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For the Sake of the Song: Maria McKee “Am I The Only One (Who’s Ever Felt This Way?)”

August 4, 2025 Fiona Golden 0
In her 1967 essay “Goodbye to All That”, Joan Didion wrote that young adults always have the curse of “conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before”. […]
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Night Moves “Double Life”

August 4, 2025 Helen Jones 0
Artful production and clever lyrics make the band’s fourth album in six years a standout. A note to any songwriters out there: if you’re going to write of the struggles or doubts in your relationship, it’s […]
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Live Review: My Darling Clementine @ The Fallen Angels Club, The Glad Cafe, Glasgow – 27th July 2025

August 4, 2025 Paul Kerr 2
It was a good-sized crowd who packed into Glasgow’s Glad Café on a Sunday afternoon for a new series of occasional matinee sessions promoted by Kevin Morris’ Fallen Angels Club. The draw was the return, after […]
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Book Review: Barry Mazor “Blood Harmony: The Everly Brothers Story”

August 4, 2025 Rick Bayles 2
Though they’ve always been known for those sublime, spine-tingling vocal harmonies, it can be hard to understand just how important the Everly Brothers are in modern music. They weren’t the first to use close harmony singing; […]
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Minor Gold “Way To The Sun”

August 4, 2025 Paul Kerr 0
Retro California sounds brought bang up to date. This is the second album from the Australian-based duo Minor Gold (Australian Dan Parsons and Canadian Tracy McNeil), the pair originally bonding in McNeil’s band, Tracy McNeil & […]

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Book review: Richard Houghton “Iain Matthews: A People’s History”

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Something for the weekend: This is Lorelie “Where’s Your Love Now (Waxahatchee Version)”

April 17, 2026 0
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 […]
Interviews

Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

April 17, 2026 0
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 […]
Album Reviews

Remedy Motel “Counting Sand”

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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

April 17, 2026 0
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

April 13, 2026 0
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

April 7, 2026 0
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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Caroline Spence + Roseanne Reid, Night & Day Café, Manchester, 24th October 2019

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Reviewing Caroline Spence’s recent ‘Mint Condition’ album for AUK, fellow writer Rick Bayles awarded it that rare accolade a 10/10 score, describing it as “flawless” and “an early contender for album of the year.” A glowing […]
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Songs for the apocalypse: Great Lakes “Precious and Reckless”

July 17, 2019 0
Occasionally here at AUK we get sent an album which we probably wouldn’t have come across in a million years had someone not thought to wing it our way but which blows our collective mind. ‘Diamond […]
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Interview: Lady Nade discusses her AMAUK nomination and the Music Venue Trust

January 6, 2021 0
Bristol’s own Lady Nade shares her joy at being nominated for Best Song Of The Year at AMAUK Awards 2021 and explains why she is a patron of the Music Venue Trust No one can argue […]

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