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Jeff Kelly “When the World Was Younger” (Green Monkey Records, 2020)

August 10, 2020 Jason McDonald 0

The question which will be asked by future generations will be “What did you do during the pandemic of 2020?”.  Which most of us will be able to reply that we gained weight, tried to make […]

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Track Premiere: Great Peacock “All I Ever Do”

August 10, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

“I could be your lover, I could be a friend / We could find a place no one else has ever been” sings Andrew Nelson on this, the first single from Great Peacock’s new album ‘Forever […]

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Video: Sunny Ozell “The Valley”

August 10, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Sunny Ozell’s latest single, ‘The Valley’, is a gently beautiful piece of work and the accompanying video demonstrates masterful musicianship.  This Los Lobos cover is taken from her new EP ‘Live at the Village’, which also […]

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Something for the weekend: Dawes “St. Augustine at Night”

August 7, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us until Monday, and we leave you this week dear reader with a quiet but sparkly new song from LA’s Dawes: ‘St. Augustine at Night’ is taken from the band’s seventh studio […]

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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Stephie James

August 7, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

It’s been a little while since we’ve offered you gig-starved music-lovers a ‘mini-gig’ to enjoy, something to remind you of the good times to come when we can get back out to see a few shows.  […]

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Interview: Mean Mary answers six of one and half a dozen of the other

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The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It’s not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with the […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Live Reviews

Live Review: Curse Of Lono, Electrowerkz, London – 1st December 2021

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Life for any artist during the past year or so has been bleak, but particularly so for Curse Of Lono founder and frontman, Felix Bechtolsheimer. “I lost my dad, my uncle and my ex-partner last year, […]

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Oh no – it’s actually December!  How did that happen?  Well, the same way that it always happens – Christmas and the annual festivities around a week off from Americana UK always seems so far away.  […]

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