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Our new AUK supporters playlist is out today – win a vinyl copy of The Milk Carton Kids’ new album

June 2, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

Our new playlist of the best new Americana we’ve heard over the last month is out later today exclusively for AUK supporters which includes new tracks by Dean Owens, Fruit Bats, Hannah Rose Platt and BC […]

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Something for the long weekend: Teenage Fanclub “Foreign Land”

May 26, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

That’s it from us for another week dear reader and we leave you with a brand new song from the lovely Teenage Fanclub who this week announced their new album ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’ which is due […]

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AUK writer Paul Russell begins new music spot on Times Radio – tonight!

May 26, 2023 Mark Whitfield 1

Well it’s Friday and we’re delighted to announce that one of our very own writers, Paul Russell, will be starting a monthly music slot on Times Radio, with presenter and former culture minister Ed Vaizey, on […]

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The Burning Hell hit the UK for (more) dates

May 23, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

The Burning Hell is the ongoing musical project of songwriter Mathias Kom and multi-instrumentalists Ariel Sharratt and Jake Nicoll, along with other sometime comrades and collaborators, a band for which we have a soft spot here […]

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Something for the weekend: The Smiths “The Boy with the Thorn in his Side”

May 19, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader and while we tend to swerve paying a blind bit of notice to Morrisey these days, the news that Smiths bassist Andy Rourke has died is […]

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Interview: Mean Mary answers six of one and half a dozen of the other

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The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It’s not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with the […]

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Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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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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Mushrooms + Margo = cosmic americana magic. The new Margo Price video finds her and two alter egos on a psychedelic journey.  ‘Been to the Mountain’ is Price’s new single and continues the heavier sound of […]

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My Darling Clementine “Country Darkness Vol. 1” (Fretsore Records, 2019)

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‘Country Darkness Vol. 1′ is a four-track EP of Elvis Costello songs performed by Michael Weston King and Lou Dalgleish AKA My Darling Clementine. The duo has been described by the Guardian as “a bravely unfashionable […]

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Eilen Jewell “Lethal Love” – you or nobody

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Eilen Jewell could be forgiven for reflecting that life can throw you a curve ball or two, and she does say that “They say things have to get worse before they can get better and for […]

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