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Videos

Video: The Doohickeys “Santa Needs a Beer”

December 23, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0
So this is it – my final video post of the year before AUK puts its collective feet up for Christmas. It had to be a new festive song, so here is Los Angeles-based duo The […]
News

Americana UK’s album of 2025 is The Delines “Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom”

December 22, 2025 Mark Whitfield 1
It might have seemed that this choice was on the cards all along, Americana UK has hardly hidden its collective love for The Delines under a bushel – but then look at the rest of the […]
Mavis Staples
Features

Americana UK’s Top 20 albums of 2025: 10-2

December 22, 2025 Mark Whitfield 4
On Friday we began our countdown of our favourite albums of the year as collectively chosen by AUK’s writing team. We continue our countdown today from 10-2, and at 2pm we’ll be announcing our album of […]
Corinne West
Features

For the sake of the song: Corinne West “Trouble No More”

December 22, 2025 FredArnold 0
For someone so talented, it is a mystery that the truly excellent Corinne West has largely flown under the radar, and this despite getting rave reviews for her albums, a sublime mix of folk, country, and […]
Album Reviews

Boy & Bear “Tripping Over Time”

December 22, 2025 Helen Jones 0
Indie rock with a new wave edge finds a band that’s invigorated on their sixth release. Time felt a little different for Australian indie band Boy & Bear when they were working on their sixth studio […]

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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Buffalo Springfield

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Doug Mishkin “Tip Of The Spear”

Album Reviews
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Paul Metsa “Songs of Resistance & Resolve: 1984–2025”

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Ferris and Sylvester proclaim “It’s a Joy To Be Alive”

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It was fifty years and five months today…

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A picture of the members of Buffalo Springfield, including Neil Young and Stephen Stills -
Can't Live with it, Can't Live without it

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Buffalo Springfield

June 3, 2026 1
There’s something about Buffalo Springfield. I can’t quite put my finger on it. Their work is shrouded in a haze. That is, it’s hard to look at anything that Stephen Stills or Neil Young did on […]
Album Reviews

Doug Mishkin “Tip Of The Spear”

June 3, 2026 0
A veteran activist singer-songwriter releases his latest bulletin on our troubled times, mixed in with more personal musings. Think of protest music, and one thinks of 1960s America, when the Vietnam War, in particular, inspired a […]
Album Reviews

Paul Metsa “Songs of Resistance & Resolve: 1984–2025”

June 3, 2026 0
Collection spanning the Minnesotan’s career highlights how fighting for justice is as important now as it ever was. When you think of americana and protest music, the striking image of Woody Guthrie brandishing his guitar with […]

  • Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Buffalo Springfield
  • Doug Mishkin “Tip Of The Spear”
  • Paul Metsa “Songs of Resistance & Resolve: 1984–2025”
  • Ferris and Sylvester proclaim “It’s a Joy To Be Alive”
  • It was fifty years and five months today…
  • Nathan Evans Fox “Heirloom”
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Interviews

Interview: Ben Vaughn on being true to yourself and the joys of recording an album in your car

May 29, 2026 0
To say Ben Vaughn has had an eclectic musical career would be a gross understatement. He grew up in the Philadelphia area, and his journey into music began when a kind uncle gave him a Duane […]
Interviews

Interview: Beau Jennings – In Tribute to Will Rogers and the Verdigris

May 27, 2026 0
If History was your favourite class in school, raise your digital hand. Only two? Come on, the subject is not that dull. Now pay attention. Today, we are going to learn about a river called the […]
Interviews

Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

May 26, 2026 3
Chicago-born and LA-based singer-songwriter Truman Sinclair will be a new name to many AUK readers, although the more observant of you will have noticed his song Joel Roberts topped my top tracks of 2025 list published […]

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Obituaries

The Song Remains: Steve Weber 1943-2020

April 7, 2020 0
The death of Steve Weber, one half of the fabled Holy Modal Rounders, progenitors of underground then psychedelic and eventually freak-folk has, for the most part gone unnoticed. The Rounders, a guitar, banjo and fiddle duo […]
Videos

Video: Jack Francis “Failure”

March 15, 2024 0
Jack Francis is an outstanding songwriter and this new single, ‘Failure’, is well-crafted, timeless music in the vein of Courtney Marie Andrews.  Francis delivers direct, disarming lyrics with wit, compelling melody, upbeat rhythms and engaging sonic […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: The Staves, The Barbican, London – 22nd November 2022

November 29, 2022 0
The Staves – Emily Staveley-Taylor, Jess Staveley-Taylor and Camilla Staveley-Taylor – can fairly be said to be indie-new-folk superstars since shortening their band name from The Staveley-Taylors to the more punchy The Staves and releasing the […]

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