March 2023 – Americana UK

Something for the weekend: The Milk Carton Kids “Starshine”

March 31, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

That’s it for us for another week dear reader and we leave you with another song to be released from the forthcoming album from California’s Milk Carton Kids, ‘I Only See The Moon‘, which will be […]

Peggy Seeger “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” – Subject singing

March 31, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

What an incredible thing – to be the inspiration for ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face‘ – and to hear it sung by it’s author Ewan McColl just the once – and that down […]

Waco Brothers “The Men That God Forgot”

March 31, 2023 Michael Macy 0

Country-Punk veterans hit the right note for today’s world. Billed as country-punk, the Waco Brothers new album is rooted in punk but its country influences are harder to hear. That said, ‘The Men God Forgot’ does […]

The First Time: Keith Hargreaves – The Specials, Madness etc. Camden Electric Ballroom – 21st July 1979

March 31, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 3

I was fifteen. I knew nothing… at all. Desperate to attend a gig in London my mate Maz persuaded his sister who lived in a commune in Kings Cross to get some tickets. Maz was a […]

AUK Shortcuts March 2023: Frances Luke Accord, Nicholas Johnson, Seamus Foley, Taradiddle, Nashville Ambient Ensemble, Brigid O’Neill and Daniel Meade…

March 31, 2023 Paul Kerr 0

Our latest Short Cuts, an occasional feature where AUK casts a brief eye and ear on several albums we’ve received recently which just didn’t make the cut for a full review. Like most major music websites […]