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.
Dubwiser on Peter Tosh: Why I Love
Dubwiser recently released their latest album; Bring The Light. The band join us for look at reggae great, Peter Tosh.
Fairport’s Cropredy Convention 2025 – Gallery
As the dust settles on what turned out to be a perfectly formed Cropredy for 2025, we have a scan through the images for a recap of a very fine weekend.
Katie Boeck – Dust: Single Review
Soft, gentle and unbelievably ethereal. Dust, the new single from Nashville singer, songwriter and actor Katie Boeck, could be so easily be mistaken for a long-lost Joni Mitchell song…
Eighty Ninety – Hollywood Dream: Single Review
Dreamy, cinematic sounds from Indie/pop duo Eighty Ninety.
Obituary – Godly Beings – The Roadrunner Albums: Album Review
Cherry Red Records and Dissonance collate the Roadrunner albums from Obituary – a truly great run of albums that put the Floridians on the map.