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Classic Clips: Billy Bragg, Hank Wangford and Brendan Croker “Sin City” – Live on the Whistle Test, Rock Around the Clock, 21st September 1986

May 8, 2026 Darren Lumbroso 1
The Old Grey Whistle Test (which in its final years was abbreviated to the Whistle Test) was commissioned by David Attenborough and ran from 1971 to 1988. Broadcast annually on BBC Two between 1984 and 1986, […]
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Trippers & Askers “Tried To Do’s”

May 8, 2026 Peter Thompson 0
Invest time and listen carefully, and you may find reward with this deep, introspective record. Trippers & Askers is the recording and songwriting project of Jay Hammond, musician, sound artist, educator and researcher. He is currently […]
Columns

Make Americana Great Again: Deus Ex Musica

May 8, 2026 Dean Nardi 0
Some years ago, the director Alex Garland made a movie with a title similar to this column, except it was Ex Machina, not Musica, which I’m guessing is the Latin word for “music.” Although Deus or […]
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The Latest AUK Podcast is now available featuring UNCUT legend Allan Jones on all things Americana and beyond

May 8, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 2
This week sees Keith talking to one of his heroes, the journalist Allan Jones, once editor of Melody Maker and founder of UNCUT magazine, now a gentleman of the arts and letters whose tastes still exert […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: Brown Horse + Elanor Moss, St Stephen’s Church, Ipswich – 18th April 2026

May 8, 2026 Andrew Frolish 0
St Stephen’s Church in Ipswich is a venue that invites atmosphere. With its vaulted ceiling, wooden beams, and resonant acoustics, it’s a space where music doesn’t just sound; it lingers, rises, and expands. On this April […]

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Robert Plant to receive Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award

July 27, 2026 0
The Americana Music Association has announced that singer, songwriter and musical trailblazer Robert Plant will receive the Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award during the 25th Annual Americana Honours & Awards, taking place on 16th September 2026, at […]
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Tucker Zimmerman “Dream Me A Dream”

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Posthumous studio album from literate Californian singer-songwriter turns dreams into songs, providing a fitting epitaph for one of life’s truly great maverick artists. The sub-zero temperatures that covered the bulk of the UK during the first […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed 241 “Back in the swim”

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Several years ago, while still teaching, my morning routine took me to the local swimming pool at six thirty every morning, where I would pull on some awful budgie smugglers and swim a kilometre at a […]

  • Robert Plant to receive Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Tucker Zimmerman “Dream Me A Dream”
  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 241 “Back in the swim”
  • Morton Valence “So Far Away” – all the distance inbetween
  • Video: James White & The Wild Fire “The Girl From Fort Worth” – peace on the other side
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Interview: The Lives of Famous Men take the elevator upward

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End Times Elevator Music is a special record to behold. From the Link Wray fuzz guitar rumbles on opener No Alarm to the title track closer, which arrives like Ben Schneider and Brendan Urie collaborated, there […]
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Interview: Have Gun, Will Travel is constantly evolving – What a concept!

July 22, 2026 0
Have Gun, Will Travel is the name of the band with the emphasis on travel. Not so much touring all over the world, but exploration, whether in their three concept albums or the songs written for […]
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Video Interview: Alex Amen on “Sun Of Amen” as he comes of age as a songwriter

July 21, 2026 4
Alex Amen is making waves as one of the new breed of songwriters to keep a very close eye on. Born in Texas, he has lived in communes on the West Coast, formed and played in […]

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When Joshua Hedley hits the stage shortly after 9.30 this evening it’s to croon the almost jazzy supper club-sounding ‘Nightlife,’ the loose nature of which has him effortlessly accompanied by his backing band, the Hedliners. A […]
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The New Pornographers “The Former Site of”

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Band’s tenth album sees them produce an emotionally rich body of work. It’s been almost 30 years since AC Newman formed The New Pornographers and over a quarter of a century since their debut album was […]
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AmericanA to Z: Simone Felice

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When Simone was thirteen, he died. He flatlined in a frozen New York state January after suffering a brain haemorrhage. No one expected him to make it, but somehow he did. The doctors had to remove […]

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