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Lord Huron release their Spotify singles session, UK dates announced

July 13, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
We leave you this week dear viewers with something to whet your whistle for the weekend. There are a lot of not very nice lords – Lord Voldemort, the House of Lords, the Lord himself when […]
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Video premiere: The Orphan Brigade “Pile of Bones”

July 13, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
‘Pile of Bones’ is the new single from The Orphan Brigade and they’re sharing the new video to it exclusively with AUK this morning. It’s directed by band members Joshua Britt and Neilson Hubbard, who have […]
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William Elliott Whitmore releases Bloodshot debut – September

July 13, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
William Elliott Whitmore will release his Bloodshot Records debut release ‘Kilonova’ on September 7th. The 10-song covers record is his first long-form release since 2015’s ‘Radium Death’ and to commemorate the announcement, Whitmore has released the album’s first […]
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Loudon Wainwright III announces new 2 disc rarities retrospective

July 12, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
The literal legend Loudon Wainwright III will release ‘Years in the Making’, a two-disc compendium of 45 years of Loudon’s offbeaten, rare and unissued tracks on September 14th via StorySound Records. Described a true “audio-biography” it includes orphaned album cuts, […]
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Alejandro Escovedo announces new album, releases new track – Listen

July 11, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
News in this morning from RS Country on new music from a legend: “As far as rock & roll goes, Alejandro Escovedo’s new song “Sonica USA” is a true melting pot – which is apt, given that […]

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Cover art for Max Subar album "Anything Could Be"

Max Subar “Anything Could Be”

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

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

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Hollow Hand announces new album for September and UK Tour

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Live Reviews

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

July 15, 2026 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 1
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 […]
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Park Hills Circle “All Of A Sudden” – seasons change

July 15, 2026 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 […]

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  • Max Subar “Anything Could Be”
  • Park Hills Circle “All Of A Sudden” – seasons change
  • Video Premiere: The Kennedys “Without Us” – nature might do better
  • Hollow Hand announces new album for September and UK Tour
  • Hudson NY duo Babehoven to release third album in the autumn
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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 […]
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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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Interview: Dietmar Leibecke on the ethos of Germany’s Static Roots Music Festival

July 6, 2026 3
Americana UK’s Rick Bayles’ monthly column, Vox Continental, shines a light on what is happening on the americana front in Europe. In his most recent column, Rick gave the nod to the Static Roots Festival, which […]

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Citizen Bravo, Raymond MacDonald & Friends “Return to Y’Hup: The World of Ivor Cutler” (Chemikal Underground, 2020)

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Ivor Cutler was a unique Scottish artist, poet, songwriter, teacher, humourist and mainstay of British Radio who died in 2006 aged 83 and was very probably a genius. The depression of the ‘30s, his Jewish background […]
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Oceans are Zeroes “Oceans are Zeroes” ( Independent, 2017)

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Oceans are Zeroes impinge a power-pop sensibility on the hugest Mogwai-meets-Mercury Rev songs imaginable creating a wall of rock sound backdrop behind high and steely vocals. The initial effect is to be bowled over by a […]
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Video: Steve Welner “Unprotected”

September 6, 2021 0
Steve Welner’s voice sounds as vulnerable as the dispossessed characters that populate his narrative songs, reinforcing the emotional pull and purpose of his writing.  It’s particularly evident in his latest video, ‘Unprotected’, which begins with an […]

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