The Sheepdogs

The Sheepdogs “Keep Out of the Storm”

February 26, 2026 John Lee 0

The Sheepdogs return with another confident blast of nostalgia-fuelled, feel-good music. The Sheepdogs have now been in an amazing groove of producing upbeat, West Coast-leaning blues-rock for over twenty years. Their trademark sound manages to embrace […]

The Sheepdogs “Keep Out Of The Storm” – avoid the bad times

January 27, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0

It’s ok, dear reader, the Video Editor has okayed the use of the new, slightly animated video from The Sheepdogs, so we don’t have to worry about a disgruntled picket line preventing anyone from pressing the […]

The Sheepdogs start the next chapter with a new album in February

December 10, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

Beloved Canadian rockers The Sheepdogs announce their brand-new full-length album “Keep Out Of The Storm”, arriving February 27, 2026. The multi-platinum, four-time JUNO Award–winning band will release the album via their own label Right On Records, […]

The Sheepdogs have the UK in their sights… in November and December 2026!

November 20, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

Multi-platinum, four-time JUNO Award-winning Canadian rock band The Sheepdogs announce their return to the UK and Europe in November and December 2026 for the “Out All Night Tour”. The band kick off in Glasgow on 11 […]

The Sheepdogs “Nobody But You” – how did we get here, again?

October 8, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Here’s a thought we’ve floated a few times before – the best Southern Rock comes from Canada, and amongst Canadian protagonists, there’s no one who really touches The Sheepdogs. Why should this be? Well, through all […]

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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 […]

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Pick of the political pops: Kacey Musgraves “Oh, What A World”

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Album Reviews

Mules and Men “Roscommon County Line” (Independent, 2020)

November 30, 2020 0

Mules and Men are a four-piece band from Dublin who advertise themselves as playing progressive bluegrass. Unfortunately, this does not mean concept albums about tortured medieval wizards performed by cape clad musicians on ice. This reviewer […]

Album Reviews

Christy Moore “Flying Into Mystery”

December 9, 2021 0

Irish Troubadour’s latest album despairs for and laughs at a world that isn’t learning. A founding member of the legendary Planxty and a solo artist for over fifty years – his first release ‘Paddy on the […]

The Sheepdogs “Keep Out of the Storm”

The Sheepdogs “Keep Out Of The Storm” – avoid the bad times

The Sheepdogs start the next chapter with a new album in February

The Sheepdogs have the UK in their sights… in November and December 2026!

The Sheepdogs “Nobody But You” – how did we get here, again?

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”