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New Music: Dreampop quartet I Know Leopard release new single Close My Eyes

I wrote about I Know Leopard, after the release of their debut single, ‘Picture Perfect’ late last year and saw it as a perfect antidote to the Northern Hemisphere’s winter.…

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Meet: Fairport Convention’s Dave Pegg

Folk music is as hip now as it has ever been so it’s timely that Fairport Convention are back on the road because they completely revolutionised this most traditional of…

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Video: Samuel Ford records exclusive session for Backseat Mafia

London based, but born in Rye, Sussex, Samuel Ford has been performing only a short time, but he’s spent his life immersing himself in music. Ahead of his debut EP,…

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Meet: Fink: music business is a big gamble

In the world where music is a product of consumption, often cheap, short on nutrition values, and is easy to dispose of when one gets bored of it, finding artists…

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See: Australian quartet Immigrant Union release new video for ‘In Time’

Australian quartet Immigrant Union (featuring Brent DeBoer from the Dandy Warhols) are back with a new single, “In Time”, taken from their sophomore release ‘Anyway’, which drops on May 29th.…

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News: Steve’N’Seagulls announce UK tour dates

It’s one of those videos everybody’s seen. Well, 12 million and counting anyway. There’s these hillbilly dudes, one of them arriving on a motorised grasscutter or some such contraption in…

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Album Review: 10,000 Maniacs – Twice Told Tales

‘In my Tribe’, the third album by Jamestown, New York band 10000 Maniacs released in 1987 remains in my top 50 albums of all time. The Wishing chair, their second…

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Live Review: Smoke Fairies – Hebden Bridge Trades Club, 26.4.15

After their second album got mixed reviews Smoke Fairies had a crisis of confidence questioning whether they should go on but this confident show made you glad they did. One…

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Live Review: Seasick Steve – Sheffield O2 Academy, 16.04.2015

It would have been so easy for Seasick Steve to infiltrate the crowd of his own gig. For one night only, Sheffield 02 Academy was filled with men of a…

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New Music: Cabane release debut single Sangokaku, featuring Bonnie ’Prince’ Billy & Kate Stables

Sangokaku is the perfect title for Cabane’s debut single. In Japanese it translates to ‘sea coral’, believed to hold magical healing properties, which have been completely absorbed into this music.…

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