Mumford and Sons

Classic Clips: Mumford & Sons “I Will Wait”, Edinburgh 2010

September 19, 2025 Jonny Brick 1

When I was a student up in Edinburgh, I was on nodding acquaintance with Marcus Mumford, who was playing open mic pub gigs with songs that would eventually be sung in arenas and at Glastonbury. He […]

Mumford & Sons return to their roots (well… a pond actually) with fourth album “RUSHMERE”

January 23, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

Mumford & Sons have announced details of their new album, “RUSHMERE”, their first since 2018’s “Delta”. It is set for release on 28th March through Island EMI Group. To coincide with this announcement, the band has […]

Something for the long weekend: Marcus Mumford “Cannibal”

September 16, 2022 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it for another week dear reader. We won’t be updating on Monday sorry although from the looks of things we won’t be doing anything at all on Monday other than mourning and playing Two […]

Classic Clips: Mumford And Sons, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Old Crow Medicine Show “This Train Is Bound For Glory” – New Orleans, April 27, 2011

September 16, 2022 Michael Macy 0

The magic of music is most accessible live. There is something inexplicable, but experiential, that happens between the musicians and audiences. Some musicians know every note they’re going to play before going on stage. They have […]

Mumford and Sons Winston Marshall leaves band after praising (very) right-wing author

June 25, 2021 Mark Whitfield 2

Winston Marshall, the guitarist cum banjoist with Mumford & Sons, has announced he’s quitting the band following controversy around his support for the book ‘Unmasked‘ which decries the leftist protest movement Antifa among other positions; 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 […]

Album Reviews

The Mammals “Nonet” (Soundly, 2020)

June 3, 2020 0

‘Nonet’ is compelling listening for these locked down times. In their blend of classic folk and Americana The Mammals, Mike Merenda and Ruth Ungar plus an ensemble of seven, ask searching questions about our environment and […]

Album Reviews

Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer “All New”

August 31, 2022 0

These three veteran Grammy winners look set to win another one with this excellent collection of bluegrass and good old fashioned folk songs. Tom Paxton, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, surely needs no introduction here […]

News

Americana Music Association (UK) Awards – the results

January 28, 2022 0

The Americana Music Association (UK) held their award show last night – with a reduced audience at The Sound Lounge and a larger audience for the live stream on Youtube (which you can catch here). There’s […]

Classic Clips: Mumford & Sons “I Will Wait”, Edinburgh 2010

Mumford & Sons return to their roots (well… a pond actually) with fourth album “RUSHMERE”

Something for the long weekend: Marcus Mumford “Cannibal”

Classic Clips: Mumford And Sons, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Old Crow Medicine Show “This Train Is Bound For Glory” – New Orleans, April 27, 2011

Mumford and Sons Winston Marshall leaves band after praising (very) right-wing author

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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