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Leah Blevins

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Live Reviews

Live Review: Leah Blevins, Rough Trade, Denmark Street, London – 26th June 2026

July 3, 2026 Richard Parkinson 0
Performances don’t get much more intimate when less than 50 people are in the front space of a record shop and the artist is playing unamplified, less than five feet away. In the autumn of 2025, […]
Videos

Video: Leah Blevins “Diggin’ In The Coal” (Live From Easy Eye Sound)

June 19, 2026 Andrew Frolish 0
Enjoy the new performance video for Diggin’ In The Coal from Kentucky-born singer-songwriter Leah Blevins, recorded live at Easy Eye Sound. Over gorgeously warm twin acoustic guitars, Blevins delivers a pure, perfect country vocal performance that winds […]
Videos

Video: Leah Blevins “Be Careful Throwing Stones” – Those who live in glass houses…

January 20, 2026 Andrew Frolish 0
Here’s the latest single from Leah Blevins. ‘Be Careful Throwing Stones’ features shimmering instrumental layers, over which Blevins’ voice is clear and pure as she delivers words about love unravelling: “When you got a glass heart […]
Leah Blevins @ The Basement, Nashville TN. September 2023
Features

More People Should Really Know About: Leah Blevins

October 7, 2025 Richard Parkinson 1
Leah Blevins is an act that crossed this writer’s path as a support act. And as happens from time to time, the response is a big “wow”. Her output may be relatively thin to date: one […]

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Video Interview: Alex Amen on “Sun Of Amen” as he comes of age as a songwriter

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Artwork for Sailing Sones album "Slow Magic"

Sailing Stones “Slow Magic”

Album Reviews
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Image taken at Maverick Festival

More People Really Should Know About: Travis Shallow

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Jerry Joseph, Water Rats 8/7/26

Live Review: Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons + Red Hash + Ella Spencer, Water Rats, London – 8th July 2026

Live Reviews
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Martin Carthy “Along the Road Forever – Live at the BBC”

Album Reviews
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Interviews

Video Interview: Alex Amen on “Sun Of Amen” as he comes of age as a songwriter

July 21, 2026 0
Alex Amen is making waves as one of the new breed of songwriters to keep a very close eye on. Born in Texas, he has lived in communes on the West Coast, formed and played in […]
Artwork for Sailing Sones album "Slow Magic"
Album Reviews

Sailing Stones “Slow Magic”

July 21, 2026 0
Absorbing collection of songs that subtly reveal the quiet joys of motherhood. The first sound that emerges from the new Sailing Stones album, Slow Magic, is the metronomic rhythm of a baby’s heartbeat with its gentle […]
Image taken at Maverick Festival
Features

More People Really Should Know About: Travis Shallow

July 21, 2026 0
If you’ve ever found yourself searching for music that offers comfort without pretending life is easy, then you should know Travis Shallow. He writes songs that acknowledge the darkness but never surrender to it, and he […]

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Interviews

Video Interview: Alex Amen on “Sun Of Amen” as he comes of age as a songwriter

July 21, 2026 0
Alex Amen is making waves as one of the new breed of songwriters to keep a very close eye on. Born in Texas, he has lived in communes on the West Coast, formed and played in […]
Interviews

Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for

July 16, 2026 0
Nothing I Can’t Undo is such a deeply earnest, empathetic and personal album that captures exactly what a solo debut is supposed to be by introducing us, in full, to Taylor Bickett, a 20-something singer/songwriter from […]
Interviews

Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0
Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]

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Simon Joyner “Pocket Moon” (BB*Island, 2019)

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It’s always a surprise to come across someone for the first time who’s actually been making music for ages – in Simon Joyner’s case 17 years and as many albums, not so much because it’s new […]
Tracks

Hayfitz “What’s Wrong” – everything, just everything

August 24, 2023 0
On this distinctly lo-fi and somber song Hayfitz reveals a heart that is falling apart, and falling apart just where they’d rather it wasn’t: “Fuck there it goes / I’m crying right in front of you […]
Album Reviews

David Ramirez “My Love Is A Hurricane” (Thirty Tigers, 2020)

July 15, 2020 0
David Ramirez is releasing his fifth album ‘My Love Is A Hurricane’ via SweetWorld/Thirty Tigers, the second not self-produced after first using an outside producer on 2017’s ‘We’re Not Going Anywhere’. This time that role goes […]

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