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Daniel Antopolsky “Old Timey, Soulful, Hippy-Dippy, Flower Child Songs from the Cosmos… Wow! (Unheard Songs of the Early 1970s, Part Two)”

January 26, 2023 Cam Fraser 0
Original Outlaw Country era survivor revisits songs written on the global hippy trail. The story of Daniel Antopolsky’s friendship with Townes Van Zandt and his brief but formative time at the emergence of what became known […]
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Dave Helgi Johan “Drumheller”

December 13, 2022 Cam Fraser 0
Canadian lo-fi indie troubadour relocates across the globe and releases a very promising solo debut album. In 2019 Dave Helgi Johan left his hometown in the small Icelandic community of Gimli, Manitoba, Canada and relocated to […]
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AUK’s Chain Gang: Los Lobos “Will the Wolf Survive?”

December 12, 2022 Cam Fraser 0
In the last AUK Chain Gang Guy Lincoln took us to the West Coast of Scotland and Glasgow’s snarling mavericks, James King and the Lone Wolves, but let’s catch a transatlantic flight to a very different […]
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Patrick Mulroy “Other People’s Houses”

November 29, 2022 Cam Fraser 0
Grain Thief guitarist and vocalist rediscovers his heartland rock roots on his solo outing. Patrick Mulroy is guitarist, vocalist and one of the main songwriters in Boston-based band, Grain Thief. They’ve been described as a grassicana […]
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This Lonesome Paradise “Nightshades”

November 4, 2022 Cam Fraser 0
Dark shades of western noir, neck-high in reverb-drenched gothic twang. Since the release of their debut album, This Lonesome Paradise have relocated to Joshua Tree, CA. That move brought them to the attention of Pat Kearns […]

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Luke Winslow-King “Coast of Light”

March 24, 2026 0
An impressive blues-influenced mixture of laid-back and edgier numbers. Coast of Light is Luke Winslow-King’s ninth album after having debuted with Luke Winslow-King in 2008. It is a bit of an outlier from many of the […]
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Live Review: Beans On Toast + Ruth Lyon + Bassie Gracie, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham – 11th March 2026

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The night opened with Bassie Gracie, a bold spoken word poet grounded in hope, proclaiming that making art can be the remedy to worry. This Celtic-and-proud waif delivered rhythmic anti-racism with barely veiled anger at the […]
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The Montvales “Path Of Totality”

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Folk-tinged harmonies and sophisticated indie-pop for turbulent times. Sally Buice and Molly Rochelson are originally from Knoxville, Tennessee – together they make up The Montvales. During their middle school years, the duo started out by busking […]

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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0
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: Angela Harris “Should Have Known”

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This is the new single from Canadian country singer Angela Harris, taken from her imminent new album A Woman Like Me, out on October 25th.  Always good to get a proper country song here at AUK […]
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Slow Parade “Maybe You’ll Come Around, Again”

April 12, 2024 0
Laid-back americana with a nice groove and engaging words. Slow Parade is songwriter Matthew Pendrick aided and abetted by friends from his home city of Atlanta, Georgia, who met during his decade as part of the […]
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Mike Pope “Songs For People (High & Low)”

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Captivating album from an artist with an experimental edge. Mike Pope is an interesting musician. Seemingly well established on the local scene around San Diego in particular, and Southern California in general, he has avoided making […]

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