Columns
Sounds from beyond the Shed 192 “New Van”
Ever since this column began, I have, on occasion, bored you, dear reader, with my tales from the road as I’ve driven round the UK and Europe in our brilliant van, Pierre, so named because he […]
Year: 2025
Tracks
Anna Tivel “White Goose” – lost, lost, never to return
‘White Goose‘ is a meditation on things that are gone and is shot through with regret. Mistakes and regrets and not only for the tangible things “the ghost of everything we loved and everything we didn’t […]
Videos
Video: Hayes Carll “We’re Only Human”
The aching, piano-driven new song from Hayes Carll reflects on the universal human experience. He sings of love and loss, tragedies and mistakes, fear and hope, blame and shame; it’s all here, all that makes the […]
News
Not Dead Yet – Woody Guthrie’s last recordings emerge 75 years later
Yes, you read that headline correctly. Seventy-five years late, twenty-two previously unreleased tracks from 1951-1952 home tapes, including 13 songs never recorded elsewhere, and rare ‘This Land is Your Land’ verses have been rediscovered and are to […]
Album Reviews
Grain Thief “House Of The Dog”
A musically fun, if sometimes lyrically dark, fifth full-length from Boston string band Grain Thief. One of the benefits of reviewing albums for AUK is getting to hear artists that would almost certainly have gone unnoticed […]