Tracks
Jaspar Lepak “I Am Human (Live)” – know what? I matter too.
‘How can a person be expected to live / with no autonomy / with no choice in what they get?” sings Jaspar Lepak on this great live recording of a new song that was in an […]
Month: October 2022
Album Reviews
Mightmare “Cruel Liars”
From country rock to mesmeric indie. Freed from months of pandemic restrictions Sarah Shook might have been expected to kick the doors down with even more ferocity than with their band The Disarmers. Particularly if the […]
Features
AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Number 4 – Laura Cantrell “Not the Tremblin’ Kind” (2000)
I have always hated bombast in music, and if I had to chose one part of americana broadly speaking that I can’t bear it’s that kind of Southern Rock dirge which is as far away from […]
Features
Small Venue Heroes: The Josephines
To date, the biggest band to come out of the city of Bowling Green, Kentucky is almost certainly eclectic art rockers Cage The Elephant. But it’s also home to The Josephines, who describe themselves as a […]
Album Reviews
Jesse Tabish “Cowboy Ballads Part 1”
Lush production and cinematic arrangements. Yet another album conceived and recorded during a pandemic lockdown. Jesse Tabish is the frontman for Oklahoma band, Other Lives, but on this album, working with his wife, Kim (also a […]