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The Brothers Comatose “Home Again” – I wish I was

February 20, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
The Brothers Comatose have resurrected a song they wrote after friends lost their home in a big fire in the Santa Cruz mountains.  This has become pointedly topical again with the recent fires in Los Angeles, […]
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Video Premiere: Madeline Rosene “Fish Astronaut”

February 20, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0
Here’s the dreamy new single from Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Madeline Rosene.  “Fish Astronaut”, a co-write with Rosene’s husband Alec Daniels, is an absorbing song that reflects on trying to meet society’s expectations through Rosene’s smartly-written, personal […]
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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Paul Simon

February 19, 2025 Dean Nardi 1
“Remember one man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.” It may seem like Paul Simon has been around forever, and if you are of the Baby Boomer generation your perception may be right. Simon (age 83) and […]
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Ron Pope “American Man, American Music”

February 19, 2025 Cam Fraser 0
Heartland rocker Ron Pope’s new album, ‘American Man, American Music’, lives up to its title. Nashville-based platinum-selling Pope will already be familiar to many of AUK’s readership, having previously been featured over several years, including an […]
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Author and artist looking for fan memories of Iain Matthews

February 19, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0
All can apply. Manchester-based author Richard Houghton is the author of more than 20 books about music, these have included authorized fan histories of Fairport Convention and Jethro Tull and now he is tackling one of […]

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Chicago-born and LA-based singer-songwriter Truman Sinclair will be a new name to many AUK readers, although the more observant of you will have noticed his song Joel Roberts topped my top tracks of 2025 list published […]
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Leeroy Stagger “Pilgrimage”

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A memorable change in direction in this celebration of rural Celtic communities. Leeroy Stagger, born and raised in rural Vancouver Island before moving to southern Alberta, is a prolific artist. Pilgrimage is his thirteenth studio album, […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Sheryl Crow “Chances Are”

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This song is on Sheryl Crow’s Wildflower album, released in 2005 to lukewarm critical response. It was a low-key collection of songs – no All I Wanna Do or Soak Up the Sun among them – […]

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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

May 20, 2026 0
There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]
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Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

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Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]

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