Muff Fitzgerald

Trailhead “Keep Walking” (Requa Records, 2018)

January 19, 2018 Muff Fitzgerald 0

Never go walking with The Proclaimers – it’s really tiring! But if you do fancy trekking 500 miles or so, according to Lonely Planet, the sure-fire way to avoid blisters whilst walking the Camino de Santiago […]

Coal Minor Canary “The 3:42 EP” (Independent, 2017)

November 19, 2017 Muff Fitzgerald 0

I’m down with the legendary Quentin Crisp. The great man once said that “There is no need to do any housework, because after four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.” I agree wholeheartedly. Just what […]

Zervas & Pepper “Wilderland” (Independent, 2017)

October 18, 2017 Muff Fitzgerald 0

Cabin fever! Jack Kerouac spent 63 days working as a fire watch, on top of Desolation Peak in the North Cascade Mountains in 1956. Zervas & Pepper spent 28 days in a remote cabin in the […]

Ron Pope “Work” (Brooklyn Basement Records, 2017)

September 18, 2017 Muff Fitzgerald 0

Ron Pope is living proof that if you can find a job you love, then you never do a day’s work in your life. Though paradoxically, to borrow a phrase from James Brown, Pope is currently […]

Heather Lynne Horton “Don’t Mess with Mrs Murphy” (At The Helm, 2017)

September 18, 2017 Muff Fitzgerald 0

“When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch!” so Bette Davis remarked some years ago. Thankfully things have improved since then. Not so much third wave […]

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Hurray for the Riff Raff - Live Forever
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Old 97s - Too Far to Care
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R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
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Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac
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Wilco - summerteeth
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Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun
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Rolling Stones - Some Girls
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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Tracks

The Grass Fed Giants “Traveling Light” – Listen

June 16, 2017 0

The Grass Fed Giants are an americana/alt-country band from Phoenix, Arizona whose new single “Traveling Light” they describe as “a heart-longing ballad featuring a lovely vocal outing from our own Ms. Bobbi Miller and some great […]

Videos

Video: Chris Maxwell “New Store No. 2”

February 26, 2020 0

Quite simply, this is one of the cleverest videos you’ll see this year. A series of images, newspaper cuttings, old photographs, maps and objects are used to accompany a lovely, lyrical narrative. The ‘American Dream’ and […]

Features

The First Time: Clint West – Hawkwind, Ipswich Gaumont, December 18th 1975

January 3, 2023 5

Welcome to a new series where AUK writers look back on the first gig that they ever attended. Clint West kicks off the series by reflecting on not just a gig, but a whole formative experience. […]

Articles by Muff Fitzgerald

Trailhead “Keep Walking” (Requa Records, 2018)

Coal Minor Canary “The 3:42 EP” (Independent, 2017)

Zervas & Pepper “Wilderland” (Independent, 2017)

Ron Pope “Work” (Brooklyn Basement Records, 2017)

Heather Lynne Horton “Don’t Mess with Mrs Murphy” (At The Helm, 2017)

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”