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Live Review: Cat Power, The Barbican, London – 1st June 2025

June 12, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
This is a gig with a subtitle – Sings Dylan 66 – because this is Cat Power’s tribute to Dylan, drawing on the controversial 1966 tour and specifically the legendary Royal Albert Hall gig, which, of […]
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Preview: Static Roots Festival, Oberhausen, Germany 10th -12th July 2025

June 12, 2025 Richard Parkinson 1
Germany’s premier americana gathering is entering its 9th year with an expanded venue and extended programming. With its signature “living room atmosphere”, Static Roots made the decision to expand into a larger room within Oberhausen’s Zentrum […]
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Rebecca Haviland and Whiskey Heart “Late Nights And Early Mornings” – let’s stay up ’til sunrise

June 12, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
This new release from Rebecca Haviland and Whiskey Heart is a gutsy slice of the rockier end of Americana.  It’s taken from the new EP ‘Early Mornings‘, which is a companion piece to last November’s ‘Late […]
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Video Premiere: Mike & Amy Aiken “Just Our Price to Pay”

June 12, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0
The constant wave of headlines about the US government and politics reveals a country divided and in crisis. The erosion of freedoms, the pace of change and the shutting down of dissenting voices fill many with […]
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Lucinda Williams returns to the UK & Ireland for 2026 tour

June 11, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0
Lucinda Williams has announced nine dates for next January and February including a show at London’s Barbican. It’s her first UK dates since she played the Indigo at the 02 in 2024. Spending much of this […]

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Sounds from beyond the Shed 231 “Raging”

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I think we all know that times are hard, in virtually all respects, but financially, things have been tough for a long while. Every time it looks like there might be some respite, along comes another […]
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Great Willow “Age Of Reason” – Bing bing, bong bong bong, bing bing

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It has been a while, quite a while, since we last featured Great Willow (although we have heard more recently from James Combs, one half of the duo), so it’s really nice to have some new […]
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Video Premiere: The Sensational Country Blues Wonders! (Gary Van Miert) “A Mad Tea Party”

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Disappear down the rabbit hole with the latest single from The Sensational Country Blues Wonders!, the musical project of New Jersey-based musician and performer Gary Van Miert. The video for The Mad Tea Party is a […]

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

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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

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 […]
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Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

May 18, 2026 1
At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

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The cynical, sceptical Louis Brennan casts his eye over the messed-up world we live in. ‘Love Island’ is the second album from London-based Dubliner Louis Brennan, the long awaited follow up to his 2018 album ‘Dead […]
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The Other Side of Me: Michael Macy goes west – West Africa that is – for the music of Habib Koite

June 21, 2022 2
I have an eclectic taste in music even though I started out listening to americana before there was the name and keep coming back to it. One non-americana music I have long enjoyed is from West […]
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Joan Osborne “Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)”

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Joan Osborne has just released an album of Bob Dylan covers, review coming up on AUK soon, and from that record she’s releasing a single.  Speaking about her version of ‘Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)’, […]

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