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live review: levellers and grace petrie. manchester academy 16/11/2025

Some gigs feel like routine stops on a tour. Others feel like communal events with their own emotional gravity. Tonight falls undeniably into the second category. Long before the first…

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News: HOBOFOPO announce first 6 artists for the 2025 festival in Hobart in November

The folk-punk hobos are back at it again for the ninth installation of HOBart’s Original FOlk Punk Orgy (HOBOFOPO). Having previously hosted international acts such as AJJ, Days ‘N’ Daze,…

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Album Review: The Paper Kites latest album, At The Roadhouse set to springboard the band to even greater heights

The Paper Kites have long been teasing this new album, At The Roadhouse, with the band issuing five of its’ songs prior to its’ release on 1st September. The Sweet…

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Review: The Waterboys – Where The Action Is

Following on from 2015’s lauded album, Modern Blues and 2017’s top ten-reaching double album Out Of All This Blue, on May 24th The Waterboys will release their new album Where…

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See: Great Lake Swimmers reveal video for The Talking Wind, plus new album news

Out this friday, 13th April is a new six track EP titled side effects from acclaimed indie-folk/rock band Great Lake Swimmers. It features new new songs “The Talking Wind”, “Falling…

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Track / Video

Track: P.J. Harvey and Harry Escott – An Acre of Land

The legendary musician, songwriter, artist and poet, P.J. Harvey, has just released a collaboration with British composer Harry Escott called ‘An Acre of Land’, the theme to mystery/thriller Dark River,…

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Album Review: Richard Thompson – Acoustic Classics II

Richard Thompson has been performing his particular brand of folk rock for the best part of five decades now, and his career has seen him regularly release critically acclaimed albums.…

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Track / Video

Track: Deer Tick announce two albums, release a track from each – Sea of Clouds / It’s a whale

Like buses (yeah I know, I should go for a less stayed cliche, but come on – you can’t beat a decent cliche sometimes) you wait for ages an album…

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Album Review: Laura Marling – Semper Femina

By Pete Wilding It bears reminding ourselves – however disconcerting it might be – that Laura Marling has just turned 27. Nine years of unique, personal creativity on a broad…

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See: Lanterns on the lake reveal video for ‘The Crawl’, plus your dates

Lanterns On The Lake have been quiet of late, however, they’ve seen fit to furnish us with this sumptuous video for ‘The Crawl’, one of the stand out tracks from…

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