September 2025 – Page 36

Got talent? Welcome to The Twang Factor Season 4

September 1, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

Resuming a very successful series, The Twang Factor is back to find the best new and emerging americana acts. Get amped up! With the competition hotter than ever, AUK is accepting entries for the 4th season […]

Ron Sexsmith “Hangover Terrace”

September 1, 2025 Darren Lumbroso 0

An album filled with melancholic pop-folk and baroque elegance, ranging from warm acoustic nostalgia to articulate social commentary. The title for Ron Sexsmith’s 18th album is based on jokes his drummer, Don Kerr, made as they […]

Tom Waits to release 50th anniversary vinyl reissue of “Nighthawks At The Diner” in October

September 1, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

October marks the 50th anniversary of Tom Waits’ 1975 album “Nighthawks at the Diner” originally released on Asylum Records. The reissue via ANTI- Records will come out on 24th October 2025. The label is celebrating the […]

Interview : Pete Droge gets emotional and looks back on a star-studded career

September 1, 2025 Paul Russell 0

Pete Droge has been making music now for over thirty years, since making his debut album, 1994’s “Necktie Second”. His early music mixed the grungier rock sound that Seattle was famous for, but his music has […]

Artwork for Grant-Lee Phillips album “In the Hour of Dust”

Grant-Lee Phillips “In the Hour of Dust”

September 1, 2025 Peter Thompson 0

A thoughtful, introspective, at times autobiographical album by a renowned singer, songwriter and painter. Although known for his musical exploits, Grant-Lee Phillips first started out as a visual artist; however, on arriving in Los Angeles in […]

RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Far From Saints - Far From Saints (vinyl)
By Peter Thompson , 3 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Ryan Adams - The Suicide Handbook (vinyl)
By Peter Thompson , 4 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Mudcrutch - Mudcrutch (vinyl)
By Peter Thompson , 1 week ago
RE: There's no future in nostalgia
Stonehenge was a fucking mess every time but it was a b...
By Keith Hargreaves , 1 week ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Great shout John I’m new here -Gil Scott Heron wh...
By Keith Hargreaves , 1 week ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Neil Young - Citizen Kane Jr
By John , 1 week ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Clarence White would have been 82 today. A little remin...
By Martin Johnson , 2 weeks ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Ryan Bingham and The Texas Gentlemen - The Call Us The ...
By Peter Thompson , 2 weeks ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
The Highwomen - Live at The Gorge 2023 (streaming - Qob...
By Peter Thompson , 2 weeks ago

Video Interview: Susto’s Justin Osbourne on Susto Stringband

June 18, 2026 0

Susto are an American indie band who have managed to build their own following with their individual take on alt-country and americana that reflects the fact that they were formed in Charleston, South Carolina. Justin Osbourne […]

Anniversary Cheers: Darren Hayman and the Long Parliament “The Violence”

June 18, 2026 0

English folk chronicler re-releases his finest achievement, remastered and with extra tracks and a bonus EP re-release. Darren Hayman is an Essex boy, born in Brentwood in 1970. Although he was influenced by the emergence of […]

AUK’s Monthly EP Round-Up – June 2026

June 18, 2026 0

Goodness me! June already. Where has the time gone? One minute it was winter, leaden skies delivering rain almost daily, and then suddenly it was summer, leaden skies delivering more rain daily. Ah, well, at least […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Susto’s Justin Osbourne on Susto Stringband

June 18, 2026 0

Interviews

Interview: Tinsley Ellis brings the good word acoustically nowadays

June 17, 2026 0

In 2025, Tinsley Ellis returned to the deep roots of the blues after the success of his previous album, Naked Truth (Alligator Records, 2024). There are many different styles of playing wrapped up in his music, […]

Interviews

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

June 11, 2026 2

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 […]

Album Reviews

Jake Swamp and The Pine “Outside the Studio”

May 12, 2021 0

Jake Swamp and The Pine recorded a socially distanced EP outdoors to keep up the momentum of creating their stripped-down, heartfelt acoustic music. Americana-folk duo Drew Zieff (vocals, guitar) and Stuart Babcock (mandolin, harmonies) take their […]

Album Reviews

Blake Brown & The American Dust Choir “Show Me The Light”

October 18, 2024 0

Ten songs of americana-tinged and occasionally anthemic pop-rock. Following the release of his 2022 EP, “Don’t Look Back”, Blake Brown moved to Austin from Nashville. There he was introduced to producer Chris ‘Frenchie’ Smith with whom […]

Album Reviews

Vanessa Peters “Flying on Instruments”

March 5, 2024 0

Texan singer-songwriter leaves the past and steps bravely into her new world. After majoring in creative writing at the prestigious A & M University in Texas, Vanessa Peters was set to become a novelist. Instead, with […]

Month: September 2025

Got talent? Welcome to The Twang Factor Season 4

Ron Sexsmith “Hangover Terrace”

Tom Waits to release 50th anniversary vinyl reissue of “Nighthawks At The Diner” in October

Interview : Pete Droge gets emotional and looks back on a star-studded career

Grant-Lee Phillips “In the Hour of Dust”

Video Interview: Susto’s Justin Osbourne on Susto Stringband

Anniversary Cheers: Darren Hayman and the Long Parliament “The Violence”

AUK’s Monthly EP Round-Up – June 2026

EELS set to release their 16th album “Cookie Happened” in October… on the 16th

Pillarstone “Mono Lit”