June 2025 – Page 29 – Americana UK

Our new supporters playlist comes out today – win tickets to see Dawn Landes live

June 6, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

Our new playlist of the best new Americana we’ve heard over the last month is out later today exclusively for AUK supporters which includes new tracks by Will Varley, Wednesday, The Minus 5, Herman Dune and […]

My Politic “Signs of Life”

June 6, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

Music is the sign of life when other aspects of civilisation fail. With the USA still as much a sharply-divided country as it has been since the Obama years, you might expect a musical duo using […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 188 “Things ain’t wot they used to be”

June 6, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

Today is my birthday and as a present to myself in July 1980 I made my way to the Stafford Bingley Hall to attend the… ahem…” Over the Top Heavy Metal Brain Damage Party” featuring seven […]

Bicentennial Drug Lord “This Pabst Blue Ribbon” – what made Milwaukee famous…

June 6, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Bicentennial Drug Lord is quite a provocative band name – sounds like some retro-psychedelic band or maybe a Indie rock combo. In fact, as today’s song demonstrates, they are a band who can do both kinds […]

Video Premiere: Morton Valence (featuring Stephen McCarthy) “Hey Misty”

June 6, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Well, here’s the sound of the Summer (although you’d never tell from the photo) arriving on this dreamy new song from Morton Valence, with the added bonus of the guitar playing of Long Ryder Stephen McCarthy. […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 0

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers

August 5, 2026 0

Includes tracks from My Morning Jacket, Lucinda Williams and MJ Lenderman among others. Cinema Music Group, Killphonic Records, and City Slang have announced Heart of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young, Vol. 2 – Out of […]

Month: June 2025

Our new supporters playlist comes out today – win tickets to see Dawn Landes live

My Politic “Signs of Life”

Sounds from beyond the Shed 188 “Things ain’t wot they used to be”

Bicentennial Drug Lord “This Pabst Blue Ribbon” – what made Milwaukee famous…

Video Premiere: Morton Valence (featuring Stephen McCarthy) “Hey Misty”

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers

Greg Freeman announces new album and UK dates

All-star line-up for Bob Harris event announced for Royal Albert Hall in December