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Dent May – The Big One
Well, this is a thing of beauty and wonder is it not? When making music that is adjacent to pop music, albeit a popular music that honours the standards and craftsman like processes of the past far more than the committee produced formular driven electronic pop that we hear so much of today, creating something… Read more
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Margaret Glaspy – I Am Both
Around the release of her fourth full length album, the follow up to 2023’s highly rated ‘Echo The Diamond,’ Margaret Glaspy has been musing on her place in the world as a working musician. She is turning away from notions of success that are the accepted measuring tools, thinking of what she does instead as… Read more
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Kathleen Edwards – Lighthouse Arts Centre, Halifax, Canada 1st August 2026
Kathleen Edwards does not remember her previous concert stop off in Halifax with much warmth. Such is the feelgood happiness in the room tonight though, she is prepared to recall the now, thanks to passing time, amusing story for this audience. It was back around 2012 and was easily one of the weirdest weeks of… Read more
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August 2026 Playlist
The name Wayne Rooney might not be one that readers of the music press, or musical criticism and appreciation in general, regularly associate with this particular field of the arts. For those who do not know him (I am aware that there are many readers of this site in the US and Canada so you… Read more
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Sam And Louise Sullivan – Love And Devotion
This is a record made by a duo who were raised, schooled, and immersed in the folk tradition but who wish to reach for something far away from that world sonically. In fact, they are looking at the whole other realm of FM radio with a sound that heavily references Buckingham and Nicks, the foundation… Read more
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Fresh Juice 27th July 2026
Margaret Glaspy – Michigan This is a mesmerising live rendition of the song that opens Margarets latest ‘I Am Both’ album, an arresting piece of folk‑leaning indie‑rock that clearly sets the emotional terms of the whole record. Drawn from a real visit to the Midwest, the song reframes that trip as a post‑breakup flight from… Read more
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