2025 – Page 397 – Americana UK

A valentine from The Lumineers with “Automatic”

January 10, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

The Lumineers have announced the release of their highly anticipated new album, “Automatic”, available via Dualtone on Friday, 14th February 2025. It’s the band’s fifth studio album and their first new collection in more than three […]

Ringo Starr “Look Up”

January 10, 2025 Martin Johnson 0

What real country music could sound like in 2025. Life is full of surprises, and while a new album from 84-year-old Ringo Starr after a three-year gap is surprising in itself, the fact that it is […]

Kentucky “Runway” – like for ‘planes

January 10, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Who is Kentucky? Perhaps slightly surprisingly Jordan Holman, the man behind the moniker, is a Canadian who was originally from Edmonton but is now based in Almonte, Ontario. He was raised with music woven deep into […]

Video: Massy Ferguson “When You’re Not Around”

January 10, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0

Check out the recent single from Seattle group Massy Ferguson. “When You’re Not Around” is a catchy, upbeat song that courses along on driving rhythms and jangling guitar. Over the compelling instrumentation, Ethan Anderson’s voice has […]

Essentials: The Top Ten 10,000 Maniacs Songs

January 9, 2025 Andy Short 9

The 10,000 Maniacs from Jamestown, New York, formed in 1981. They have a catalogue of alternative indie American rock, and with the band still on the back burner, there is possibly more to come. The Maniacs […]

RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Jerry Jeff Walker - Cowboy Boots and Bathin’ Suits
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Jimmy Buffett - A1A
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Chris Knight - Chris Knight
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Hurray for the Riff Raff - Live Forever
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Old 97s - Too Far to Care
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R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
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Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac
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Wilco - summerteeth
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Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun
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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Album Reviews

jasmine.4.t “You Are The Morning”

January 17, 2025 0

Gender and genre worlds collide in Manchester. This is a brave record. In the video for the single ‘Elephant’ there are repeating clips of Jasmine playing an acoustic in her bedroom. It is not hard to […]

AUK Mini-Gigs

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Jon Stancer

March 4, 2022 0

Here is the latest of our occasional mini-gigs, a series of exclusive performances that we started when lockdowns put a stop to live music. Although concerts and shows have returned, these live recordings continue to allow […]

Book Reviews

Review: “Blue Navigator 12” – edited by Brendan Foreman

March 10, 2025 0

The latest edition of ‘Blue Navigator‘, a publication which essentially started off as a “fanzine,” dedicated to the life and music of the celebrated American singer/songwriter Michael Hurley, is a hardbound, 96 page book. The pinnacle […]

Year: 2025

A valentine from The Lumineers with “Automatic”

Ringo Starr “Look Up”

Kentucky “Runway” – like for ‘planes

Video: Massy Ferguson “When You’re Not Around”

Essentials: The Top Ten 10,000 Maniacs Songs

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”