The Americana Music Association has announced its year-end Top 10 & Top 100 Albums of the Year. The Top 100 albums are based on those records reported to the Americana Airplay Chart during the period of November 16, 2010 through November […]
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This retro recording thing. It’s pissing me off a little bit. Why would you spend all that time and money on accumulating ‘vintage’ equipment and spend so little time on writing good songs? A lovely sounding but empty record will […]
Matt Jennings blew through L.A. this last week, opening for Bombino at The Mint, and it was remarkable. Remarkable, I say! I’ve loved Matt’s music and its international flavors for years (He’s from Minnesota too. We pretty much all get […]
Dawes – Nothing Is Wrong Agnes Obel – Philharmonics Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues James Vincent McMorrow – Early In the Morning Wilco – The Whole Love Black Joe Lewis – Scandalous Ryan Adams – Ashes & Fire Alela Diane […]
Paste Magazine calls is “an exhaustive four-CD collection of Bob Dylan cover songs” that features a “ridiculously eclectic array of artists”. Stereogum, which started to stream the four CD tribute(January 24th release date) this week (sorry…it seems gone today), says […]
Compiling a list of my favorite albums of the year is always a welcomed exercise, because it forces me to go back through all the albums that moved me, got me dancing, or changed my perspective over the last 12 […]
As I write this, I’m listening – perhaps for the five hundredth time – to Paul Simon’s Songwriter collection. When disc one ends, I’ll get up, walk over there, and press play again. Much to the chagrin of my girlfriend, I’ve been […]
When singer/songwriter/guitarist Raul Malo recorded an updated version of the old Christmas standard “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” he was inspired by the presidential candidates’ alarming political assault criticizing the return of U.S troops from Iraq. Malo probably didn’t expect […]
Maudy Tree, the second album by Edinburgh based four piece Blue Flint, is the latest excellent contemporary folk album to find its way to us,writes Joe Lepper from Neonfiller.com. Signed to Johnny Rock Records, who also have Southern Tenant […]
JT Nero & Russell Jumping Hot Club, Cluny II, Newcastle Alan Harrison JT Nero’s songs are completely different from anything else you’ve ever heard; they can be quite ethereal and don’t always make sense as they are […]
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