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Margo Cilker “Molly & Me” – and the devil’s right hand

September 23, 2026 0

Molly & Me is the latest single from the upcoming album from Margo Cilker, Little White Cross, which is out on October 9th via Fossil Records. Molly & Me starts out as a story about a teenage friendship […]

Video: Bird “The Lady Who Reads The Cards” – a strange but beautiful spiritual encounter

September 23, 2026 0

Here’s the latest single from multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Bird, aka Janie Price. The Lady Who Reads The Cards is a catchy song, full of melodic hooks that showcase the range of Bird’s clear, controlled voice. Co-written […]

Mary Gauthier “Reckoning”

September 22, 2026 2

One of our finest songwriters delivers an album for our times with consummate clarity and lyrical daring. Mary Gauthier was something of a late starter, delivering her first album when she was in her late thirties […]

Sylvie finally make a full length debut which arrives in November

September 22, 2026 2

Sylvie, the project of Los Angeles artist Ben Schwab, has announced their forthcoming album, New Season, available November 6th, 2026, via Ghostly International. Rina (feat. Alex Amen) is the single out now. Reflecting on a passing […]

Features

More People Really Should Know About: Carey Ott

September 22, 2026 0

Carey Ott is nothing if not prolific. He hails from Chicago, and he’s a multi-instrumentalist, a producer and engineer and a performer. He’s released seven albums to date as well as numerous singles. In my music […]

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More People Really Should Know About: Carey Ott
Carey Ott is nothing if not prolific. He hails from Chicago, and he’s a multi-instrumentalist, a producer and engineer and a performer. He’s released seven albums to date as well as numerous singles. In my [...]
Features
Stamping on the passion: Why AI written PR is a bad thing for music
If a music writer opens ten press releases this month, they’ll spot something odd. They all sound like the same person wrote them. Not because the artists share a publicist, or because there’s a house [...]
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For the Sake of the Song: Grateful Dead “High Time”
“You told me goodbye, how was I to know/You didn’t mean goodbye, you meant please don’t let me go?” Well. It’s the age of nostalgia, so it feels just about right to reminisce about an [...]
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Classic Clip: Alison Krauss, Shawn Colvin, Jerry Douglas “The Boxer”— Library of Congress, Washington, 2007
In 1969 Simon and Garfunkel released their masterpiece Bridge Over Troubled Water, and included in the set was the brilliant and oft-covered or performed The Boxer, written by Paul Simon in 1968. The song was [...]
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Top 10 UK Americana Albums of all time: John Lee
So today we start a new Top 10 feature, to find the best UK Americana album as voted by our writers – and we are up for the challenge and the weeks of bickering which [...]

Lisa LeBlanc announces a new album and 2027 UK dates

September 22, 2026 0

Polaris-nominated Acadian songwriter Lisa LeBlanc has announced her new album, Patchwork, which will come out on 29th January 2027 via Bonsound, and has released the lead single, A Fleeting Thought Becomes Another Fleeting Thought, with a […]

Track Premiere: Gary Marks “Where We Started”

September 22, 2026 0

On his new song, Gary Marks turns his songwriter vision on recent events in his homeland, starting from an unprecedented riot in Washington to the, perhaps, surprising eventual fallout from that event. As Marks explains: “I […]

Video: Prinz Grizzley “A Mountain to Be Tamed (The Struggling)” – There’s a devil in me waiting

September 22, 2026 0

Here’s the absorbing new single from Prinz Grizzley, also known as singer-songwriter Chris Comper. A Mountain to Be Tamed (The Struggling) has sparse beginnings, but the musical tension builds dramatically as Comper delivers an incredibly intense […]

Stamping on the passion: Why AI written PR is a bad thing for music

September 21, 2026 8

If a music writer opens ten press releases this month, they’ll spot something odd. They all sound like the same person wrote them. Not because the artists share a publicist, or because there’s a house style […]

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For the Sake of the Song: Grateful Dead “High Time”

September 21, 2026 0

“You told me goodbye, how was I to know/You didn’t mean goodbye, you meant please don’t let me go?” Well. It’s the age of nostalgia, so it feels just about right to reminisce about an old […]

Margo Cilker “Molly & Me” – and the devil’s right hand
September 23, 2026 0
Molly & Me is the latest single from the upcoming album from Margo Cilker, Little White Cross, which is out on October 9th via Fossil Records. Molly & Me starts out as a story about a teenage [...]
Video: Bird “The Lady Who Reads The Cards” – a strange but beautiful spiritual encounter
September 23, 2026 0
Here’s the latest single from multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Bird, aka Janie Price. The Lady Who Reads The Cards is a catchy song, full of melodic hooks that showcase the range of Bird’s clear, controlled voice. [...]
Track Premiere: Gary Marks “Where We Started”
September 22, 2026 0
On his new song, Gary Marks turns his songwriter vision on recent events in his homeland, starting from an unprecedented riot in Washington to the, perhaps, surprising eventual fallout from that event. As Marks explains: [...]
Video: Prinz Grizzley “A Mountain to Be Tamed (The Struggling)” – There’s a devil in me waiting
September 22, 2026 0
Here’s the absorbing new single from Prinz Grizzley, also known as singer-songwriter Chris Comper. A Mountain to Be Tamed (The Struggling) has sparse beginnings, but the musical tension builds dramatically as Comper delivers an incredibly [...]
Brown Wimpenny “Shady Grove” – chugs like a fast train
September 21, 2026 0
This latest single from Brown Wimpenny heralds the Autumn into Winter tour by the band alongside an ever-changing roster of artists from the same Broadside Hacks record label. The song came into their repertoire in [...]

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