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Essentials: The Top 10 Digital Live Albums in 2025

December 18, 2025 Dean Nardi 1

A quirky and amusing take in our occasional Essentials series looks at the best live digital-only releases in 2025 This exciting and fun way of listening to live music recordings is a new wrinkle on the […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Americana songs about America

October 14, 2025 Tim Martin 13

Our writers continue to deliver articles for this popular Feature on an occasional basis. This week Tim Martin has an interesting take on the series. Americana as a genre spends a fair bit of time exploring […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Songs from Season Two of “The Bear”

September 11, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

There was an Essentials feature on season 1 of Hulu’s hit TV series “The Bear” posted back in June (2025). Much has changed leading into season 2. Picking up seemingly days after the first season’s end, […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Iris DeMent Songs

August 14, 2025 Darren Lumbroso 8

Iris Luella DeMent was born in Arkansas in 1961, the youngest of 14 children in a Pentecostal family. Her cotton farming parents were both musical. Her father, Pat, was a fiddle player who performed at dances, […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Peter Rowan songs

August 7, 2025 Tim Martin 3

Having recently reviewed Peter Rowan’s latest album “Tales of the Free Mexican Air Force“, which is, at least partly, a musing on some of his career high points, I found that I didn’t know that calling […]

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Rolling Stones - Some Girls
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Sierra Ferrell - Pretty Magic Spell
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Live Review: Julie Odell + The Antlers, EartH, Dalston, London – 11th March 2026

March 19, 2026 0

Evolutionary Arts Hackney (EartH), a converted Art Deco cinema, is now a thriving arts centre, promoting innovative and cross-cultural art. It is an appropriate place to host artists who hail from New Orleans and New York […]

Artwork for The Brook & The Bluff album Werewolf

The Brook & The Bluff “Werewolf”

March 19, 2026 0

Going back to their roots. After almost a decade of constant touring, The Brook & The Bluff took a break and stayed put in Nashville, meeting up every weekday morning for band practice. It was just […]

Folk Tracks Roundup – March 2026

March 19, 2026 0

Here’s another half a dozen or so new folk tracks for your delectation and delight. Quite a varied crop, with a couple looking to future directions for folk, a couple of Irish-inspired productions and a couple […]

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 0

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 […]

Reviews

AUK’s EP Round-Up – January 2026

January 14, 2026 2

Welcome back, dear readers, to the first ‘Monthly EPs Round-Up’ for 2026. Now, although we are already well into January, our selections this month comprise EPs released towards the end of last year that arrived on […]

Features

Here’s 10 americana songs with great lyrics

July 2, 2019 7

Given the way in in which people typically consume music nowadays, all too often the lyrics are sidelined, if not completely overlooked. But great lyrics are often what make the best songs truly memorable. The following […]

Album Reviews

Nichols & Phillips “Three Fools”

April 20, 2023 0

An album which fans of the lighter end of the americana spectrum will enjoy immensely. This album was recorded in Wales but you would be forgiven if you thought it was recorded in sunny California. It’s […]