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Cum on feel the Noiz – Jon Aird’s Review of 2020

December 22, 2020 Jonathan Aird 1
  It goes without saying that this has been a terrible year in many ways – trade you a pandemic against the bizarre play out of politics in the USA. And then conflate them – now […]
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Dan Friese takes ‘The Twang Factor’ S1 runner-up slot

December 22, 2020 Clint West 0
Having yesterday revealed West on Colfax in third place, today we can announce the runner-up of The Twang Factor. Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Dan Friese blew us away with the energy and enthusiasm of his performance. The […]
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AUK’s Chain Gang: Until the End of the World “Just Let Go”

December 21, 2020 Sean Hannam 1
I panicked when I first saw the link in last week’s Chain Gang, which was Lori McKenna’s ‘Humble and Kind’, as I didn’t know either the artist or the song. Then I did some digging around […]
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Riches in Lockdown: Helen Jones’s Review of 2020

December 21, 2020 Helen Jones 2
It’s true that 2020 has been a disappointing year for many reasons, but one of the bright spots has been the massive amount of music we’ve been handed. In what was a veritable embarrassment of riches, […]
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Third place in ‘The Twang Factor’ S1 goes to West on Colfax

December 21, 2020 Clint West 0
The votes are in and counted. After an incredibly close contest our winners have now been chosen by the AUK readers. We’d like to thank all of our featured acts for sharing their music with us, […]

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There’s a joyful festival to be Found in Buckingham on the August bank holiday

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Classic Clips: Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” – Studio Recording, 1981

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There’s a joyful festival to be Found in Buckingham on the August bank holiday

July 31, 2026 0
Correspondent and promoter Oliver Gray recommends an attractive festival that will entertain rather than overwhelm. It’s called Found, and it takes place this August Bank Holiday and is attracting some very classy acts indeed. “The band […]
Classic Clips

Classic Clips: Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” – Studio Recording, 1981

July 31, 2026 0
Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around is a Tom Petty and Mike Campbell composition originally earmarked for the Heartbreakers’ Hard Promises album. The fact that a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers track ended up featuring on the Stevie Nicks debut solo […]
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Jason McNiff “Ten Blue Songs”

July 31, 2026 0
Hastings’ finest celebrates his blessed musical life in typically classy fashion. Jason McNiff is such a regular on these pages that the usual artist background story that accompanies a new album seems surplus to requirements here. […]

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Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”

July 29, 2026 0
American Aquarium appear to be on a creative roll with their latest album, New Ways To Lose, getting great reviews even though it is their twentieth album in as many years. Added to this is the […]
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Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories

July 28, 2026 0
“Radiate a smile if we’re only here for a short while / no we don’t want to miss a day / cus there’s so much we must do,” sings David Keenan on Radiate a Smile, four […]
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Interview: The Lives of Famous Men take the elevator upward

July 24, 2026 0
End Times Elevator Music is a special record to behold. From the Link Wray fuzz guitar rumbles on opener No Alarm to the title track closer, which arrives like Ben Schneider and Brendan Urie collaborated, there […]

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Memories of my one and only encounter with The Man in Black. Johnny Cash walks onstage introducing himself simply by saying “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash” not really needing any introduction.  It is August 30, 1994 in […]
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The Brothers Comatose “Home Again” – I wish I was

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The Brothers Comatose have resurrected a song they wrote after friends lost their home in a big fire in the Santa Cruz mountains.  This has become pointedly topical again with the recent fires in Los Angeles, […]
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Classic Clips: Conor Oberst, First Aid Kit and James Felice “Lua” Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, 6 October 2017

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One of the upsides of festivals is the opportunities presented for collaboration.  Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is a three-day festival held in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on the first weekend in October.  For a number of […]

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