The Paper Kites

Live Review: The Paper Kites + Bess Atwell, Electric Bristol – 23rd February 2026

March 4, 2026 Peter Churchill 1

Queues around the block prior to the doors opening at, if the signage was to be believed, Bristol’s premier independent music venue, suggested that the small UK tour of an established Aussie band, had not gone […]

The Paper Kites “If You Go There, I Hope You Find It”

January 19, 2026 Peter Churchill 3

Early album of the year contender from a long-established Aussie five-piece. A bold statement for a new year. The seventh studio album by Australian band The Paper Kites, ‘If You Go There, I Hope You Find […]

The Paper Kites to release seventh album, announce UK/Ireland early 2026 tour

September 24, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

Alternative folk band The Paper Kites have announced their seventh studio album, “If You Go There, I Hope You Find It”, to be released on 23rd January 2026 via Nettwerk Music Group. ”If You Go There, […]

The Paper Kites art work for At The Roadhouse

The Paper Kites “At The Roadhouse”

August 29, 2023 Richard Parkinson 0

A warm and intimate record which should delight The Paper Kites fanbase. The Paper Kites last album ‘Roses’ (2021), their fifth if you consider the third and fourth records separately, was a record of collaborations with […]

The Paper Kites “Roses”

February 19, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 0

Gorgeous, contemplative piece undermined by a couple of poor song choices The Paper Kites are from Australia and ‘Roses’ is the release that celebrates their tenth year of releasing gentle ‘slow core’ indie records, all melancholy […]

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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 […]

Interviews

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 […]

Interviews

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

Wire & Wool “Wire & Wool” (Independent, 2016)

October 2, 2016 0

Wire & Wool are a lively 7-piece from Dundee, Scotland. Formed in 2014 they combine elements of bluegrass, folk and country with energy akin to punk. As with their American counterparts, North Carolina band Chatham County Line […]

Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed – week 15

April 28, 2021 0

Sat in a pub garden literally drinking it all in On the Monday when pubs were allowed to reopen it just so happened that I was on a road trip. Not content with having a shed […]

Videos

Video: Aoife O’Donovan “All My Friends”

June 13, 2024 0

We continue our video-celebration of our summer of festivals with a recent single from the great Aoife O’Donovan, who is performing at Cambridge Folk Festival on Saturday 27th July 2024. Get your tickets here and you’ll be […]

Live Review: The Paper Kites + Bess Atwell, Electric Bristol – 23rd February 2026

The Paper Kites “If You Go There, I Hope You Find It”

The Paper Kites to release seventh album, announce UK/Ireland early 2026 tour

The Paper Kites “At The Roadhouse”

The Paper Kites “Roses”

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”