February 2025 – Page 8

Counting Crows spread the love with new album “Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!”

February 24, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

Multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated band Counting Crows has announced their forthcoming new album, “Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!” will be released on May 9 via BMG. This is the first new material since 2021’s “Butter Miracle: Suite One”, and the album […]

Artwork for Joe Ely's 2025 album "Love and Freedom"

Joe Ely “Love and Freedom”

February 24, 2025 Daisy Innes 2

A healing album for a time of social turmoil. On his twenty-ninth studio album, Joe Ely is revisiting and recording some stories from the past, all in the hopes of finding “Love and Freedom”. At a […]

Lily Monaghan “Willing To Wait” – all good things come…

February 24, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Edmonton’s Lily Monaghan is evolving musically – her latest single ‘Willing To Wait‘ is the first full band recording that the singer, best known for more folky offerings, has recorded and released. It’s a song that […]

Video Premiere: Bob Bradshaw “Albuquerque”

February 24, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0

Here’s the video premiere for “Albuquerque”, the latest single from Boston-based Irish singer-songwriter Bob Bradshaw. Co-written with Scoop McGuire, the song features a warm, melodic bass-line from John Sheeran, over which James Rohr’s tinkling keys and […]

Something for the weekend: Truman Sinclair “Joel Roberts”

February 21, 2025 Mark Whitfield 1

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader and we leave you with a track from a new to these pages 22 year old artist called Truman Sinclair whose debut album “American Recordings” was […]

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John Mellencamp - The Lonesome Jubilee
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Ashley McBryde - Wild (vinyl)
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Liz stringer ‘ first time really feeling’Melbourne song...
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@paul-villers Those versions keep coming
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Radio Paradise's Mellow Mix whilst on a bit of a drive
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The Lone Bellow - The Lone Bellow (vinyl)
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Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

May 26, 2026 3

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 […]

Leeroy Stagger “Pilgrimage”

May 26, 2026 0

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, […]

For the Sake of the Song: Sheryl Crow “Chances Are”

May 26, 2026 0

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 – […]

Interviews

Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

May 26, 2026 3

Interviews

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 […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

May 19, 2026 2

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 […]

Album Reviews

Town Mountain “Lines in the Levee”

October 10, 2022 0

The soothing sound of heartland rock. Some Town Mountain has grown considerably since its inception fifteen years ago, not only in its membership but also in its energy, emotion and live shows. Original members Robert Greer […]

News

The New Pornographers return with/to “The Former Site Of” in March 2026

January 23, 2026 0

The New Pornographers’ highly anticipated new album “The Former Site Of” is due to be released on 27th March 2026 on Merge Records. “The Former Site Of” is the tenth studio album from the indie supergroup […]

Classic Clips

Classic Clips: Sarah Jarosz plays James McMurtry’s ‘Childish Things’, April 2021

April 28, 2023 2

The most abbreviated form of this accompanying text for Sarah Jarosz’ take on James McMurtry’s ‘Childish Things’ would be “this is an outstanding version of an outstanding song, so stop reading and start listening now”. But […]

Month: February 2025

Counting Crows spread the love with new album “Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!”

Joe Ely “Love and Freedom”

Lily Monaghan “Willing To Wait” – all good things come…

Video Premiere: Bob Bradshaw “Albuquerque”

Something for the weekend: Truman Sinclair “Joel Roberts”

Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

Leeroy Stagger “Pilgrimage”

For the Sake of the Song: Sheryl Crow “Chances Are”

Anniversary Cheers: The Handsome Family “Singing Bones”

Preview: Gate To Southwell Festival 2026 in July features The Proclaimers and Richard Thompson