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Something for the weekend: Steve Forbert “Complications”

April 17, 2025 Jonathan Aird 3
Well, well, well – what’s going on here?  The Deputy Editor trying to muscle further into the website, and carve out an additional niche?  No, not at all – it’s just a case of real-world complications […]
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Essentials: The Top Ten Charley Crockett Songs

April 17, 2025 Jonny Brick 1
In the olden days, a record label would spend thousands, if not millions, of their local currency to promote a new act. They would fund a radio tour, a support slot, an EP or album and […]
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Video: Counting Crows “Under the Aurora”

April 17, 2025 Ed Donnelly 1
Counting Crows continue their long running streak of solid, brilliantly written songs with ‘Under the Aurora’.   From the very first words spilling from Adam Durtiz’s mouth, this is unmistakably a Counting Crows track.  There is comfort […]
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Only Child “Holy Ghosts”

April 17, 2025 Andy Short 3
A resurrection from the haunting ghosts. Alan O’Hare has produced critically acclaimed music as the band Only Child for over a decade. Recorded at the Crosstown Studios in Liverpool and produced by studio owner Jon Lawton, […]
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Book/Album Review: Josh Rosenthal (editor) “Treasures Untold: A Modern 78 RPM Reader”

April 17, 2025 Tim Martin 4
We’ve had vinyl, CD, and cassettes all making a “comeback.” So are 78s the next format we’ll all be hankering after. It feels unlikely simply on the grounds of breakability alone. But 78s refuse to go […]

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Well that’s it from us for this sweltering week, and we leave you dear reader with a brand new track from Drew Danburry’s Icarus Phoenix outfit which he describes as “an upbeat fiendishly danceable song about […]
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Live Review: Kiefer Sutherland + Colin Andrew, The Adrian Flux Waterfront, Norwich – 13th May 2026

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When Kiefer Sutherland strode onto the stage at Norwich’s Adrian Flux Waterfront, the response from the packed crowd was immediate and thunderous. There was no slow build into the evening: Sutherland and his outstanding band launched […]
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Jim Keller releases first ever European vinyl retrospective called “Vinylly!”

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You see what he did there? Multi-talented singer, songwriter, and musician Jim Keller is to release Vinylly!, a collection of 14 of his finest songs from the last 15 years, and his first-ever European vinyl release. […]

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Interview: Ben Vaughn on being true to yourself and the joys of recording an album in your car

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To say Ben Vaughn has had an eclectic musical career would be a gross understatement. He grew up in the Philadelphia area, and his journey into music began when a kind uncle gave him a Duane […]
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Interview: Beau Jennings – In Tribute to Will Rogers and the Verdigris

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If History was your favourite class in school, raise your digital hand. Only two? Come on, the subject is not that dull. Now pay attention. Today, we are going to learn about a river called the […]
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Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

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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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