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Track: Louien – ‘Fire’: a track of ethereal grace teases for next month’s EP

WITH her No Tomorrow EP due out a month from now, Norwegian indie-folkie Louien has one final come-hither single to share with us, after the bold country rock of “Better…

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See: Sara Bug – ‘Back In Nashville’: sweetly yearning, old-skool country from a want-away heart

COMING atcha outta Richmond, Virginia, EggHunt Records is sure to be blowin’ up big time in an old skool, proper country music way when latest signing Sara Bug’s album drops…

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News: The Mountain Goats announce an album for late June, laid down in Muscle Shoals; hear the warm country rock of ‘Mobile’

THEY’RE nothing if not prolific and industrious, John Darnielle’s much-loved exponents of Americana, The Mountain Goats. It was only a year or so ago that John was in conversation with NPR about…

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Track: Louien – ‘Deep Within’: Nordicana that gently, effortlessly steals your heart away

KNOW this: Miranda Solberg, the Norwegian alt.folk singer who steps out into the music world as Louien, and who is about to release an EP, No Tomorrow, for Oslo’s Jansen…

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Premiere: Wes Tirey – ‘Bang The Drum Slowly’: haunting, beautiful Americana with plains dust under its nails

WES TIREY comes to us from the arty city of Asheville, North Carolina, out in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where he’s been plying a trade in well-crafted Americana for nearly…

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News: Sub Pop unearth early Iron & Wine recordings, set for a release in early May; hear ‘Calm On The Valley’

BLOWING the dust off some buried aural treasure, Sub Pop have announced a little treat for fans of Sam Beam’s Iron & Wine: the label has brought to light a…

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Track: Rianne Downey – ‘Stand My Ground’; Scottish country riser keeps both feet firmly planted

COMING armed with a clutch of proper old-skool, downhome country tunesmithery from the east of Glasgow, Rianne Downey is singing proud and strong on what’s only her second single drop,…

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Track: Tarragon – ‘Follow The Sign’: Coventry songwriter calls on a host of greats for his shimmering debut

YOU’VE got a musical vision, a wish to create, that keeps you going through the grind of the everyday but which you can’t ever quite shift off the back burner?…

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News: Marisa Anderson and William Tyler announce an album together for Thrill Jockey; hear the title track, ‘Lost Futures’

TAKE two of the best instrumental guitarists currently working in instrumental Americana, Marisa Anderson and William Tyler; put them together in a studo; press record. It’s a simple idea, but…

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News: Nordic country singer Louien will release an EP in June; hear a first track, ‘Better Woman’

LOUIEN we touched base with just a matter of days back, in an ensemble sense, when she lined up alongside Siv Jakobsen and The Northern Belle for the Nordicana loveliness…

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