The Beths – Straight Line Was A Lie: Album Review
The Beths return with Straight Line Was A Lie; their fourth full length player. It’s their most poignant and melancholy output yet.
UFO – The Misdemeanor Tour: Album Review
UFO enter a period of reconciliation around one of their more divisive album releases.
W.A.S.P. – Album One Alive: UK Tour preview
A reminder of the upcoming W.A.S.P (with Armored Saint) headline shows in England as they return with the ‘Album One Alive’ tour.
Damnation Festival completes 20th anniversary line-up: News
Damnation Festival complete their bumper 20th anniversary line-up with several new additions to the bill.
Tom Smith – A Year In The Life: Album Review
A Year In The Life, from Tom Smith, is a vibrant and enjoyable jazz work, with an inventive approach to the Big Band sound.
Ian F Ball – Better Late Than Never: Album Review
Oldham singer-songwriter Ian F Ball celebrates 53 years as a musician with his appropriately-titled debut album. Better Late Than Never is an eclectic mix of homespun stories and tunes
Shipwreck Orchestra – Lost Maps & Long Barrows: Album Review
Perfection on a summer’s afternoon! Lost Maps & Long Barrows – the new album from Shipwreck Orchestra – aka multi-instrumentalist Aaron Miller (and friends) – blends prog and folk influences with orchestral ambition to create sounds that are truly unique and thoroughly satisfying
Teud – The Hebridean Fiddle Project: EP Review
Fiddles to both feed your feet and your emotions. Teud release the results of The Hebridean Fiddle Project.
Anthony Phillips – Radio Clyde 1978: Album Review
The superb remaster of Radio Clyde 1978 captures Anthony Phillips playing and singing live in the studio, for a classic radio session.
Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage – New Single, Album News
New double A side single from Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage – all is right with the world.
William Covert – Dream Vessel: Album News
News of Dream Vessel, the new album from William Covert plus the new single, Trancers.
Kevin Rowland on music, home and what it means to be Irish: Interview
Speaking to At the Barrier journalist Peter Freeth and author of ‘Standing On The Shoulders of Giants’ Michael Daly, Kevin Rowland shares more of his insights, influences and aspirations.
Skerryvore – Live At Floors Castle: Album Review
Skerryvore slay any scepticism with a precision assault on the senses.
Eve Adams – American Dust: Album Review
The sirenesque sound of a mirage, Eve Adams shimmers convincingly on American Dust.
Bret McKenzie – Freak Out City: Album Review
Bret McKenzie (one half of Flight Of The Conchords) releases his second solo record; the follow up to 2022’s Songs Without Jokes.