I’ve got a few tracks in my collection from a variety of VA sampler albums; don’t know an awful lot about Joe Pug so I’ve come to this album with a completely fresh and open mind. The opening song, “Bright […]
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I was a late-comer to Martin Stephenson and the Daintees. I tuned in during the early ‘90s to classics that had been written in the previous decade. They were a very specific mix of political and spiritual, literary and realist. […]
“Petunia and the mother****ing Vipers. One of the best bands in the world today, of any kind.” Apologies for the language, but it is a quote from Phil Alvin. So it must be true. Marcel Petunia gave the quote to […]
I nearly didn’t write this review. It’s been over two weeks since Willie Nile played The Real Music Club in Belfast with his new album If I Was A River in his back pocket. But, some things need to be […]
How old did that microphone look? It was very vintage. Hanging from it was a kazoo taped to a ring of wire. The last time I saw Petunia & the Vipers earlier in 2014, I described them as Americana painted […]
Irish duo The Lost Brothers write old-time songs. They take their musical influences from home, then bluegrass-and-folk them up. They “Americana” them, then they add harmonies as sweet as local honey with a drop of dark chocolate, and serve them to […]
Latter Day Sinner is Matt McGinn’s second studio album. It mixes folk with Americana, crafting landscapes and small silhouettes that try not to be seen. The acoustic folk-rock singer from a Mourne Mountains village in the North of Ireland released […]
It was a packed house at the Black Box. Anais Mitchell was in Belfast supported by Rachel Ries, and tickets were scarce. Ries was the first on stage. Her album Ghost of a Gardener was released early this year. On […]
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