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Aren’t “For Love” – it was love, wasn’t it?

December 3, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
Taken from the new EP ‘Creatures of Habit‘ Aren’t present a frail and tentative song which questions motives and explanations offered to the world and each other: “what if we tried, we did it for love” […]
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Video Premiere: Masorti “Something Better”

December 3, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0
Check out the video premiere of Masorti’s uptempo debut single ‘Something Better’.  Masorti features New York City-based singer-songwriter Philip Masorti, a former lawyer who took the brave step of leaving his practice in order to take […]
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How I Write A Song: Paul Kelly

December 2, 2021 Alasdair Fotheringham 1
As part of our occasional series of How I Write A Song as his new Christmas album comes out, AUK talked to one of Australia’s best-known singer-songwriters, Paul Kelly. Paul Kelly’s career now spans five decades […]
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Aoife O’Donovan “Age Of Apathy” – can you actually drown in beauty?

December 2, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
The title track of the Joe Henry produced album that will be out on January 21st via Yep Roc, and this is a song of some wonderment and beauty.  What did we say last time about […]
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Lachlan Bryan and the Wildes “As Long As It’s Not Us”

December 2, 2021 Richard Phillips 0
Darkness and light from the suburbs of Melbourne. Out of the South East suburbs of Melbourne, Lachlan Bryan and The Wildes have emerged to bring us a collection of songs that traverse through an emotional landscape […]

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Something for the weekend: Keyside “Lemon and Lime”

May 15, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week, and bear with me dear reader with the track we’re leaving you with for the weekend which despite starting off sounding like we’ve veered into covering 90s-era Britpop, […]
Album Reviews

Cowboy Junkies “Open to Beauty”

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Americana legends celebrate 21st-century releases on latest career retrospective. Forty years in, the Cowboy Junkies remain one of the great under-the-surface bands in Americana: despite having a million-selling classic to their name, they rarely make best-of […]
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Book Review: Patrick Joseph O’Connor “Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community”

May 15, 2026 0
Patrick Joseph O’Connor’s Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community reclaims an overlooked part in American musicology. While places like Chicago, Memphis, and the Mississippi Delta often dominate the story of Blues, O’Connor suggests that […]

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Interview: Daniel Tashian on being a reluctant band leader and the joys of songwriting collaborations

May 14, 2026 0
Daniel Tashian is a legend in Nashville. He’s a deeply respected songwriter, he’s a solo artist with six albums to his name, he’s been in two superb bands, and he’s the go-to guy when you want […]
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Behind the Songs: Thin Lear

May 13, 2026 0
The songs on Thin Lear’s sophomore album Many Disappeared are tied to each other not in their locale or their cast of characters, but instead in strange tragedies that have taken place, some many years ago. Current […]
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Interview: Judy Collins doesn’t look back, she looks forward

May 12, 2026 0
“My home is in New York City, on the Upper West Side,” Judy Collins said, proudly holding up a painting by her sister of cats and dogs that resembles a Monet. When I mentioned travelling up […]

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Carter Sampson announces UK dates

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Oklahoma’s Carter Sampson returns to the UK in April and May for a short run of dates that include two shows at the Kilkenny Roots Festival.  She’s not long been out of the UK so she […]
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Bobbie Gentry 8 disc box set gets release date

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UMC has announced the release on September 21st of the first major retrospective of  Bobbie Genty, an artist who not only knocked Sgt Pepper off the top of the US Album charts but who was also one […]
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Bruce Springsteen “Western Stars” (Columbia, 2019)

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The lone traveler sticks out his thumb and his journey begins. Across the country he hitch-hikes, catching rides from family men, truck drivers, muscle car owners and the like, listening to their stories and situations as […]

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