Americana UK

  • News
  • Reviews
    • Album Reviews
    • Live Reviews
    • Book Reviews
  • Features
    • Archive
      • Americana Bedrock
      • Americana Roots
      • AmericanA to Z
      • A Night to Remember
      • Dirty Dozens
      • Home Life
      • I Write the Songs
      • Lost Albums
      • Political Pops
      • Shuffle
      • Small Venue Heroes
      • Studio Life
      • The Other Side of Me
      • The Twang Factor
      • Top 10 Americana Albums Ever
      • Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century
      • Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists
      • Unsung Heroes
      • Van Life
      • Whatever Happened To…
      • What Should I Do…
      • WITATA
    • Anniversary Cheers
    • AUK Mini-Gigs
    • Can’t Live with it, Can’t Live without it
    • Classic Americana Albums
    • Classic Clips
    • Essentials
    • Fiction
    • For The Sake Of The Song
    • More People Really Should Know About
    • Obituaries
    • Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time
    • VERSIONS
  • Interviews
  • Videos
  • Tracks
  • Columns
    • Sounds from the Shed
    • Vox Continental
  • Podcast
  • Forum
  • Info
    • Contact Us!
    • Review submission FAQ
    • Support Americana UK
    • Want to write for Americana UK?
    • Daily Digest Sign-Up
    • Advertise on Americana UK
    • Privacy Policy
Our latest posts
  • [ June 12, 2026 ] Something for the weekend: Starpainter “I Found a River” Videos
  • [ June 12, 2026 ] Kris Drever “Doing This For Love” Album Reviews
  • [ June 12, 2026 ] Classic Clips: Jesse Colin Young “Darkness Darkness” – All Star Jam, Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey, 1984 Classic Clips
  • [ June 12, 2026 ] Kiefer Sutherland “Grey” Album Reviews
  • [ June 12, 2026 ] Live Review: Aldous Harding + Vera Ellen, The Barbican, London – 31st May 2026 Live Reviews
Home2025August

Month: August 2025

Videos

Something for the weekend: Bright Eyes feat. Hurray for the Riff Raff “Dyslexic Palindrome”

August 29, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0
Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader – I am having a rare venture down to London to see Sam Russo tonight although I’m so tired I fully expect to fall asleep in […]
Album Reviews

Marshall Crenshaw “From the Hellhole”

August 29, 2025 Bryan Bance 1
Marshall Crenshaw emerges from the Hellhole with a solid collection of recent recordings. It’s been over 40 years since Marshall Crenshaw burst on the scene with his eponymous debut, and he returns with a collection of […]
News

Midlake return with “A Bridge to Far” out in November

August 29, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0
That’s a bridge to a place called Far, not a David Lean film. Midlake have announced their eagerly awaited sixth studio album, “A Bridge To Far”, due out 7th November 2025 via Bella Union. The album […]
A Mosltly Quiet Life WC Beck
Album Reviews

WC Beck “A Mostly Quiet Life”

August 29, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
Upbeat latest from well-travelled singer-songwriter. “A Mostly Quiet Life” is something of a hybrid album. Most of the songs were written between 2010 and 2012 when Beck lived in Portland. During a break in touring, he […]
artwork for Dar Williams interview
Interviews

Interview: Moved by Metaphor, Dar Williams Commits to the Hummingbird Highway

August 29, 2025 Brian D'Ambrosio 0
Dar Williams toured a spice farm in Belize set amid pristine jungles and primordial Mayan ruins. At a bumpy junction, the driver told the passengers that there were three possible options: steering east, veering west, or […]

Posts pagination

1 2 … 31 »

Recent Forum Posts

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Mudcrutch - Mudcrutch (vinyl)

    By Peter Thompson , 3 days ago

  • RE: There's no future in nostalgia

    Stonehenge was a fucking mess every time but it was a b...

    By Keith Hargreaves , 3 days ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Great shout John I’m new here -Gil Scott Heron wh...

    By Keith Hargreaves , 3 days ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Neil Young - Citizen Kane Jr

    By John , 3 days ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Clarence White would have been 82 today. A little remin...

    By Martin Johnson , 5 days ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Ryan Bingham and The Texas Gentlemen - The Call Us The ...

    By Peter Thompson , 1 week ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    The Highwomen - Live at The Gorge 2023 (streaming - Qob...

    By Peter Thompson , 1 week ago

  • RE: There's no future in nostalgia

    By Jeff , 1 week ago

  • RE: There's no future in nostalgia

    There is very little new under the sun.   &...

