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Preview: Playing on the Farm 2024 – Deadheads and good vibes

January 18, 2024 Mark Whitfield 1

We feature the Grateful Dead from time to time here on AUK, and if you’ve ever grooved to “Live Dead”, “American Beauty” or “Europe 72” then the Playing on the Farm Festival, at the wonderful Abbey […]

News

Preview: Ernest Aines arrives next week for first UK tour

January 17, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0

Melbourne’s award-winning singer-songwriter, Ernest Aines, known for his intricate finger-style guitar and dreamy vocals, is set to embark on his first-ever UK tour in January and February 2024. Fresh from the successful launch of his debut […]

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The Pernice Brothes announce new album “Who Will You Believe”

January 16, 2024 Mark Whitfield 1

First new music in 5 years – Listen to the title track below. The Pernice Brothers have announced a new album “Who Will You Believe” which lands on April 5th via New West Records, and along […]

News

Alejandro Escovedo announces new re-recorded retrospective

January 15, 2024 Mark Whitfield 4

The always evolving Alejandro Escovedo has announced a new album “Echo Dancing”, described as a “career-spanning collection that’s less a look back than a bold new turn for this sonic adventurer and singular creative mind.” It […]

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Something for the weekend: Waxahatchee “Right Back to It” (feat. MJ Lenderman)

January 12, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it for us for another week dear reader. If you are heading up or down to London again tomorrow for the latest Palestine demo, rallied by the amazing strength of South Africa this week, […]

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

February 12, 2026 1

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 […]

Behind the Songs

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

February 10, 2026 0

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 […]

Interviews

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

February 9, 2026 0

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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Video Premiere: Rakish “Counting Down the Hours”

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When Rakish finish performing ‘Counting Down the Hours’ in this performance video, we are left with the overwhelming feeling of finding shared joy in the music and it is genuinely delightful.  The pair put on an […]

For The Sake Of The Song

For The Sake Of The Song: The Pogues “Sally MacLennane”

March 18, 2024 0

The death of Shane MacGowan on 30th November last year meant that the radio airwaves were awash with ‘Fairytale Of New York’; it’s a great song but has suffered, in my mind, from being overplayed, especially […]

Obituaries

The Song Remains: David Crosby (1941 – 2023)

January 23, 2023 4

The death of David Crosby, who passed on the 19th of January, was hardly unanticipated – it’s not just that he was 81, but he had been saying in interviews “how am I still alive?” as […]

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