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Album Review: Small Feet – From Far Enough Away Everything Sounds Like the Ocean

From Far Enough Away Everything Sounds Like the Ocean is the debut album from Stockholm trio Small Feet, aka Simon Stalhamre (vocals/guitar) alongside Jacob Snavely (bass) and drummer Christopher Cantillo.…

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See: We Came as Strangers release video for ‘Still Life’

Experimental rockers We Came as Strangers have released a new video for the track Still Life, taken from their forthcoming third album, Eyedom, out on August 31st. Originally formed as…

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Album Review: Pearl TN – A Dog Called Rat

A ‘Dog called Rat’ is the second album from Pearl TN, self-styled ‘Purveyors of Mountain Pop’ with a pedigree in music spanning several decades and genres. It was recorded at…

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Live Review: Calexico – Albert Hall, Manchester – 30th April 2015

Calexico made a welcome return to the UK after a couple of years’ absence in support of their brilliant new album – Edge of The Sun – and we were there to see…

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Live Review: Justin Townes Earle – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds. 03.02.2015

Sobriety clearly agrees with Mr Townes Earle as he takes a full house on a relaxed tour through his career highlights with some unexpected detours along the way. The highly…

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Album review: Justin Townes Earle – Absent Fathers

‘Wish I could say I know you/’cause lord, I Wanna Understand/Need you to now there’s nothing I want more in this world as a man.’ If you kick off you…

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News: The Handsome Family – UK & Ireland Tour 2015

What a year this has been for Rennie and Brett Sparks. Before Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson starred in one of the most exciting and talked-about TV series of recent…

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Premiere: Fighting Caravans release video for “Bootmakers to the King”

We’ve been able to keep a close eye on Leeds quintet, The Fighting Caravans. Preferring to stay out of the live setting while they hone both their sounds and their…

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Boss Caine – The Rhythm and the Rhyme (Part 3 of Backseat Mafia On Tour: York)

Years ago when Gomez first emerged there would always be at least a strain of suspicion running through reviews. For the generous, the fact that this group of adolescents wrote…

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Album Review: Smoke Fairies – Ghosts

There’s something otherworldly about Smoke Fairies. Their name, taken from the Summer mist that collects in the hedgerows of the lanes in the duo’s, school friends Katherine Blamire and Jessica…

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