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Landing in 1998 Golden Smog’s second album distilled all the promise of the debut “Down by the Old Mainstream” into a cogent musical collaboration taken way beyond the initial excitement of collaborating with friends and co- […]
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Soul Asylum “Hurry Up and Wait” (Blue Élan Records, 2020)

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Soul Asylum, the Grammy award-winning band, are back for the first time in four years with their album ‘Hurry Up and Wait’, sporting a different line-up to their most successful era of the early 90s, but […]

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

March 11, 2026 0
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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The Wave Pictures “Gained/Lost”

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Ambitious, dream-soaked pop that reaches high but rarely quite lands. There’s something immediately intriguing about Gained/Lost. On paper, the ingredients are enticing: the literate jangle of The Smiths, the wide-eyed psych-pop glow of The Flaming Lips, […]
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Lynn Miles “A Bouquet of Black Flowers”

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Pick of the bunch from Canadian troubadour in late career full bloom. Lynn Miles may not yet be among your ‘top ten Canadian songwriters’, but A Bouquet of Black Flowers may be about to change that. […]

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

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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 […]
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Interview: Lady Nade on being involved in a Netflix drama, inspiration, identity and mental health in music

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Runner-up in our readers’ poll for Best UK Artist in 2025, Lady Nade has steadily built a reputation as one of the most distinctive and emotionally resonant voices in UK roots music. Blending jazz, Americana, folk, […]

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