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[ July 17, 2026 ] Something for the weekend: Son Volt “If I Could” Videos
[ July 17, 2026 ] Bella White “A Sign In The Weather” Album Reviews
[ July 17, 2026 ] Jawdropped have a “Secret To Spare” and October dates News
[ July 17, 2026 ] Classic Clips: Anna Tivel “Rodeo Queens” – She’s Speaking Classic Clips
[ July 17, 2026 ] Paperback Riders: Dennis McNally “A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead” Book Reviews

AUK Short Cuts: Captain’s Audio Project, Ryan Holweger, Ali And The Wild Geese, Barry Oreck, Dave Murphy and Jakub Šimanský

March 7, 2025 Paul Kerr 0

Our latest Short Cuts, a monthly feature where AUK casts a brief eye and ear on several albums we’ve received recently which just didn’t make the cut for a full review. Like most major music websites […]

Essentials: The Top Ten Songs of Ben Bullington

March 6, 2025 FredArnold 5

Ben Bullington was a general medical practitioner in White Sulphur Springs, Montana (pop. 965), and then in Big Timber, MT (pop. c 1600), a doctor who wrote songs and played guitar for his family and friends […]

More People Should Really Know About: Michael Fracasso

March 4, 2025 Stephen Rostkoski 0

It’s the little details that often go unnoticed, but not with singer-songwriter Michael Fracasso. Over the span of his nine albums, Fracasso’s songs form a tapestry of melodic, easy-going folk and blues, framed by his smooth, […]

AUK Back Pages No. 12

March 3, 2025 Paul Kerr 0

We’re now in the middle of 2008 and AUK has its festival garb on as we either bask in the sun or get soaked wet. In May Maurice Hope visits the Kilkenny Rhythm & Roots Festival […]

For the Sake of the Song: John Moreland “Break My Heart Sweetly”

March 3, 2025 FredArnold 0

There was an expectant hush on 22 January 2016, when a packed audience awaited the first (as far as I am aware) appearance in London of John Moreland, in support of Jason Isbell. Unusual, too, because […]

Something for the weekend: Son Volt “If I Could”

July 17, 2026 1

Well that’s it from us for this week and we leave you dear reader with a new song from alt-country heroes/pioneers/stalwarts/choose your own noun Son Volt whose latest album Sound Signal Serenades was physically released on […]

Artwork for Bell White album "A sign in the weather"

Bella White “A Sign In The Weather”

July 17, 2026 0

A strong third album from the rootsy Canadian “Appalachian” artist from New Orleans showing raw emotion and a degree of post-breakup positivity. As you listen to each song on Bella White’s new studio album you feel […]

Jawdropped have a “Secret To Spare” and October dates

July 17, 2026 0

Jawdropped, a four-piece from Los Angeles, have announced their debut album, Secret To Spare, due 18th September via Transgressive Records / Canvasback. The band has also released the first single, Split Lip, along with a video […]

Interviews

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 […]

Interviews

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 […]

Interviews

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 […]

Album Reviews

Twain “Noon”

November 9, 2022 0

Frequently beautiful songs delivered with wisdom, generosity, kindness and sincerity. It’s beautiful how effortless this sounds, how timeless it feels. Such light touches. A voice, sometimes keening, reassuringly controlled, a warm, engrossing record that oughtn’t surprise […]

Interviews

Interview: Caleb Caudle values endurance and radical empathy

June 3, 2025 0

Caleb Caudle has been making music for longer than you might guess since the night he walked up to an open mic night, sat down and strummed his first chord in a live setting. He sings […]

Album Reviews

The Blue Dogs “Big Dreamers”

May 30, 2022 0

A comeback chance seized with both hands, this is fine country-rock that should win The Blue Dogs a new audience. South Carolina band The Blue Dogs have not produced any studio material since 2004, although several […]