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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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Track: Miya Folick – Talking with Strangers

Talking with Strangers is a new release from the Santa Ana, California singer-songwriter Miya Folick. After growing up in a Buddist family, music was always an important part of her…

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Track: Kodaline return with new single, The One

Taking a lead from Sliding Doors and a myriad of dating website ads, the video to Kodaline’s new single The One, has a real ‘will they won’t they’, sniff of…

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Meet: Jessica Davies from Smoke Fairies

After a critically acclaimed debut album Smoke Fairies seemed on the fast track to success but a more a muted response to their second record Blood Speaks sparked a crisis…

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Track: Meesh – Lake/Endings/Glenn

I first came across Meesh last December, attracted in a sort of anti-Mumford and Sons fashion by their self-labelling of their music as anti-folk. Despite this label, their music was…

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News: Final Cambridge Folk Festival line-up announced

Singing Scottish twins The Proclaimers are the latest big name added to the Cambridge Folk Festival bill joining veteran peacenik Joan Baez, posh troubadour Frank Turner, Joan Armatrading and Wilko…

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Album Review: Stornoway – Bonxie

Oxford four-piece Stornoway are back with a new album called ‘Bonxie’, released on 13th April through Cooking Vinyl. It’s the first of Stornoway’s albums to take the services of a…

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Track: Jenny Hval releases That Battle Is Over, ahead of her new album Apocalypse, Girl

Already the veteran of albums under her own name and her guise of Rockettothesky, as well as being the singer of gothic metal band Shellyz Raven in her younger days,…

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