Jack Rose and the Black Twig Pickers play pure unsullied old-school Americana, with nary an ironic wink in sight. You might be surprised how much you like it.

If you don’t buy and love New Moon Hand by Willem Maker, I’m going to park a festival PA outside your house and play it on repeat until you do.

New Yorican stalwarts The Walkmen release “In The New Year”, a sterling second single from their long-released (but still worthwhile) You & Me album.

Delayed but undeterred by the British weather, New Jersey retropunks The Gaslight Anthem run through their Springsteenish tunes to a packed house in Portsmouth.

New Jersey retropunks The Gaslight Anthem rock the old-school reverb and American nostalgia on their much-lauded second album The ‘59 Sound. A few additional tricks wouldn’t go amiss, though.

The Gaslight Anthem get all dewy-eyed about big cars and the fifties on “Old White Lincoln”. Maybe you had to be there to really get it.

The Walkmen’s latest single “The Blue Route” utterly fails to impress with its plodding rhythms and New Yorican whining.

The Walkmen just walked back into town with You & Me – a suitcase full of hauntingly nonchalant Dylanesque indie-jangle Americana.

New York post-folkers O’Death have, with excellent timing, penned the ideal soundtrack to the Next Great Depression in the form of Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin.

Murder By Death conjure up ghosts and demons from the Deep South on Red Of Tooth And Claw.