August 2024 – Page 13

Why Americana UK is leaving X aka Twitter

August 20, 2024 Mark Whitfield 11

After a prolonged discussion within our editorial team, we’ve made the decision to leave X aka Twitter and just wanted to let you our readers know the reasons for this although they probably won’t come as […]

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings “Hashtag” – remembering a friend

August 20, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

Here we are catching up on big names in this post-holiday period, and we are just not going to say anything about Gillian Welch and David Rawlings other than that for more years than we care […]

Video Premiere: Arthur Ahbez “Reckless”

August 20, 2024 Ed Donnelly 1

Arthur Ahbez finds his way through found footage in the new video for ‘Reckless’. The New Zealand-based singer and his band The Flaming Ahbez have brought a bit of 60’s garage rock to his usual folky […]

promo-photo for Everette EP "Keys To Kentucky"

AUK’s EP Round-Up – August 2024

August 19, 2024 Graeme Tait 2

Well it’s August already, so time to checkout some excellent music that spans the spectrum of the Americana genre in our Monthly EP’s Round-Up. For starters we have a tasty offering of stripped back country roots, […]

For The Sake Of The Song: Big Star “September Gurls”

August 19, 2024 Andrew Raw 6

It was the early nineties and I had one of those momentous moments in my musical listening when I heard the fabulous ”Bandwagonesque” by AUK favourites Teenage Fanclub. At the time I was absolutely knocked out- […]

Dean Owenswith John Convertino and Joey Burns

The Top 10 UK Americana Albums of All Time: Jonathan Hincks

September 24, 2026 0

It’s week 2 of the search for our writers’ Top 10 UK americana albums, and Jonathan Hincks will doubt add to the debate with his choice, as follows: With the hands of the Doomsday Clock edging […]

Album artwork for The Fool by Embla and the Karldotters

Embla and the Karidotters “The Fool”

September 24, 2026 0

Norwegian queer-country assertively and affectionately delivering. Embla Karidotter was the drummer for Norwegian indie band Razika for 13 years, before she chose to change direction and build on her love of country music with new band […]

Béla Fleck releases live album to celebrate his Bluegrass Heart

September 24, 2026 0

On the 16th of October, Béla Fleck is to release the recording of a stellar Nashville night as a live album called Live Heart. On January 8, 2022, he and a multigenerational gang of musical heavy […]

Month: August 2024

Why Americana UK is leaving X aka Twitter

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings “Hashtag” – remembering a friend

Video Premiere: Arthur Ahbez “Reckless”

AUK’s EP Round-Up – August 2024

For The Sake Of The Song: Big Star “September Gurls”

The Top 10 UK Americana Albums of All Time: Jonathan Hincks

Embla and the Karidotters “The Fool”

Béla Fleck releases live album to celebrate his Bluegrass Heart

Izzie Walsh “Where Do We Go From Here?”

Americana Stories – Stephen Eyre “On the road”