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Live Review: Marcus King / Ida Mae – The Academy, Dublin 27.03.2023

Words Caitríona Ní Dhúnlaing / Photos Ian Mc Donnell: ‘Who loves ya Baby,’ remarks Marcus King – the South Carolina riff based blues-rocker, half an hour into a two-hour, nineteen-song…

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Album review: Lake Street Dive delight with ‘Obviously’

HYPOTHETICALLY speaking, we were all waiting for this album to drop. Well, I was at least. Ever since I heard the now-viral acoustic cover of Jackson 5’s “I Want You…

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SEE: Drive-By Truckers share visuals for their cover of Ramones’ ‘The KKK Took My Baby Away’

ATHENS, Georgia’s next most famous musical sons, Drive-By Truckers, have shared a lo-fi video for their cover of Ramones’ classic “The KKK Took My Baby Away”. Have a watch below. The…

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SEE: XIXA – ‘Genesis Of Gaea’: desert rock groove with superstition announces Tucsonians’ second

TOTING a very fine line in dusty, Latin American/goth/soundtrack-informed desert rock and coming atcha out of Tucson, Arizona, men in black XIXA are ready to roll out the follow-up to…

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TRACK: Nick Faber – ‘Soon You’ll Be Mine’: bringing back the bayou

SOMETIMES inspiration hits in the most unexpected circumstances: a chance trigger, if you will, that sets you on a new course. And so it was with Fabyl and Appleseed Cast…

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Track: Lee Bains III + The Glory Fires – Underneath the sheets of white noise

Underneath the sheets of White Noise is the latest track to be taken from the new album from Lee Bain III + The Glory Fires, Youth Detention which drops on…

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Album Review: Blackberry Smoke- Like An Arrow

Only a year has passed since the release of an album from the Blackberry Smoke camp, yet they’re already at it again with their fifth studio album, Like An Arrow.…

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Not Forgotten: The Black Crowes – The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion

By mid 1991 The Black Crowes were poised on the edge of huge international success, but by the release of this sophomore album in 1992 the rising tide of grunge…

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See: J. Roddy Walston & The Business UK Dates, plus new video

We got all enthusiastic about the rather addictive Southern rock of J Roddy Walston & The Business before, with its low slung riffs and scuffed up basslines, and Roddy himself,…

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