Grant-Lee Phillips goes Counter-Clockwise
Read about Grant-Lee Phillips’ new album “WIDDERSHINS” By Jim Jacob New Release – WIDDERSHIN ( To proceed counterclockwise) Release date : 23/02/2018 Released through : YEP ROC RECORDS We at Listening Through The Lens are big fans of Grant-Lee Phillips. His last album The Narrows (2016) had us doffing our collective hats. You can read our earlier review HERE. Nashville via California singer...
Sam Baker Provides No Doubt
Read our review of Texan Sam Baker’s potent new release Land of Doubt. Sam Baker’s Hushed Power Pierces Through ‘Land Of Doubt’ By Rob Dickens Sam Baker hails from the small prairie town of Itasca, Texas, and now lives in Austin. His new album Land of Doubt is his first in four years. It is a compelling testimony from a songwriter who has plenty to say. A cornerstone event in his life has been how he...
Whoop It Up and Regret No More!
By Rob Dickens They have done it again. Not surprising really. The masters of the meld of cow punk power and anthemic twang return and delight us yet another time. For over twenty years and through ten studio albums, Dallas alt-country dynamo outfit Old 97’s have charmed and spurred us on. Their new album Graveyard Whistling (ATO Records) maintains the lofty standards that were set with the band’s iconic major label...
Introducing Beth // James
indie folk duo beth // james sweet EP released April 2017 ‘all in life’ A Short, Sweet Debut from Austin’s Beth // James By Rob Dickens Austin indie-folk duo Beth // James will be issuing a debut EP release All In Life on April 28 2017. Band members are Jordan James Burchill and Mikaela Beth Kahn and the EP was recorded by Brian Douglas Phillips (David Ramirez, Rob Baird). The smooth opener and first...
Dead Soldiers – Dirge-ing and Dancing
review of album the great emptiness by memphis tennessee band dead soldiers 2017 From Memphis Tennessee Dead Soldiers Reveal The Great Emptiness By Rob Dickens I would love to seem them strut their stuff live. Memphis Tennessee band Dead Soldiers are about to release their second album The Great Emptiness (released on American Grapefruit) this week – 31 March 2017. Since 2011 the band has been writing and...
ERIC BRACE & THOMM JUTZ - Circle and Square
