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Live Review: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, British Airways ARC, London – 8th July 2026

July 15, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0
And it’s off to another new venue in London, prestigiously located at Olympia in one of those surprisingly hard to get to parts of London.  Few are the venues that feel the need to post outlying […]
Cover art for Max Subar album "Anything Could Be"
Album Reviews

Max Subar “Anything Could Be”

July 15, 2026 Graeme Tait 4
Chicago singer-songwriter’s highly promising debut album explores the ceaseless ebb and flow of life’s hopes and fears. Recorded in a house on the shore overlooking a frozen lake in Wisconsin, while nature lay dormant beneath a […]
Tracks

Park Hills Circle “All Of A Sudden” – seasons change

July 15, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0
Park Hills Circle is the solo project of Maris Tierney, and Alaskan-Irish singer-songwriter who lives in Chicago.  She’s just released the debut album All Of A Sudden, and today we have the title track to share.  Maris is […]
Videos

Video Premiere: The Kennedys “Without Us” – nature might do better

July 15, 2026 Andrew Frolish 0
Here is the video for Without Us, the new single from folk duo The Kennedys. Through the song, singer-songwriters Pete Kennedy and Maura Kennedy explore the impact that humans have on the world around us, the […]
News

Hollow Hand announces new album for September and UK Tour

July 14, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0
Hollow Hand, the project of Brighton’s Max Kinghorn-Mills, steps out of the bedroom on Wish Road South, recorded live as a trio after touring with MJ Lenderman and Caitlin Rose. The album comes out on the […]

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Something for the weekend: Son Volt “If I Could”

July 17, 2026 1
Well that’s it from us for this week and we leave you dear reader with a new song from alt-country heroes/pioneers/stalwarts/choose your own noun Son Volt whose latest album Sound Signal Serenades was physically released on […]
Artwork for Bell White album "A sign in the weather"
Album Reviews

Bella White “A Sign In The Weather”

July 17, 2026 0
A strong third album from the rootsy Canadian “Appalachian” artist from New Orleans showing raw emotion and a degree of post-breakup positivity. As you listen to each song on Bella White’s new studio album you feel […]
News

Jawdropped have a “Secret To Spare” and October dates

July 17, 2026 0
Jawdropped, a four-piece from Los Angeles, have announced their debut album, Secret To Spare, due 18th September via Transgressive Records / Canvasback. The band has also released the first single, Split Lip, along with a video […]

  • Something for the weekend: Son Volt “If I Could”
  • Bella White “A Sign In The Weather”
  • Jawdropped have a “Secret To Spare” and October dates
  • Classic Clips: Anna Tivel “Rodeo Queens” – She’s Speaking
  • Paperback Riders: Dennis McNally “A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead”
  • Bob Dylan announces 2026 UK tour
  • Hell in a Handcart: What about the Babel Fish?
  • The latest AUK Podcast now available featuring Paul Sexton
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Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for

July 16, 2026 0
Nothing I Can’t Undo is such a deeply earnest, empathetic and personal album that captures exactly what a solo debut is supposed to be by introducing us, in full, to Taylor Bickett, a 20-something singer/songwriter from […]
Interviews

Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0
Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]
Interviews

Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations

July 7, 2026 1
Like the old sailors of yore, Hank Alrich sure knows how to spin a yarn, though I doubt his are made up or heavily stretched. They keep your attention. I would contentedly sit in an armchair […]

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NPR are being good to us again this week – they’re carrying the new Neil Young video (which is really quite lovely) with the following blurb: “When Neil Young gets fired up, sometimes his best music […]
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Joshua Burnside “Live At The Elmwood Hall” (Quiet Arch Records, 2019)

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Releasing a live album can be a risky business. Capturing the essence of a show in a recording isn’t always easy. Credit then to Northern Irish singer-songwriter Joshua Burnside who, with ‘Live at The Elmwood Hall’ […]
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Small Venue Heroes: The Handsome Family

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If there ever was a band that could be described as the essence of modern Americana, it is Chicago’s The Handsome Family. The husband and wife duo of Brett and Rennie Sparks, with an occasional cast […]

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