Album Reviews
Frank Turner “Undefeated”
Barnstorming post-punk with intelligent and thoughtful lyrics. If you have not been to a Frank Turner concert, it is something to behold. He is up there giving it “110 percent”, as they say, backed by his […]
Month: July 2024
Features
More People Should Know About: Sam Baker
Sam Baker is an American singer songwriter, artist and photographer. He has a feel for writing words and melodies which are sparse, full of space and humanity and quiet poetry. There is a kind of sage-like […]
Columns
AUK Shortcuts: SUSS, Morningbird, Honey On Our Tongues, Kacy Lee Anderson & The Waverley Pickers, JP Payton, Steve Hartsoe and M. Butterfly
Our latest Short Cuts, a monthly 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 […]
Album Reviews
Mark Brown “Happy Hour”
A collection of fourteen songs covering a lot of ground musically and lyrically. Mark Brown is one of many working performers whose music falls under the americana category. Ploughing a furrow of self-released records, working with […]
Tracks
Goodnight Texas “The Lightning And The Old Man Todd” – nurture or nature?
Goodnight Texas were founded by Avi Vinocur and Patrick Dyer Wolf, and they took their band name from a hamlet lying at the exact midpoint between their respective homes in San Francisco and Chapel Hill. Their […]