Rosenblume

Rosenblume “Rosenblume”

October 20, 2021 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

Affable, if slightly uneven, soulful Americana. Six years on from his first EP, one thing is re-confirmed from the get-go on Liverpool-born Rosenblume’s long-awaited debut LP: he has one hell of a voice. On the downside, […]

Video Premiere: Rosenblume “Knight in Shining Armour”

July 20, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0

Check out the video premiere of ‘Knight in Shining Armour’ from Liverpool’s Roseblume. It’s an earnest song of unrequited love, disarming in its heartfelt and direct sincerity. There’s a restless rhythm and a foot-tapping beat, creating […]

Track Premiere: Rosenblume “In The Long Run”

February 3, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

Liverpool troubadour Rosenblume is releasing ‘In the Long Run’ on Friday, but we’ve a special sneak-listen for you today. It’s a song about being in it for the long haul – this is no flash-in-the-pan. ‘In […]

Summertyne Americana Festival – Sunday, Free Stages, The Sage – Gateshead, 23rd July 2017

August 3, 2017 Rudie Hayes 0

On the banks of the Tyne stands the silver bauble that is the Sage, its otherworldly structure home this weekend to some world class performers, surely covered elsewhere on these pages. The bit that always interests […]

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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”

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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

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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 […]

Videos

Video Premiere: Ryan Kennedy “A Lifetime” (Unplugged)

July 13, 2023 1

Here’s the video premiere of the gorgeous ‘A Lifetime’ from Québécois singer-songwriter Ryan Kennedy. Following the critical success of his first two albums, 2015’s ‘Home Fires’ and 2017’s ‘Love Is Gold’, Kennedy released a third record, ‘Libertine’, […]

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UK Americana Awards 2020 adds Shingai to its line-up

January 14, 2020 0

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Rod Picott lands in UK for tour next month

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Rod Picott has been recording for 17 years now which is almost as long as this century’s been around, his debut album ‘Tiger Tom Dixon’s Blues’ putting a nail in the coffin of his construction career […]

Rosenblume “Rosenblume”

Video Premiere: Rosenblume “Knight in Shining Armour”

Track Premiere: Rosenblume “In The Long Run”

Summertyne Americana Festival – Sunday, Free Stages, The Sage – Gateshead, 23rd July 2017

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