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Horsebath band at the end of their set at the Take Root festival on the Foyer stage

Live Review: Take Root Festival 2025, De Oosterpoort Groningen – 1st November 2025

November 10, 2025 NickBarber 1

Long a mainstay of the European americana festival scene, once again, Take Root Festival took over the six stages of the De Oosterpoort complex in Groningen, the Netherlands. The building itself is a multi-room/multi-space cultural centre […]

For The Sake Of The Song: Lilly Hiatt “The Night David Bowie Died”

September 8, 2025 Andrew Raw 0

I just love this song by Lilly Hiatt, with its great tunes, rousing sing-along chorus, and powerful, moving words. The trick of using a historical event, Bowie’s death, to wrap the song around works well to […]

Something for the weekend: Lilly Hiatt “Bean”

September 10, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

That’s it from us for another week dear reader, and we leave you news of a new full-length album from Lilly Hiatt which will be released this autumn, on October 15th to be precise. ‘Lately’ was […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: Lilly Hiatt “Walking Proof”

February 8, 2021 Lyndon Bolton 0

Seeking a link from John Hiatt offers many directions. But let’s not go too far, follow the great man’s advice to ‘Bring The Family’, and extend the connection to his daughter Lilly. With four solo albums […]

Lilly Hiatt “Walking Proof” (New West, 2020)

April 22, 2020 Martin Johnson 0

It can be surprisingly difficult to establish a long-term career as a musician if you have a parent who is also a successful musician. Obviously you get first hand knowledge of the music industry, and you […]

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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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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

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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 […]

Columns

Shuffle: Is Robert Pollard is rock music’s Picasso?

May 21, 2021 1

After visiting a Picasso exhibition my friend said ‘I didn’t realise he could actually draw’. What she meant by this was that, to her, drawing and painting is a naturalistic representation of the world; she mistook […]

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Video: Rufus Wainwright featuring John Legend “Heading for Home”

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Rufus Wainwright brings in the big guns for his new album including John Legend on ‘Heading for Home’. The two performers are featured in a new music video, a straight forward studio performance. Accompanied by banjo […]

Album Reviews

Mol Sullivan “Goose”

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Assured and dynamic debut emerges after long gestation. Hailing from Cincinnatti, Mol Sullivan has created a compelling debut in “Goose”. It’s at times measured and hymnal and at others eccentric both in arrangement and delivery. This […]

Live Review: Take Root Festival 2025, De Oosterpoort Groningen – 1st November 2025

For The Sake Of The Song: Lilly Hiatt “The Night David Bowie Died”

Something for the weekend: Lilly Hiatt “Bean”

AUK’s Chain Gang: Lilly Hiatt “Walking Proof”

Lilly Hiatt “Walking Proof” (New West, 2020)

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”