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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass unveils initial line up plus associated shows

July 30, 2026 Richard Parkinson 0
Live stream available if you can’t make it! Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (HSB) has shared the initial lineup for its 2026 edition in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park from Friday 2nd October to Sunday 4th October 2026. […]

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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass unveils initial line up plus associated shows

July 30, 2026 0
Live stream available if you can’t make it! Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (HSB) has shared the initial lineup for its 2026 edition in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park from Friday 2nd October to Sunday 4th October 2026. […]
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The indefatigable Richard Thompson introduces his Hippies, Thugs and Heroes in October

July 30, 2026 0
Richard Thompson will release his 20th studio album, Hippies, Thugs and Heroes, on October 16th via New West Records. The 12-track set was produced by Thompson and James Frazee and recorded in Weehawken, New Jersey. It […]
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Kate Prascher “Thousand A Million” – a lot, anyway

July 30, 2026 0
Kate Prascher’s new single Thousand A Million entwines the physical with the metaphysical in an intriguing and beguiling folk song that plays with notions of time and space (no, not like Dr Who).  Kate Prascher describes […]

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  • The indefatigable Richard Thompson introduces his Hippies, Thugs and Heroes in October
  • Kate Prascher “Thousand A Million” – a lot, anyway
  • Video: Elanor Moss “The Way That It Feels” – A song about not turning away, but turning towards
  • Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Matraca Berg
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Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”

July 29, 2026 0
American Aquarium appear to be on a creative roll with their latest album, New Ways To Lose, getting great reviews even though it is their twentieth album in as many years. Added to this is the […]
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Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories

July 28, 2026 0
“Radiate a smile if we’re only here for a short while / no we don’t want to miss a day / cus there’s so much we must do,” sings David Keenan on Radiate a Smile, four […]
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Interview: The Lives of Famous Men take the elevator upward

July 24, 2026 0
End Times Elevator Music is a special record to behold. From the Link Wray fuzz guitar rumbles on opener No Alarm to the title track closer, which arrives like Ben Schneider and Brendan Urie collaborated, there […]

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Video: Kirsty Lee Akers “Skeletons”

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A brilliant video here for the new single taken from Australian Kirsty Lee Akers’ latest album ‘Under My Skin’.  The song matches it, with the judgemental and hypocritical nicely skewered, as they should be.
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Frankie Lee announces UK dates for September

July 9, 2019 0
Following the release of his new album ‘Stillwater’ which we described as “a cohesive whole that exudes a unique and vivid artistic touch”, Frankie Lee has announced that he will be returning to the UK in […]
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Video Premiere: Nathan Jacques “Drifting”

September 5, 2022 0
Nathan Jacques’ new single, ‘Drifting’, begins with ethereal, sliding notes, immediately engaging the listener in a song that is, quite simply, beautiful.  This is stuff to get lost in.  At over six minutes, the song allows the […]

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