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Got talent? Welcome to The Twang Factor Season 4

September 1, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

Resuming a very successful series, The Twang Factor is back to find the best new and emerging americana acts. Get amped up! With the competition hotter than ever, AUK is accepting entries for the 4th season […]

Videos

Something for the weekend: Bright Eyes feat. Hurray for the Riff Raff “Dyslexic Palindrome”

August 29, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader – I am having a rare venture down to London to see Sam Russo tonight although I’m so tired I fully expect to fall asleep in […]

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Something for the long weekend: Neal Casal “Running Wild”

August 22, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader – it’s been another week of trekking around the country for me and my little clan, this time to the chilly climes of Cambridgeshire where the […]

Interviews

From the AUK Archive – Interview: Aimee Mann

August 19, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

If Stewart Lee is the comedian’s comedian, then Aimee Mann is the songwriter’s songwriter. The Oscar-nominated, Grammy-winning singer is a hugely observant student of human behaviour, drawing not just on her own experiences to form the […]

Tracks

Something for the weekend: Octoberman “Harry Nilsson”

August 15, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. It’s release day for the new Icarus Phoenix extended Deluxe version of “I Should Have Known the Things You Never Said” which contains almost four times […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

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From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

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Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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For anyone who has been thinking “these tracks, they’ve been getting a bit introspective and delicately beautiful lately” then we hear you and we’re here to address the situation.  We’re starting the week with a real […]

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Edward David Anderson “Chasing Butterflies”(Black Dirt Records, 2018)

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Edward David Anderson (EDA) is a gifted songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who spent a decade fronting the revered Midwest rock band Backyard Tire Fire, before he broke away and released his ambitious debut ‘Lies & Wishes’ in […]

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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass to hold online festival featuring Emmylou and more

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One of the few silver linings of the current situation is that you get to go to festivals you wouldn’t normally be able to attend, albeit virtually, and in that spirit San Fransisco’s Bay Area’s beloved […]

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