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Video: Charm of Finches “Meteor”

January 14, 2026 Andrew Frolish 0
Here is the mesmerising new song from Australian folk-pop duo Charm of Finches. Sisters Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes once again deliver lush harmonies and melodic beauty over delicate instrumentation in the haunting ‘Meteor’. The song grows […]
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Interview: Trevor Sensor on connection, bataille and love in the time of confusion

January 13, 2026 Dean Nardi 0
“Are you really real, do you feel the same thing that I do, girl, when I touch you, girl?” ~ Ricky Nelson According to iconic filmmaker Federico Fellini, “The visionary is the only true realist.” Before […]
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More People Really Should Know About: Melanie Ida Chopko

January 13, 2026 Dean Nardi 0
Connection was the emotional mood North Carolina’s Melanie Ida Chopko was looking for on her second album, “Never Had a Love Like This” (2025). But it is a personal form of that sentiment, and the intimate […]
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Anniversary Cheers: The Delines “The Scenic Sessions” gets a wider release for its 10th birthday

January 13, 2026 Tim Martin 0
Having topped the annual writers’ poll for album of the year and made number 3 with our readers for their 2025 offering “Mr Luck and Ms Doom”, you’d think it might be time for The Delines […]
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Folk Roundup – Spafford & Campbell, Mikey Kenney, Merlyn Driver, Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Silvola, Eva Goodman & SERA, Kate Gregory and Brendan Hearn, Sons Of Perdition

January 13, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0
A new year and a new batch of folk albums to listen to and review. A small confession, some of these have been awaiting review for a short while, so this is also something of a […]

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I think we all know that times are hard, in virtually all respects, but financially, things have been tough for a long while. Every time it looks like there might be some respite, along comes another […]
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Great Willow “Age Of Reason” – Bing bing, bong bong bong, bing bing

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It has been a while, quite a while, since we last featured Great Willow (although we have heard more recently from James Combs, one half of the duo), so it’s really nice to have some new […]
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Video Premiere: The Sensational Country Blues Wonders! (Gary Van Miert) “A Mad Tea Party”

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Disappear down the rabbit hole with the latest single from The Sensational Country Blues Wonders!, the musical project of New Jersey-based musician and performer Gary Van Miert. The video for The Mad Tea Party is a […]

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

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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

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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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Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

May 18, 2026 1
At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

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Neil Young announces release of “lost” album “Johnny’s Island”

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Neil Young has announced the release of a  “lost” album from the 1980s, ‘Johnny’s Island’. The record will be released as part of the musician’s Archives project, which has seen him share a series of unreleased […]
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The Lone Bellow “Wonder” – Listen

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The Lone Bellow – Zach Williams, Kanene Donehey Pipkin, Brian Elmquist – have announced the release of their new album, ‘Half Moon Light‘ (Dualtone Records, an Entertainment One Company).  It’s  the band’s fourth studio LP and […]
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It’s the 2024 AUK Readers Poll! Vote for your favourite americana from the last year

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There are 3 days left to vote for your favourite Americana from the last 12 months! The stuff that’s resonated with you throughout the year, the stuff that you’ll still be talking about this time next […]

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