News
AUK launches new weekly podcast
Featuring new tracks, news stories, and interviews – this week, Josh Rouse! If you’ve been a long-time reader of the website you’ll know about our aversion to anything more complex than a valve radio (we have […]
Year: 2025
Album Reviews
Neko Case “Neon Grey Midnight Green”
After an eight year absence Neko Case returns with a richly textured album. In the wake of her harrowing and well reviewed book “The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You: A Memoir” Neko Case delivers […]
Book Reviews
Book Review: Sean Egan “Bruce Springsteen & Born To Run 50 Years”
Half a century on, Bruce Springsteen’s third studio album remains one of the core texts of rock music. Released in August 1975, “Born to Run” helped Springsteen go from a promising, if poorly selling, New Jersey […]
Interviews
Interview: Carolyn Wonderland on the truths that need to be told
Carolyn Wonderland is much more than your average blues guitarist. For one, she’s a woman in a male-dominated genre. Secondly, her choice of material is seriously strong musically and lyrically solid. Third, she keeps that telecaster […]
Album Reviews
Ellen Braun “The Doldrums”
Alberta singer-songwriter starts out becalmed but eventually lifts herself out of “The Doldrums“. “The Doldrums” is the debut solo release from Canadian singer-songwriter Ellen Braun. She is based in Canmore, Alberta and is also a member […]