Tracks
Ian Noe “Tom Barrett” – there is a darkness
A second song from Ian Noe’s new album ‘River Fools and Mountain Saints‘ which paints in a song a series of portraits of Appalachia and its people as it is today. So, ‘Tom Barrett’, documents a […]
Year: 2022
Videos
Video Premiere: A Starving Viking “It’s Mine Now”
We’re pleased to premiere the video for ‘It’s Mine Now’, the new single from A Starving Viking, the stage name for Matt Jarrett. Based around warm, tuneful finger-picking, the song picks up an insistent, urgent beat […]
Interviews
Interview: Willy Vlautin talks Delines, Fontaine, Books, Movies and Ursula Le Guinn
Willy Vlautin has a whole quiver full of arrows, which is lucky as he has many strings to his bow. We talked with The Delines songwriter in a wide-ranging chat. As songwriter for Richmond Fontaine and […]
Live Reviews
Live Review: The Dead South, Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London – 18th March 2022
The Dead South, the four piece from Regina, Saskatchewan, whose high energy take on bluegrass has won them deserved plaudits, are back on the road. When last in London two years ago they played to a […]
Live Reviews
Festival Review: South By South West Festival – Austin, Texas 15th–18th March, 2022
After reviewing the streamed version of SXSW for AUK last year, our roving reporter Oliver Gray returns to Austin to get up close and personal. The trauma of sorting out all the paperwork leading up to […]