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Vox Continental: January 2026

January 29, 2026 Rick Bayles 0
Vox Continental is back with news of new music from Scandinavia and live events in the Czech Republic, Germany and the Netherlands. It has been a few weeks since our last Vox Continental outing. With this […]
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Bob Lind “It Oughta Be Easy”

January 29, 2026 Paul Russell 0
With 60 years of recordings, Bob Lind is here to stay.   Bob Lind has a mighty back catalogue. He recorded his first album nearly 60 years ago; he’s been recording almost consistently ever since, and his […]
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Bill Scorzari “I Stayed” – featuring Erin Rae

January 29, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0
You’ll recall, well, we hope you’ll recall – that last Autumn we were highlighting the first singles from Bill Scorzari’s staggered double album release “Sidereal Days” which has been split into “Sidereal Days (Day 1)“, which […]
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Video: Mimi O’Bonsawin “Steady” – soul searching is my favourite pastime

January 29, 2026 Andrew Frolish 0
From the opening lines: “Ask me where I wanna be // Look around tell you what I see // Don’t want to be anywhere but here,” Mimi O’Bonsawin’s single ‘Steady’ is so heartfelt and disarmingly emotive that […]
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The Handsome Family celebrate 23 years of “Singing Bones” with deluxe reissue and tour

January 28, 2026 Richard Parkinson 0
The Handsome Family today announce a UK and Irish tour to mark the re-release of their classic album “Singing Bones”.  The album was the 6th album from the husband-and-wife outfit of Brett & Rennie Sparks and […]

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

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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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Leeroy Stagger “Pilgrimage”

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A memorable change in direction in this celebration of rural Celtic communities. Leeroy Stagger, born and raised in rural Vancouver Island before moving to southern Alberta, is a prolific artist. Pilgrimage is his thirteenth studio album, […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Sheryl Crow “Chances Are”

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This song is on Sheryl Crow’s Wildflower album, released in 2005 to lukewarm critical response. It was a low-key collection of songs – no All I Wanna Do or Soak Up the Sun among them – […]

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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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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

May 20, 2026 0
There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]
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Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

May 19, 2026 2
Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]

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Something for the weekend: Laura Marling “Caroline”

January 10, 2025 0
That’s it from us for our first week back and we leave you dear reader with a track which 6 Music has been playing to death this last few weeks and not without good reason – […]
Album Reviews

Minor Gold “Way To The Sun”

August 4, 2025 0
Retro California sounds brought bang up to date. This is the second album from the Australian-based duo Minor Gold (Australian Dan Parsons and Canadian Tracy McNeil), the pair originally bonding in McNeil’s band, Tracy McNeil & […]
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David Luximon “A Certain Frame of Reference”

February 4, 2025 0
Scottish singer-songwriter impresses on second album. David Luximon is a musician and songwriter based in Perthshire Scotland. This, his second album, was self-produced and recorded with the help of Creative Scotland. The album explores Luximon’s transition […]

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