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Johnny Dowd Hits UK for Tour This Month

October 4, 2016 Mark Whitfield 0

Apparently to try and categorise Johnny Dowd – Ithaca, New York’s legendary idiosyncratic genius – is like “trying to hold back a hurricane with a windbreak. It’s just not possible or indeed beneficial. To do so […]

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Neil Young Debuts Four New Songs at Show – Watch

October 4, 2016 Mark Whitfield 0

With apologies to those readers who complained that the previous incarnation of AUK was like a Neil Young fan site.  Uncut reports: “Neil Young has debuted four new songs live during the same show. Young and The […]

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Exclusive Video: Christian Kjellvander “Midsummer”

October 4, 2016 Mark Whitfield 0

Exclusive to AUK, this is the first showing of Christian Kjellvander’s new video “Midsummer” which is taken from the forthcoming album “A Village: Natural Light” which is released October 14th on Tapete Records. Rather fine it is too.

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Gillian Welch to Release “Official” Bootleg Next Month

October 4, 2016 Mark Whitfield 0

Gillian Welch’s groundbreaking album Revival was released twenty years ago and to commemorate the anniversary, Welch’s own Acony Records will release Boots No 1: The Official Revival Bootleg on November 25. Personally curated and produced by […]

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Hiss Golden Messenger Stream New Album Online – Listen Now

October 3, 2016 Mark Whitfield 0

We raved rabidly about his last album so expecting big things from this.  Courtesy of Rolling Stone who report: “For any artist, quitting a day job to pursue art full-time represents a huge leap of faith. […]

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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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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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It’s sobering to think that North Carolina band Whiskeytown formed 25 years ago now, and while they’re best known for being Ryan Adams’ first project, they were more than the sum of their parts and very […]

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