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Album Review: Daddy Long Legs Release 4th Studio Album – Street Sermons

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Australia continues to carve out a rich tradition of excellent blues musicians and artists, a history which stretches back into the 1950’s and continues to this very day, and is seemingly going from strength to strength. To that end, winners of the solo/duo section of the 2024 Sydney Blues Challenge, Nathan Beretta and Dan Sullivan …

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Still riding on the coat-tails of his win in the 2023 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee, Frank Sultana has kept busy writing and recording, with the resultant The Ghosts of Sun 2023 being quickly followed up by this masterful release, Have Band, Will Travel. While largely steeped in blues tradition, this album also nods …

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Bones Shake are a scuzzy, fuzz enthused garage rock trio from Manchester. Today they announce their third LP Purge, set for release on Sister9 Recordings on 4 October, and to accompany the news BSM is pleased to bring you the premiere of the video for ‘Let Go.’ Bones Shake play everything to the extreme; violent …

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So it came to pass that we finally made our way to the final day. There is a sense of relief, coupled with the same sense of excitement that you feel on each of the other days as you await the day, pensively looking forward to your chosen artists (or the sometime, inevitable changes of …

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Traditionally, Bluesfest Byron Bay commences on the Thursday before Easter, and goes through until Easter Monday, providing adoring crowds a full 5 day music extravaganza. However, in the last two years, and since recovering from shutdowns to its’ 2020 and 2021 festivals, Bluesfest Byron Bay has rewarded its’ early-bird campers, who arrive on the Wednesday …

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Grammy Award winning bluesman, Cedric Burnside returns with his latest long-play offering, Hill Country Love, 14 tracks of authentic Mississippi hill country blues which is the follow-up to his Grammy Award winning album of 2021, I Be Trying. Not content to sit on his laurels, the album sees Burnside digging into both his personal life …

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We are honoured to premiere the new track ‘Gold Drips’ from Naarm/Melbourne chanteuse Charlie Lane. We are taken on a smooth dappling journey in this soul-inflected track that soars feely in the atmosphere like an sea bird, punctuated by a fuzzy wild guitar break and an insistent driving rhythm. Co-written and produced by Adam Jack …

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Guitar-slinger, Albert Cummings has written and recorded his third album for release on his own indie label imprint, Ivy Music Company, and will be his eleventh overall album in a career spanning back to the 1990’s. Cummings began his musical journey as a self-taught banjo player, but soon progressed to guitar after seeing Stevie Ray …

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After 35 years, the uber cool The Wreckery are back and sounding as suave and brooding as ever in their brilliant new album ‘Fake is Forever’ released through Golden Robot Records. The legendary Australian rock outfit has made an astounding return: it has been a long-awaited release, and the band does not disappoint. This record is a …

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Following on from the 2022 release of the acclaimed SUN Sessions album (recorded at the legendary Sun Studios in Memphis), Checkerboard Lounge have just announced the upcoming release of Roller Coaster on the 8th December, with the new album being co-produced by Jeff Lang and released via Cheersquad Records. The album is preceded by the …

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