stone and “one of country’s most exciting storytellers” by Spin. Oh and “crikey this guy can sing” by us, crikey not being a […]

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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 […]

News

Manchester Folk Festival lists first wave of acts for Spring 2026

June 25, 2025 0

Manchester Folk Festival has announced the first acts for the 2026 festival, which runs from Thursday, 19th to Saturday, 21st March 2026. The three-day festival will once again aspire to bring together the best contemporary and […]

Album Reviews

Chris Eckman “Where the Spirit Rests”

July 7, 2021 0

A dark and deeply immersive dive into the human condition from one of America’s finest songwriters. Erstwhile member of one of Seattle’s finest exports, The Walkabouts, Chris Eckman has been resident in Ljubljana for many years […]

Album Reviews

Darrell Scott “Jaroso” (Full Light Records, 2020)

November 11, 2020 0

With a twenty-five year career as an accomplished session musician, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Darrell Scott returns, this time with an intimate live album. ‘Jaroso’ was recorded simply with a 4-track, in front of an audience. It was […]

Vandoliers “Life Behind Bars”

Live Review: Joshua Ray Walker + Brown Horse, Oslo, London – 2nd September 2023

Live Review: The Long Road Festival, Lutterworth, Leics – 25th-27th August 2023

Joshua Ray Walker “What Is It Even?”

Joshua Ray Walker announces new album, UK dates

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”