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Night Flight “Exit Stage Left”

January 12, 2026 NickBarber 0
An Elliott Smith-inspired, soulful, and introspective chillout set of songs. Not to be confused with a similarly named Swedish rock band, London’s Night Flight are now on their third album – and again, there’s no connection […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed 217 “The Lowdown”

January 12, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0
I’m not one for promoting corporate things, but I must make an exception for the Disney series “The Lowdown” which features Ethan Hawke and a wonderful cast of supporting players as it unfolds a tale of […]
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Ty Segall & The Muggers “Candy Sam” – predictably, we want Candy

January 12, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0
Here’s a slice of americana from the “loud end” of the genre’s spectrum – where we also find, some of the time, the likes of Neil Young. ‘Candy Sam‘ is, Ty Segall has stated, a live […]
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Video: Edward Abbiati “Time Moves On: 5 Minutes”

January 12, 2026 Andrew Frolish 0
Anglo-Italian Edward Abbiati’s new single is a thought-provoking response to the times we’re living in. With conflicts like Ukraine and Gaza in mind, the former Lowlands frontman explores the idea of a civilian having to leave […]
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Something for the weekend: Jesse Welles and Joan Baez “No Kings”

January 9, 2026 Mark Whitfield 0
Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. If you’re an AUK supporter your new playlist along with this month’s fabulous giveaway will be with you at 5pm. In the meantime we leave you […]

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Anniversary Cheers: The Handsome Family “Singing Bones”

May 26, 2026 0
An addition to our Anniversary Cheers occasional Feature: this is The Handsome Family with a re-release, with additional outtakes and live recordings, of the excellent Singing Bones. The Handsome Family are Brett and Rennie Sparks, a […]
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Preview: Gate To Southwell Festival 2026 in July features The Proclaimers and Richard Thompson

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With only a few weeks to go until the 19th Gate To Southwell Festival, fans are looking forward to this four-day event in rural Nottinghamshire which runs from 2nd-5th July. The festival features more than 60 […]
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Live Review: Cowboy Junkies, London Palladium, London – 11th May 2026

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The Timmins family (and a close friend) band has reached the milestone of forty years as a band and forty years since their debut album, Whites Off Earth Now!!, and for their current tour, they have […]

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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

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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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Track Premiere: Mabilene “How Glad I Am”

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With a household full of the Country and Top 40 music of her parents, Houston raised Mabilene grew up with the Trio (Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, and Emmylou Harris) in one ear and ‘Born to Run‘ […]
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Lilly Hiatt announces dates and UK release date for new album

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Lilly Hiatt’s “Trinity Lane” has its UK release on February 2nd 2018 via New West Records and she’s also announced UK dates for April. The 12-song set was produced by Michael Trent of Shovels & Rope and […]
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Songs for the apocalypse: The Avett Brothers “Mama, I Don’t Believe”

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North Carolina’s Avett Brothers consisting of two actual brothers (Scott and Seth) along with fellow bandmates have been around for almost two decades now, and each album becomes more musically accomplished than the last. The San […]

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