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Video: The Hanging Stars “Sweet Light”

February 13, 2024 Andrew Frolish 1
Here’s the latest single from AUK favourites, The Hanging Stars.  ‘Sweet Light’ delivers bright, shimmering guitars and uplifting, melodic vocals in the band’s distinctive style.  Halfway through, there’s a change of pace and an absorbing musical […]
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Video: The Hanging Stars “Let Me Dream of You”

December 21, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0
The Hanging Stars finish the year with this epic-sounding song.  Full of thudding drums and sweeping guitar, ‘Let Me Dream of You’ soars, like a dream flying into the cosmos.  There are gorgeous four-part harmonies and […]
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Live Review: Wood Festival, Braziers Park, South Oxfordshire – 19th to 21st May 2023

May 30, 2023 Darren Lumbroso 0
The Wood Festival is a relatively small, family friendly affair organised by brothers Joe and Robin Bennett. It’s held in the grounds of Braziers Park, a gothic mansion nestling in the hills of South Oxfordshire, which […]
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Live Review: Americana Music Association UK Awards, Hackney Empire, London – 26th January 2023

February 2, 2023 Jonathan Aird 2
It’s a cliché but none the less true, that all good things have to come to an end and their annual awards show is the capping event of the Americana Music Association UK’s annual conference, held […]
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Live Review: UK Americana Music Week, Loose Music Takeover @The AMAUK Showcase, Paper Dress Vintage, Hackney, London – 24th January 2023

February 2, 2023 KC Vines 0
Remember live indoor music festivals, the ones that get held in the winter, when it’s raining or snowing outside? January ‘21 and ’22 put paid to these. They got replaced by the online “live” performances that […]

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The night opened with Bassie Gracie, a bold spoken word poet grounded in hope, proclaiming that making art can be the remedy to worry. This Celtic-and-proud waif delivered rhythmic anti-racism with barely veiled anger at the […]
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The Montvales “Path Of Totality”

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Folk-tinged harmonies and sophisticated indie-pop for turbulent times. Sally Buice and Molly Rochelson are originally from Knoxville, Tennessee – together they make up The Montvales. During their middle school years, the duo started out by busking […]
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Pat Carter, singer/songwriter of acclaimed alt-country band Rodeo FM, and his partner in crime, Luis de Cicco, head man of hill country blues combo Caboose, will hit the road again in April 2026, promoting their new […]

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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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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

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 […]

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Turn Up the Heat! Here in France, June has been all about rising temperatures, both meteorologically and politically. As I am British, let’s start with the weather first. As I’m sure most will know, France has […]
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Speedbuggy USA “Kick Out The Twang” (Wagon Wheel, 2018)

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Speedbuggy USA are a classic sounding, country-rock and roll band coming out of Los Angeles with their newest release ‘Kick Out The Twang’. Taking inspiration from country acts like Buck Owens, Merle Haggard and American life […]
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