Van Plating

Video Premiere: Van Plating “Orange Blossom Child”

March 11, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

Here’s the video premiere of ‘Orange Blossom Child’ – a love letter to her childhood from Florida’s Van Plating. The shuffling rhythms and stirring guitar hook you in. Van Plating’s catchy vocal performance, reinforced by melodic […]

Mince Pie Mondays – is that a thing now?

December 18, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

What’s this? What’s this? Mince Pie Mondays…could it be…can it really be… back-to-back Christmas tunes in an Americana / Folk mode? Yes, it is. It really is. You’ll recall that last Friday we had the last […]

Interview: Van Plating explains why she is an Orange Blossom child

November 1, 2023 Martin Johnson 0

How to bring a sense of Florida to a mix of indie pop, bluegrass and country. To most Brits, Florida is viewed as a holiday destination, but it also has a respectable music tradition as it […]

Track Premiere: Ed Snodderly with Van Plating “Better Just Ride The Mule”

October 26, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Following hard on the heels of Ed Snodderly‘s latest album ‘Chimney Smoke‘ comes this stripped down version of the album’s lead off song (which by coincidence we also premiered back in June). On this new version […]

Van Plating “Orange Blossom Child”

October 5, 2023 Ljubinko Zivkovic 1

With ‘Orange Blossom Child,’ Florida’s Van Plating comes up with her most mature album yet. If you have what ‘Orange Blossom Child,’ the title of Van Plating’s new album refers to, you would have to know about […]

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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 […]

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February 22, 2017 0

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Live Reviews

Review: Black Deer Festival 2019, Eridge Park, Sussex

June 26, 2019 2

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Videos

Video: Steven Adams & The French Drops “Ex Future”

May 10, 2018 0

Late of The Broken Family Band and The Singing Adams, this is the new single from Steven Adams’s latest project, taken from their new album ‘Virtue Signals,’ out now on Hudson Records.

Video Premiere: Van Plating “Orange Blossom Child”

Mince Pie Mondays – is that a thing now?

Interview: Van Plating explains why she is an Orange Blossom child

Track Premiere: Ed Snodderly with Van Plating “Better Just Ride The Mule”

Van Plating “Orange Blossom Child”

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”

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