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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 57

May 24, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 0

No words can suffice.. I received a call on Saturday telling that one of my students who had left the school not 5 years ago had been found dead. It was shocking thing to hear. The […]

Features

The Other Side of Me: Jonathan Smith on how the Jesus and Mary Chain changed everything

May 24, 2022 Jonathan Smith 0

It was 1986, at a party at someone’s house, I don’t remember whose. I didn’t really want to be there, it was definitely a peer pressure thing. I’d probably ridden my tiny moped there, cloaked in […]

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Blue Violet “Late Night Calls”

May 24, 2022 Peter Churchill 1

Husband and wife duo working in perfect harmony. Blue Violet are spouses Sam and Sarah Gotley. Although ‘Late Night Calls’ is the couple’s debut under this moniker this isn’t their first musical foray together. In their […]

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Arlo McKinley “To Die For” – Just give me some truth

May 24, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

With a foundation in music that encompasses singing and playing guitar in a Baptist church, playing in bands on the the DIY and punk rock circuits, Arlo McKinley has worked his way towards a crunching roots-rock […]

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Video Premiere: The Damn Quails “Monsters”

May 24, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

Check out ‘Monsters’, the brand new video from The Damn Quails, which is full of good-humoured fun.  Directed by Scotty Galaxy for Riverman Productions, the irreverent video intersperses footage from the studio, with Bryon White driving […]

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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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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

February 10, 2026 0

From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

February 9, 2026 0

Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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Midlake “Noble” – oh precious child

March 2, 2022 0

Midlake return!  This first song is taken from upcoming album ‘For The Sake Of Bethel Woods‘, due via ATO Records in the US and Bella Union in the UK on Friday, March 18.  ‘Noble’ is a […]

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Passenger returns with UK dates and new song “Sandstorm”

January 31, 2020 0

We leave you on this exciting week for us here at AUK (my poor head…) with a new song from Passenger aka Mike Rosenberg who is back following his lovely 2017 americana album ‘Runaway’ which culminated […]

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Lost Kinks track found!

August 16, 2018 0

That’s hyperbole – not so much lost more carefully stored away in a tape archive but never previously released.  This track, ‘Time Song‘ has been heard before though, it was played at a concert celebrating the […]

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