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Mark Eitzel announces UK & European tour dates for 2025

October 31, 2024 Richard Parkinson 2
Mark Eitzel, former frontman of San Francisco’s American Music Club has announced his first European tour for eight years, taking place in spring 2025.  The majority of dates will be solo acoustic sets other than the […]
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Andrew Weiss and Friends “the world’s smallest violin”

October 31, 2024 Andrew Raw 0
Back to the seventies with this thoughtful and well-written lively soft-rock. This is Andrew Weiss’ sixth album with his “Friends” and it’s a record that takes you back to the seventies with its jaunty, often piano-based, […]
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The Matinee “Silver Bullet” – I got a fast car…

October 31, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
Vancouver’s roots-rocker The Matinee have a new release ‘End of Scene – B-Sides EP‘ out tomorrow.  The band explain the title, saying: “We’ve been holding onto these songs for a while, and now feels like the […]
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Aussie troubadour Hazlett completes sophomore album and headlines UK for the first time

October 31, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0
Following the first part of “Goodbye to the Valley Low” released in late 2023, Australian musician Hazlett has released the complimentary ‘Side B’ EP and combined them together to make a full-length album out now via […]
Album Reviews

Wyatt Flores “Welcome To The Plains”

October 31, 2024 Paul Russell 0
Impressive debut for rising Mexican-American star in the making. Flores is certainly making a name for himself with a string of singles and EPs to his name with the likes of the New York Times praising […]

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Something for the weekend: Lambchop featuring Justin Vernon “Weakened”

May 8, 2026 1
Well that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you dear reader with a brand new track from Kurt Wagner’s Lambchop outfit who have announced details of their new album Punching The Clown which […]
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Cut Throat Finches “High Horse”

May 8, 2026 0
The first great, breezy, summer “pop” record is here, from a self-described “Americanish” band with an old-country soul. Much like their previous efforts, High Horse, by Cowtown’s Cut Throat Finches, defies easy categorisation. Is it a […]
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Zoh Amba to tour Europe and UK in autumn 2026

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Zoh Amba, who previously announced their Matador debut album, Eyes Full, which is out on 5th June 2026, has shared details of a run of UK and European tour dates. The European leg kicks off on […]

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Interview: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan discusses “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

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Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]
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Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

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Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

April 27, 2026 0
David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]

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AUK’s Top 10 Albums of the 21st Century: Number 10 – Nick Lowe “The Convincer” (2001)

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Features Editor Clint West writes: So the countdown begins as we reveal our ‘Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century’. Starting today with our Number 10. Over the next two weeks we will each day […]
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Brooks Williams & Aaron Catlow “Greens & Blues”

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‘Green and Blues’ is the Whitman Sampler of albums. Brooks Williams & Aaron Catlow’s third album, ‘Green and Blues’, is like a Whitman Sampler, the iconic box of chocolates in homespun packaging that has been popular […]
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The Langan Band “Plight of Sheep”

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Scottish folk, but not entirely as you expect it. If there were such a thing as Caledoniana, The Langan Band could well be leading the charge. This is the band’s first studio recording in almost ten […]

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