Features
AUK Chain Gang: Flatt & Scruggs “Iron Curtain”
When Keith Hargreaves steps out of his shed of an evening and looks up, what does he see? Stars. There are a lot of stars, the greatest number inhabit the Main Sequence – they are your […]
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AUK Mini-Gigs
Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Ashley Monroe
Throughout 2020, as the world was gripped by the pandemic, we helped to fill the void left by a lack of live music by posting a series of mini-gigs from outstanding artists. It has been a […]
Essentials
Essentials: The top 10 The Waterboys songs
The Waterboys have been a stalwart on the music scene for the best part of forty years. From first seeing them live in 1985, at Leeds Polytechnic (as it was then), to most recently in 2018, […]
Classic Americana Albums
Classic Americana Albums: Neko Case “Furnace Room Lullaby”
‘Furnace Room Lullaby’ announces itself pretty quickly as “not your standard country album” with the front cover of Case stretched out on what appears to be a public toilet concrete floor like a corpse. Turn the […]
A Night to Remember
A Night To Remember: Jason Molina & Ron Sexsmith, Granada, Spain, 23rd June 2007
Full confession: when I went to this concert, I had no idea who Jason Molina was and I was only interested in Ron Sexsmith because I’d been given one of his albums, played it once, liked […]