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Live Review: Far From Saints, Tyne Theatre & Opera House, Newcastle upon Tyne – 19th November 2023

November 29, 2023 Viv Fish 1

Having reviewed their debut, eponymous album earlier this year it was a sheer delight to see Far From Saints live in the Grade I listed Tyne Theatre & Opera House in Newcastle upon Tyne. The stunning […]

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Far From Saints “Far From Saints”

July 21, 2023 Viv Fish 0

It’s only Patty Lynn, Dwight Baker and Kelly Jones, FFS. Not one to rest on his laurels, and although he has never even gone away, Kelly Jones is enjoying something of a renaissance right now. With […]

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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 […]

Album Reviews

Frazey Ford “U Kin B The Sun” (Arts & Crafts, 2020)

February 28, 2020 0

After starting out with the retro folk band the Be Good Tanyas, for her third solo album since 2010, Vancouver-based artist Frazey Ford has all but completely eliminated the Americana influences that permeated her previous two […]

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Philip Rambow “Canadiana” (Fretsore Records, 2020)

April 30, 2020 0

‘Canadiana’ is the follow up to 2015’s ‘Whatever Happened To Phil Rambow?’ and his Philip Rambow’s debut for Fretsore Records, the label behind releases by My Darling Clementine and Lily Garland. Rambow is originally from Montreal […]

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Video: William Harries Graham “Philadelphia”

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The new single from Austin-based William Harries Graham is a gorgeously intimate and affecting song. There’s such a feeling of drama in the opening notes of guitar and then, when Graham begins to sing, he pulls […]

Live Review: Far From Saints, Tyne Theatre & Opera House, Newcastle upon Tyne – 19th November 2023

Far From Saints “Far From Saints”

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