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News: Exhibition by world renowned music photographer Karen McBride “Just South of Memphis”
If you like Blues & Americana music and photography, then you need to get yourself to Leek next week, where artist and photographer Karen McBride, is showcasing a special exhibition at the Foxlowe Arts Centre to coincide with the 2023 Leek Blues & Americana Festival. Titled ‘Just South of Memphis’ it is a unique exhibition …
News: The Wandering Hearts announce Belfast and Dublin dates
The Wandering Hearts achieved their second consecutive #1 on the UK official Americana Chart as they built on the breakthrough success of their Wild Silence debut with 2021’s self-titled second album, recorded between Woodstock and Omaha with producers Simone Felice, David Baron and Mike Mogis. The release of their EP ‘Hesperus’ in May, followed by …
Premiere: ‘Hang On To Me’ – Fallon Cush exclusively unveils achingly beautiful new single on announcement of new EP.
We are honoured to be able to bring you the new single from the esteemed outfit Fallon Cush – a Sydney band whose output we have been assiduously following for a number of years. Often described as Americana, my sense of vacuous patriotism would argue Fallon Cush have an antipodean flavour – a sort of …
Premiere: The Gleeman new single ”Marie” out 2nd of June
Following last year’s debut EP and a string of single releases, The Gleeman unveils the uplifting ‘Marie’ as the lead track from his forthcoming and highly anticipated debut album Something To Say. Having cemented a growing fan base and garnered broad radio support from previous singles culminating in January’s ‘Summer Town’, The Gleeman now embarks upon the journey …
Track: Sydney’s Fallon Cush return with the slow burning fuse of ‘Grain of Salt’
It’s been three long years since we’ve heard from Sydney outfit Fallon Cush and two years since main singer/songwriter Steve Smith released a single on his own (‘Runnin Red Lights‘), and it is great to see the band back in the saddle with new single ‘Grain Of Salt’. Labelled as Americana, I prefer to see …
News: Sunny Sweeney to play Dublin’s The Workmans Club Cellar
Currently part of the American Currents: State of the Music exhibition at The Country Music Hall of Fame alongside Luke Combs, Charley Crockett, Miranda Lambert and many more… ACM-nominated recording artist Sunny Sweeney has long been known for her uncanny ability to straddle the line of demarcation between Texas Country and Nashville Americana, but her …
Premiere: Rich Webb is walking down ‘Brunswick St’ – a streetwise and passionate tribute to the iconic Melbourne thoroughfare, with launch dates announced.
We are very pleased to premiere the vibrant thrum of ‘Brunswick St’ from troubadour Rich Webb. With traces of fellow Australian singer/songwriter Paul Kelly and an added steely spine augmented by fuzzy guitars and a driving rhythm, Webb creates his own visceral edge filled with an antipodean sheen – a sort of Bruce Springsteen stadium …
Gallery: Kilkenny Roots Festival 25th anniversary , Friday 28.04.2023 – various venues
Its that time of year again where the city of Kilkenny is taken over by music fans from all around the world, people travel near and far for this weekend of Roots / Americana / Rockabilly and more. The weekend comprising of paid shows and a large number of free shows in numerous venues around …
Premiere: Charlie & Margot goes for a ‘Joyride’ on debut album, out tomorrow
Matteo DeBenedetti looks like he’s just realised his album’s out tomorrow, but there’s no need for him to be nervous because we’ve heard it and it’s very good indeed. So good, in fact, that we’re premiering it up front! The New Jersey-based Charlie & Margot is just him – if you didn’t know, the project’s …
News; The Remedy Club announce headline show at Dublin’s The Workman’s Club 28.05.2023
The Remedy Club,, an Americana/Roots duo based in Wexford, Ireland comprising KJ McEvoy (brother of Eleanor McEvoy) and Aileen Mythen have been described as ‘Ireland’s best kept musical secret’ by HOTPRESS journalist Jackie Hayden who also described their music as “a marriage of folk and country with a hint of the blues with delicious harmonies …