Tag Archives: 2015
Album Artwork / Album Reviews / Alt-Country / Americana / Blues / Videos
ALBUM REVIEW: James Thomson ~ Cold Moon
James Thomson’s debut album was an impressive calling card, a introduction to a talented songwriter already sounding beyond his years in terms of his songs and their lived-in delivery. The promise of that first sprawling collection of songs has been refined and stylistically expanded on the exceptional follow-up Cold Moon. The balance and symmetry of … Continue reading
Alt-Country / Folk / New Music / Videos
NEW MUSIC: Josh Rennie-Hynes ~ Land Of Clouds
Brisbane’s Josh Rennie-Hynes has released a clip for a new song ‘Land Of Clouds’, filmed as part of the Black Bear Sessions. Accompanied by Liam Gerner and Caitlin Harnett, the track we’re guessing is a love song to New Zealand where Rennie-Hynes toured last year and indeed is heading back to again next month (see tour poster … Continue reading
ALBUM REVIEW: JW Linton ~ King Of The Jungle
JW Linton hits straighter musical lines on his debut solo album than he does with Sydney band Ranger Spacey yet these ten songs are a rich collection of folk and country rock. From acoustic beginnings the songs have evolved into rich compositions that include horns, piano, pedal steel and strings that recall Calexico and Wilco. … Continue reading
Album Artwork / Album Reviews / Alt-Country / Americana / Country / Folk / Rdio / Stream
ALBUM REVIEW: Marlon Williams ~ Marlon Williams
From his early releases with The Unfaithful Ways and through three duo albums with fellow New Zealander Delaney Davidson, Marlon Williams has always been tagged as one to watch. Though this solo debut has been a long time coming he has toured and built a strong reputation as a live performer across Australia and NZ … Continue reading
NEWS: The Weeping Willows Announce Crowdfunding Campaign for New Album
In 2012 Melbourne duo The Weeping Willows (Laura Coates and Andrew Wrigglesworth) released a fine debut album Till The North Wind Blows. Now they are ready to record its followup and intend to do so in Los Angeles, California. To make it happen they’ve launched a Possible crowdfunding campaign to raise the necessary funds to complete … Continue reading
Interviews / Six Strings / Stream / Tour
SIX STRINGS: Peasant Moon
Sydney duo Peasant Moon (Harvey Russell & Josie Rothwell) have been crafting their music and playing live together over the last 18 months and now they have a debut EP Fading in the Light ready for release in late May. Theirs is an Alt. country sound interlaced with flashes of folk music; always high on … Continue reading
Alt-Country / Americana / New Music / News / Stream
The Weekly Round-Up: May 15th, 2015
International news has been high on our radar at the end of this week with the announcement of the nominees for the Americana Honors and Awards to be held at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville in September. many of the expected nominees are there – Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell and Lucinda Williams whose album of … Continue reading
NEW MUSIC: Sara Syms ~ Way Back Home
Nashville’s Sara Syms has a new album called Way Back Home due for release this September and she has been kind enough to share the title track with us. The song has just the right balance of shimmer and solid rhythm section beneath Syms’ rich ache of a voice. Continue reading
ALBUM REVIEW: Catherine Britt ~ Boneshaker
Drawing on a range of country styles from Americana to traditional, pop to rock, Catherine Britt has produced a strong collection of songs on her sixth album. The opening title track gets things off to a rollicking and raw start before the beautiful ache of the string-laden ‘Good To Be Bad’ slows things down. From there … Continue reading
VIDEO: Ruby Boots ~ Wrap Me In A Fever
With her debut LP Solitude fresh on the shelves Ruby Boots has also just released the video clip for the single ‘Wrap Me In A Fever’. To celebrate and promote the new album she is about to play a run of dates across WA, VIC, NSW and QLD starting this week in her home state of WA. … Continue reading
Our Favourite Albums: Jan – Apr 2015
Yep, we’re a third of the way through the year already so we thought we’d have a look back at our ten favourite albums that have been released in 2015. In no particular these are the records that have regularly been on the stereo and provided many of the musical highlights of our year so far. You can hit … Continue reading
Album Artwork / Album Reviews / Alt-Country / Rock / Stream
ALBUM REVIEW: Raised By Eagles ~ Diamonds In The Bloodstream
On their second album Raised By Eagles eschew some of the ragged country rock moves of their debut and head for classic songwriting territory with excursions into power pop and acoustic balladry. The intimate and explicitly emotional storytelling of ‘Sugar Cane’ and the warm breezy sway of ‘Honey’ act as counterpoints to Window Seat’s Ryan … Continue reading
ALBUM REVIEW: Ruby Boots ~ Solitude
Ruby Boots is the nom de plume for Perth’s Bex Chilcott and though this is wholly a solo album in terms of songwriting and musical personality she has corralled the talents of a number of accomplished individuals on her spellbinding debut full length release. Co-starring roles go to Vicki Thorn (The Waifs), Jordie Lane, Davey … Continue reading
Album Artwork / Album Reviews / Blues / Folk / Psychedelic
ALBUM REVIEW: Liam Gale & The Ponytails ~ The Lonely Throne
Over the last few years Liam Gale’s sound has evolved into a darker and more hypnotic form of psychedelic folk and blues music, culminating in the majestic and hypnotic The Lonely Throne. There are shades of Devendra Barnhart and Tim Buckley in Gale’s explorations in building trance-like mantras around songs via a range of instrumentation … Continue reading
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