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2016 : we’re lost in music – caught in a trap.

December 12, 2016 Jonathan Aird 0
You could point at almost any year this century and it would be a vintage year for music – there’s so much out there that, once one has struggled through the ever expanding amount that is […]
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AmericanA to Z: A.A. Bondy

December 8, 2016 David Cowling 0
Welcome to the first in an ongoing series of explorations of Americana UK’s digital library. We’re going to explore our digital music collection to try to unearth some hidden gems and to remind everyone of artists that […]

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Lambchop “The New World Wave” – a family saga

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Video: Ian Prowse “The Cleaner” feat. Elvis Costello – on the frontline in the class war

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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Michael Rudd

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Frank Migliorelli & The Dirt Nappers “Abnormal Condition”

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For The Sake Of The Song : The Volares “Down To The Lane”

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Lambchop “The New World Wave” – a family saga

July 21, 2026 0
The New World Wave, the latest single from the upcoming album Punching The Clown (which will be released on 21 August 2026 via City Slang) is nothing short of a complete family tree described by Kurt […]
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Video: Ian Prowse “The Cleaner” feat. Elvis Costello – on the frontline in the class war

July 21, 2026 0
The new single from Merseyside songwriter Ian Prowse features the familiar, unmistakable voice of Elvis Costello. While Costello’s characterful contribution to The Cleaner is excellent, Prowse’s own vocal is brilliantly impassioned and melodic. Musically, the song […]
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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Michael Rudd

July 20, 2026 0
Hailing from New Mexico, roots rock singer/songwriter Michael Rudd has been around for almost four decades since he put a bag of clothes, a manual typewriter, a few notebooks and a guitar in his two-door Datsun […]

  • Lambchop “The New World Wave” – a family saga
  • Video: Ian Prowse “The Cleaner” feat. Elvis Costello – on the frontline in the class war
  • Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Michael Rudd
  • Frank Migliorelli & The Dirt Nappers “Abnormal Condition”
  • For The Sake Of The Song : The Volares “Down To The Lane”
  • Live Review: Brennen Leigh + Jackson Ward, St. Mary’s Creative Space, Chester – 3rd July 2026
  • John R. Miller “The Great Unknowing”
  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 237 “I’m going down to Liverpool…”
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Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for

July 16, 2026 0
Nothing I Can’t Undo is such a deeply earnest, empathetic and personal album that captures exactly what a solo debut is supposed to be by introducing us, in full, to Taylor Bickett, a 20-something singer/songwriter from […]
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Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0
Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]
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Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations

July 7, 2026 1
Like the old sailors of yore, Hank Alrich sure knows how to spin a yarn, though I doubt his are made up or heavily stretched. They keep your attention. I would contentedly sit in an armchair […]

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Sounds from beyond the Shed – week 13

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So winter returned with a vengeance this week. Flippin’ snow in April ffs! Not much, in fact more a sleety impersonation of snow as done by a pretty poor impressionist, perhaps the Harry Hill of the […]
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The Song Remains: Joe Ely (1947 – 2025)

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A Great Texas Artist Who Nearly Conquered The World Joe Ely, an icon of Texas music and country rock, has died at home in Taos, New Mexico, on December 15th from complications of Lewy Body Dementia, Parkinson’s, […]
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Clint’s Classic Clips: Steve Goodman “The City of New Orleans” The Old Grey Whistle Test, 1972

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An early performance from the talented Chicago songwriter who died of leukemia in 1984, aged just 36. The Old Grey Whistle Test first broadcast in 1971 and ran through to 1987 when Janet Street-Porter, the BBC’s […]

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