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[ July 15, 2026 ] Whiskey Treaty Roadshow “Kept Rising” Album Reviews
[ July 15, 2026 ] Live Review: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, British Airways ARC, London – 8th July 2026 Live Reviews
[ July 15, 2026 ] Max Subar “Anything Could Be” Album Reviews
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Interview: Shemekia Copeland on “Blame It On Eve”

September 18, 2024 Martin Johnson 0

Why the blues is at the heart of all American roots music. Texas bluesman Johnny Copeland was at the forefront of keeping the blues alive and fresh in the ‘80s and ‘90s, and now his daughter […]

Interview: For the record, Mickelson states if you can’t be right be loud

September 13, 2024 Dean Nardi 0

The UNarmed American fires a shot he hopes will be heard ‘round the world. In early 2025, two hundred and fifty years after Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote the immortal line, “the shot heard ‘round the world,” […]

Video interview: Nada Surf’s Matthew Caws on americana, a new label and “Moon Mirror”

September 12, 2024 Mark Whitfield 1

“One of my favourite records of all time is The International Submarine Band’s ‘Safe at Home’” We have long been fans of Nada Surf here at AUK, a band who push the boundaries of what you […]

Interview: Satellite Inn’s Stiv Cantarelli on Italian Americana history

September 11, 2024 Martin Johnson 0

Replacing Whiskeytown on Moodfood Records and being backed by Richmond Fontaine. Stiv Cantarelli has been able to carve out a musical career based on punk rock and his love of American roots music. This is all […]

Tales from The Long Road – Around the table with Gangstagrass

September 5, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Brooklyn Hip-Hop vibes come to Lutterworth. Gangstagrass, the Brooklyn-based bluegrass/hip-hop band, opened the Interstate stage at the Long Road Festival on 23rd August 2024, before heading off to play the Shrewsbury Folk Festival the same evening. […]

Whiskey Treaty Roadshow “Kept Rising”

July 15, 2026 0

Whiskey Treaty Roadshow proves that Democracy is strongest when it is diverse. It’s hard to pin down Whiskey Treaty Roadshow. They are all over the map, stylistically, and as a collective. Over the course of more […]

Live Review: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, British Airways ARC, London – 8th July 2026

July 15, 2026 0

And it’s off to another new venue in London, prestigiously located at Olympia in one of those surprisingly hard to get to parts of London. Few are the venues that feel the need to post outlying […]

Cover art for Max Subar album "Anything Could Be"

Max Subar “Anything Could Be”

July 15, 2026 1

Chicago singer-songwriter’s highly promising debut album explores the ceaseless ebb and flow of life’s hopes and fears. Recorded in a house on the shore overlooking a frozen lake in Wisconsin, while nature lay dormant beneath a […]

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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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Interview: Dietmar Leibecke on the ethos of Germany’s Static Roots Music Festival

July 6, 2026 3

Americana UK’s Rick Bayles’ monthly column, Vox Continental, shines a light on what is happening on the americana front in Europe. In his most recent column, Rick gave the nod to the Static Roots Festival, which […]

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Ryan Adams hits number one in 3 US Charts

March 2, 2017 0

And he’s number one in the UK’s americana chart too. Billboard reports: “Ryan Adams takes no prisoners as he arrives at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums, Alternative Albums and Americana/Folk Albums charts (dated March […]

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Americana A-Z – Jesse Malin

April 16, 2019 1

Alt-country has always had a reputation as being Americana’s brattish, bastard cousin. Despite having somewhat died a death in recent years, one of its trailblazers, Jesse Malin, still continues to make exciting and relevant music to […]

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Interview: Stereo Naked’s Julie Zeck and Pierce Black on their Celtic Connections

January 9, 2024 0

The UK audience is more receptive than German audiences to innovative folk and bluegrass. The band name Stereo Naked isn’t the only thing that can be said to be a little off-kilter about folk bluegrass duo […]