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It’s Adnams Artist of the Month time this week with a fascinating volunteer to select the winning artist, Kurt Hartle makes some insightful observations and comes up with a rather surprising but wholly deserving choice.
There was a time, not long ago, when coffee at a …

Music from Glasgow, London, Northampton MA, Seattle and Paris this week with a couple of specials including the result of the Adnams Artist of the Month.
It was for the AOTM interview that I went over to Southwold this morning. A fabulous day of dramatic clouds, …

Under one roof in New England’s Pioneer Valley, Darlingside came together with five songwriters, a mandolin, a cello and violin, guitars and drums, a chorus of voices, and a van named Chauncey.
Holed up in their home between a cornfield and the Connecticut River, they forged …

OK, so the entire independent music business has migrated to Austin, Texas this week. Well, not quite. There are still a few of us suffering good home cooking, a decent pint of beer, grey skies and something of a chill. Plenty of tee-shirts in evidence …