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December 2, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: I’ll Be Your Mirror – A Tribute To The Velvet Underground & Nico

Various Artists: I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute To The Velvet Underground & Nico Verve It’s been a wee while since I’ve found a great Various Artists tribute album – one that doesn’t feel try-hard, one that doesn’t run out of steam. So I was pleasantly surprise by this, feeling – on paper – it […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged A Tribute To The Velvet Underground & Nico, Album Review, Andrew Bird, Bobby Gillespie, Courtney Barnett, Covers, I'll Be Your Mirror, I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute To The Velvet Underground & Nico, Iggy Pop, Kurt Vile, Matt Berliner, Matt Sweeney, Michael Stipe, Sharon Van Etten, St. Vincent, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground & Nico, Thurston Moore, Tribute, Tribute Album, V/A, V/A: I’ll Be Your Mirror - A Tribute To The Velvet Underground & Nico, Various, Various Artists, Verve, VU, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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May 4, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Old Interview Haunts: Old Interviews Haunt

These days I do most of my interviews, face to face, in long form, for the podcast. And I love doing that. But I have a lot of time – too – for the old phoner. I’m always saying, on the podcast, that I hate/d the “15 minute phoner” and that’s true. I did. And […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bauhaus, Civic Square, Duran Duran, Interview, Neneh Cherry, Old Interview Haunts, Old Interview Haunts: Old Interviews Haunt, Old Interviews, Old Interviews Haunt, Phone Interview, Phoner, Podcast, Ryan Adams, Sharon Van Etten, Side of the road ·

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June 25, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: Remembering Mountains – Unheard Songs by Karen Dalton

Various Artists: Remembering Mountains: Unheard Songs by Karen Dalton Tompkins Square There are only two albums by Karen Dalton, a tragic figure with a heartbreak-voice. Like Dory Previn or Nick Drake or – more recently Elliott Smith and Jeff Buckley – she’s someone you are drawn to, you hear the testimony of a Bob Dylan […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Compilation, Isobel Campbell, Josephine Foster, Julia Holter, Karen Dalton, Lucinda Williams, Marissa Nadler, Patty Griffin, Remembering Mountains, Remembering Mountains: Unheard Songs by Karen Dalton, Sharon Van Etten, Tribute, V/A, V/A: Remembering Mountains - Unheard Songs by Karen Dalton, Various Artists ·

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March 18, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Sharon Van Etten (March 13, Wgtn)

Sharon Van Etten Bodega Friday, March 13 It was, in many ways, a great treat to see Sharon Van Etten perform live. That voice – gorgeous. And it was intimate, just her and band-member Heather Woods Broderick, a truncated version of the touring band, sold here as “stripped back/down”. And the songs – at their […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Are We There, Bodega, Gig Review, Gig Review: Sharon Van Etten (March 13, Live Gig, Sharon Van Etten, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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March 12, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Quiet Kid, The Introvert: Sharon Van Etten and Her Emotionally Resonant Songs

Sharon Van Etten tells me she feels “blessed” to have a career; she’s “incredibly lucky” by her reckoning. And the last year, the last two years even, provided “more pinch yourself moments” than Van Etten could have ever dreamed of, growing up in New Jersey, a record-obsessed, introverted diarist. “It’s funny”, she says, not laughing, […]
Posted in Blog, Interviews · Tagged Are We There, Bada Bing Records, Bodega, Interview, Robert Scott, Sharon Van Etten, The Introvert: Sharon Van Etten and Her Emotionally Resonant Songs, The Quiet Kid, Tiny Ruins ·

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October 29, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Sharon Van Etten: NZ Tour (March 2015)

Sharon Van Etten released one of the best albums of the year – and now she’s announced four New Zealand shows (Auckland, Wellington, Lyttleton and Dunedin) for March of 2015. The Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist will be playing New Zealand for the first time. Are We There is her fourth album, her back catalogue is worth investigating […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Live, March 2015, NZ Tour, Promo, Sharon Van Etten, Solid, Tour ·

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June 4, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Sharon Van Etten: Are We There

Sharon Van Etten Are We There Jagjaguwar Some of Are We There, Van Etten’s fourth album, falls – nicely (by the way) – into that Stories From The Sea-era PJ Harvey sound that she has always hinted at. But the big change with Are We There is that before any of that can happen Sharon […]
Posted in Blog · Tagged Album Review, Are We There, Heather Nova, Sharon Van Etten ·

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