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Essentials: The Top 10 Counting Crows Songs

July 31, 2025 Peter Thompson 6
Counting Crows came into being in 1991 in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1993, the band’s debut album, “August and Everything After“, off the back of the breakthrough single ‘Mr. Jones’, the album sold in […]
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Live Review: Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk – 4th-6th July 2025

July 31, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0
Maverick, Maverick, so good we’ve reviewed it twice. While our accredited reporter, Andrew Frolish, has turned in his extensive review of the latest Maverick Festival, another AUK writer, John Lee, was also there and has kindly […]
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Interview: Lukas Nelson on being shaped and raised by the romance of the American road

July 31, 2025 Daisy Innes 2
Some people might say the highway is their home, that they hit the road and never turned back, and it could be somewhat of a glorified-wannabe-troubadour narrative, but for americana icon Lukas Nelson, it’s just a […]
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Mighty Joe Castro and The Gravamen “Between The Lightning and The Thunder”

July 31, 2025 Chas Lacey 0
Cinematic noir and poetic storytelling with a rockabilly Ameripolitan edge. Making their début in 2020 with their first full-length album, “Come On Angels”, the Philadelphia-based Mighty Joe Castro & The Gravamen announced themselves as an Ameripolitan […]
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Live Review: Noble Jacks at BEAM, Hertford – 24th July 2025

July 31, 2025 FredArnold 0
As a last-night treat for our temporary houseguests, we took them to see the Brighton-based band Noble Jacks at the relatively new BEAM stage and screen venue in Hertford town centre. And what a treat it […]

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Well that’s it from us for this week. Regular readers will no doubt be sick to death now of me plugging this guy but his stuff is so good and as if any more proof was […]
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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

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Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
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Utah band on a roll with their second ‘comeback’ album after a 15-year hiatus. You feel as though you should showcase this band in our Feature article More People Really Should Know About..…because, despite the fact […]

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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

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Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
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Interview: Thomas Ådland, of Thomas & The Angry Hearts, on Language, Love and Identity

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Two days before I heard them fill Martin’s Bar in Lillestrøm, I watched Thomas & The Angry Hearts make music in a wooden house surrounded by trees. In that studio, sound was built patiently: a harmony […]
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Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Ríoghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

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How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]

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The new video from Amanda B. Perry features artistically-shot footage of ‘Change’ recorded at River Rock Studios.  Filmed and edited by Eli Gardiner, it’s an atmospheric visual that allows us to see some great musicianship and […]
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Carrying the torch for original acoustic blues from a bygone era, Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton returns to the UK for a short run of dates from Friday of this week.  Although still in his 20s, Jerron “Blind […]
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Mickelson launches straight into the politics with the opening line of his new single: “I’ve got an itchy trigger-finger but I only kill with kindness.”  With a driving bassline, foot-tapping beat and swirling electric guitars, ‘UNarmed […]

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