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AUK’s EP Round-Up – December 2023

December 22, 2023 Alan Fitter 0
Here we are at the end of another year – who knows where the time goes? So it being December, it is of course the last EP round up of 2023 and as usual there’s an […]
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AUK’s EP Round-Up – November 2023

November 24, 2023 Alan Fitter 0
It’s that time again and here’s a round-up of this month’s EP releases. We’ve had a lot of submissions recently (because it’s not long to Christmas?) so there is no time or space to analyse each […]
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AUK’s EP Round-Up October 2023

October 27, 2023 Alan Fitter 0
It’s that time again and here’s a round-up of this month’s EP releases. And to prove that americana music doesn’t have to be made in Nashville or Muskogee, this month we have music recorded in Winterthur […]
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EP Round-Up September 2023

September 18, 2023 Alan Fitter 0
Welcome to the first of our regular EP Round-Ups. Wikipedia defines an EP as: “A musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record”. Most EPs play at […]
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Stellar Jays “Early Winters”

August 23, 2023 Alan Fitter 0
A superb debut album from the Seattle-based band that has something for everyone. In these days of streaming, it probably doesn’t matter what the first track on an album is as the listener can decide what […]

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Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

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Album Reviews

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

March 23, 2026 0
An ambitious debut album that bravely tackles some very British subjects with an americana-folk twang. The genre may be americana – and America is most certainly struggling with its own set of problems right now – […]
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Jack Studer “Falling Forward”

March 23, 2026 0
An album with some credible moments and interesting songs which lay the foundations for his solo career. Country music can divide opinion at the best of times. It’s praised for its tropes and cliches as often […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed 228 “Don’t Panic”

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The last three weeks have been a struggle. The events in the Middle East have been horrific in their scale and scope. These are events of global significance, and if we didn’t know it then, we […]

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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

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While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]
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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2
At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

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Video Premiere: Vicky Emerson “The Reckoning”

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From her new album Steady Heart, out now, this is Minneapolis singer-songwriter Vicky Emerson singing about the storm rolling in.  A driving, dramatic and every so slightly gothic country song , it’s a delight.  Great video […]

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