    By Martin Johnson , 2 weeks ago

our latest posts

Something for the weekend: Starpainter “I Found a River”

Videos
June 12, 2026 0
artwork for Kris Drever album "Doing This For Love"

Kris Drever “Doing This For Love”

Album Reviews
June 12, 2026 2
Cover art for Jesse Colin Young album "Light Shine"

Classic Clips: Jesse Colin Young “Darkness Darkness” – All Star Jam, Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey, 1984

Classic Clips
June 12, 2026 0
Cover art for Kiefer Sutherland album Grey

Kiefer Sutherland “Grey”

Album Reviews
June 12, 2026 0

Live Review: Aldous Harding + Vera Ellen, The Barbican, London – 31st May 2026

Live Reviews
June 12, 2026 0
Videos

Something for the weekend: Starpainter “I Found a River”

June 12, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week and we leave you dear reader with a new video for a new song by Alberta-based sextet Starpainter which YES I KNOW we ran last week, but Jon […]
artwork for Kris Drever album "Doing This For Love"
Album Reviews

Kris Drever “Doing This For Love”

June 12, 2026 2
Meditations on the unglamorous, but with melodic hooks, from Scottish folk-award winner Anyone coming to this album for their first experience of Kris Drever may well be expecting something fairly traditional in light of his many […]
Cover art for Jesse Colin Young album "Light Shine"
Classic Clips

Classic Clips: Jesse Colin Young “Darkness Darkness” – All Star Jam, Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey, 1984

June 12, 2026 0
Jesse Colin Young passed away just over a year ago, on the 16th of March, at the age of eighty-three. Born Perry Miller and raised in Queens, New York, to musical parents, Young initially found fame […]

  • Something for the weekend: Starpainter “I Found a River”
  • Kris Drever “Doing This For Love”
  • Classic Clips: Jesse Colin Young “Darkness Darkness” – All Star Jam, Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey, 1984
  • Kiefer Sutherland “Grey”
  • Live Review: Aldous Harding + Vera Ellen, The Barbican, London – 31st May 2026
  • The latest AUK Podcast now available featuring Fruit Bats’ Eric B Johnson
  • The Joel Affair “Honest Opinion” – thank you Jeff Tweedy
  • Video: The Hanging Stars “Let It Slide” – you sold all my clothes for a cheap night out
  • Essentials: The Top 10 Americana Tribute Albums
  • Book Review: Paul Slade “Blood On The Leaves”
Billy Bragg Bob Dylan Bruce Springsteen Chuck Prophet Courtney Marie Andrews Dean Owens Drive By Truckers Emmylou Harris Jason Isbell Johnny Cash John Prine Lucinda Williams Margo Price Neil Young Peter Bruntnell Robert Vincent Ryan Adams Steve Earle Sturgill Simpson The Band The Byrds The Delines Tom Petty Wilco Willie Nelson
  • Chas Lacey: Thank you Angus. I hope to catch him in September.
  • Angus MacSwan: Nice review. Great gig at King’s Place a few weeks ago.
  • Jeremy Courtnadge: I've always thought Dirk Powell is an American music treasure. I've not yet had the chance to see him 'solo'…

Latest interviews

Interviews

Interview: Dirk Powell on “Wake” and bridging modern and age-old roots music

June 11, 2026 1
Dirk Powell is a special kind of musician, someone who, through family connections, knows and understands both Appalachia and Cajun music, and is at the same time comfortable with modern music technology. He has won four […]
Interviews

Interview: Ma Polaine’s Great Decline is thriving

June 10, 2026 0
With influences in blues, jazz and country, Ma Polaine’s Great Decline is actually thriving on their fifth album, Monster Swan (2025). Based in Somerset, England, Beth Packer’s distinctive, emotive vocals, coupled with her evocative lyrics, create […]
Interviews

Interview: Greg Loftus – As both musician and carpenter, he would like to knock on wood

June 5, 2026 1
Greg Loftus comes from the town of Bourne, not far from the bridge that connects Massachusetts to Cape Cod. It is there that he practices woodworking, operates a club in nearby Falmouth and makes rock music […]

You may have missed…

Can't Live with it, Can't Live without it

Can’t Live With it, Can’t Live Without It: Warren Zevon

December 11, 2024 6
I suppose part of the worth of this feature is, having selected an artist, you choose a favourite album, and then, pick another and damn it with faint praise. Here at AUK we’re not really in […]
Album Reviews

Lavinia Blackwall “The Making”

July 9, 2025 0
Lavinia Blackwall’s “The Making” is a welcome addition to the canon of Baroque pop. “The Making” is an extremely well-produced album, the result of collaboration between Blackwall and her partner, Marco Rea, with help from Thomas […]
Videos

Video Premiere: Nicholas Johnson “Middle of Nowhere, Ohio”

March 1, 2023 0
Nicholas Johnson takes us on a visually charming, animated tour of Ohio in his latest single.  The video, created by Katie Ann Marks is colourful and brilliantly put together but Johnsons’ words are a stark contrast, […]

© Americana UK 2026, a website based in the People's Republic of Liverpool