Jonathan Aird

Joshua Ketchmark “The Misses” (Independent, 2018)

October 9, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

Joshua Ketchmark’s latest album ‘The Misses’ opens with high power rock: ‘Cold Feet’ stomps all over another’s tendency to hold back and hesitate. It has a radio-ready feel that reflects the kind of bands that inspired […]

Tyler Childers, Dingwalls, London, 4th September 2018

October 8, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

Suddenly the Summer was behind us, a chill in the air and the streets of London were already getting dark, but not dark yet. There’s a chill wind around Hampstead Road Lock 1’s double-double lock. Dingwalls […]

Track premiere: Larkin Poe “Sometimes”

October 4, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

Larkin Poe have a new album coming out at the start of November: entitled ‘Venom & Faith’ it cements the pair’s move into a harder, rockier sound full of glam stomp and buckets of attitude. They haven’t […]

Micah P. Hinson “The Sleep of the Damned” – Listen

October 3, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

You’ll recall that Micah P. Hinson’s upcoming album carries the title ‘When I Shoot At You With Arrows, I Will Shoot To Destroy You‘ and is credited to Micah P. Hinson and the Musicians of the Apocalypse. […]

Gram Parsons “Streets of Baltimore” – Listen

September 19, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

Forty five years since the Grievous Angel checked out. An electric band and drums? In country? That’ll never work. Thanks for shaking things up Gram.

Something for the weekend: Keyside “Cocodamol”

July 10, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week. Don’t forget about our 25 year anniversary event in November which takes place across 2 stages in Liverpool at the end of November and features Chuck Prophet and […]

Book review: Willy Vlautin “The Left and the Lucky”

July 10, 2026 0

Willy Vlautin is well known as the chief songwriter of Richmond Fontaine and The Delines, trading in beautifully written vignettes of the people who have generally fallen between the cracks of the American dream. These dark […]

Emmylou Harris, Mumford and Sons and Jerry Douglas

Classic Clips: Mumford & Sons & Emmylou Harris ft. Jerry Douglas “The Road” – CMT Crossroads, The Factory, Franklin, Tennessee, 20th September 2012

July 10, 2026 0

The evening before San Francisco’s 2025 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival the Masonic Auditorium hosted a tribute concert to Emmylou Harris, the only artist to have graced the festival stages for each of its 25 years. During […]

Articles by Jonathan Aird

Joshua Ketchmark “The Misses” (Independent, 2018)

Tyler Childers, Dingwalls, London, 4th September 2018

Track premiere: Larkin Poe “Sometimes”

Micah P. Hinson “The Sleep of the Damned” – Listen

Gram Parsons “Streets of Baltimore” – Listen

Something for the weekend: Keyside “Cocodamol”

Book review: Willy Vlautin “The Left and the Lucky”

Classic Clips: Mumford & Sons & Emmylou Harris ft. Jerry Douglas “The Road” – CMT Crossroads, The Factory, Franklin, Tennessee, 20th September 2012

Les Thomas “I Remember Everything”

Latest AUK Podcast now available featuring author and journalist Liz Thomson