Juanita Stein

Juanita Stein announces 2021 tour and shares new video

December 15, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Juanita Stein has released the video for her new single, ‘Reckoning’, taken from her new album ‘Snapshot’ which we reviewed last month. The dreamy video, which follows Stein as she cycles through the nighttime streets of Southern France, […]

Juanita Stein “Snapshot” (Nude Records, 2020)

November 10, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Australian born but UK residing Juanita Stein has become a significant fixture on the Americana scene in this country, originally as lead singer with Howling Bells and more recently with her solo career from which ‘Snapshot‘ […]

Video: Juanita Stein “Hey Mama”

October 30, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Here is the latest video from Brighton-based Australian singer-songwriter Juanita Stein. It’s taken from her brand new album ‘Snapshot’, which was inspired by the well-lived life of her father, who recently passed away. Stein says of […]

Video: Juanita Stein “The Mavericks”

September 3, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Juanita Stein’s vocal is dreamily beautiful on latest single ‘The Mavericks’. The accompanying video features suitably lovely landscapes, as Stein explains: “We trekked up Castle Hill in the South Downs, to capture the setting sun for […]

Video: Juanita Stein “Snapshot”

August 24, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Here is the title track from Juanita Stein’s new album due out on 2nd October. ‘Snapshot’ is an excellent example of a home-made, lockdown video, created with just a green screen and an iPhone. Stein says […]

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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

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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

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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

Michael Hays “Red Willow”

June 1, 2021 2

A heady brew of cosmic country and post-rock ambience. Originally from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Michael Hays has made his home in Austin, Texas and LA over the years with a quirky line in jobs (working in a […]

Videos

Video: Steve Wallis “What it Takes”

February 28, 2024 0

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January 31, 2025 0

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Juanita Stein announces 2021 tour and shares new video

Juanita Stein “Snapshot” (Nude Records, 2020)

Video: Juanita Stein “Hey Mama”

Video: Juanita Stein “The Mavericks”

Video: Juanita Stein “Snapshot”

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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