September 2025 – Page 22

Something for the weekend: Josh Ritter “Wild Ways”

September 12, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. The always excellent Josh Ritter’s new album “I Believe in You, My Honeydew” is out today on Thirty Tigers and he’s released a new song from […]

The Far West “Everything We Thought We Wanted”

September 12, 2025 Jonny Brick 0

Happy-sad third album from SoCal country-rockers. The pitch for the music of The Far West, whose new album is their first since 2014, is “horribly painful songs that you can dance to”, according to bass player […]

Paperback Riders: Kim Stanley Robinson “The Years of Rice and Salt”

September 12, 2025 Tim Martin 0

One of the most interesting history books of the last decade or so was Peter Frankopan’s ‘The Silk Roads.’ His premise is that the historical centre of the world isn’t North West Europe, but somewhere between […]

Lucinda Williams @ Fitzgerald Theater, St Paul. 14 April 2019

Classic Clips: Lucinda Williams “Drunken Angel” – Austin City Limits, 1998

September 12, 2025 Chas Lacey 1

‘Drunken Angel’ is about a man who released only one single before his death in 1989 yet went on to achieve legendary status. Lucinda Williams wrote the song about Blaze Foley, a friend she’d made in […]

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Sarah McQuaid

September 12, 2025 Dean Nardi 1

From her beginnings as a music critic turned folk singer, Sarah McQuaid has evolved into a mature artist with important thoughts to ponder then sing about. It is quite easy to get lost in her music […]