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Our new supporters playlist comes out today – Win a pair of tickets to see a Transatlantic Sessions show!

November 1, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0
Our new playlist of the best new Americana we’ve heard over the last month is out later today exclusively for AUK supporters which includes new tracks by Danny and the Champs, Dawes, Chuck Ragan, Amy Speace, […]
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Mark Eitzel announces UK & European tour dates for 2025

October 31, 2024 Richard Parkinson 2
Mark Eitzel, former frontman of San Francisco’s American Music Club has announced his first European tour for eight years, taking place in spring 2025.  The majority of dates will be solo acoustic sets other than the […]
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Aussie troubadour Hazlett completes sophomore album and headlines UK for the first time

October 31, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0
Following the first part of “Goodbye to the Valley Low” released in late 2023, Australian musician Hazlett has released the complimentary ‘Side B’ EP and combined them together to make a full-length album out now via […]
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Hardwicke Circus announce new live album and tour dates

October 30, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
Carlisle’s Hardwicke Circus have announced the release of their latest album “Cumbria Pizza” on 29th November 2024 on their own Alternative Facts Records in vinyl, CD and digital formats. The record is an unplugged album, recorded […]
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Bonnie “Prince” Billy announces the release of his ‘Nashville’ album The Purple Bird – Yeehaw!

October 30, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0
Bonnie “Prince” Billy aka Will Oldham has announced the release his new studio album “The Purple Bird” on January 31st 2025. Made in Nashville with producer David “Ferg” Ferguson and an ensemble of A-list session musicians, […]

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Video Interview: Alex Amen on “Sun Of Amen” as he comes of age as a songwriter

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Artwork for Sailing Sones album "Slow Magic"

Sailing Stones “Slow Magic”

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More People Really Should Know About: Travis Shallow

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Jerry Joseph, Water Rats 8/7/26

Live Review: Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons + Red Hash + Ella Spencer, Water Rats, London – 8th July 2026

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Martin Carthy “Along the Road Forever – Live at the BBC”

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Video Interview: Alex Amen on “Sun Of Amen” as he comes of age as a songwriter

July 21, 2026 0
Alex Amen is making waves as one of the new breed of songwriters to keep a very close eye on. Born in Texas, he has lived in communes on the West Coast, formed and played in […]
Artwork for Sailing Sones album "Slow Magic"
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Sailing Stones “Slow Magic”

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Absorbing collection of songs that subtly reveal the quiet joys of motherhood. The first sound that emerges from the new Sailing Stones album, Slow Magic, is the metronomic rhythm of a baby’s heartbeat with its gentle […]
Image taken at Maverick Festival
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More People Really Should Know About: Travis Shallow

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If you’ve ever found yourself searching for music that offers comfort without pretending life is easy, then you should know Travis Shallow. He writes songs that acknowledge the darkness but never surrender to it, and he […]

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Video Interview: Alex Amen on “Sun Of Amen” as he comes of age as a songwriter

July 21, 2026 0
Alex Amen is making waves as one of the new breed of songwriters to keep a very close eye on. Born in Texas, he has lived in communes on the West Coast, formed and played in […]
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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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Jingle Bells Thursday – here it is, Merry Christmas

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And so this is Christmas – and what have we done?  Well, “we’ve” put together another selection of seasonal ditties with a sort of kind of Americana-ish slant.  Always a bitter sweet moment – somewhat akin […]
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Colin Hay “Fierce Mercy” (Compass Records, 2017)

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The latest solo album from prolific Men at Work frontman Colin Hay is a lesson in how deceptive appearances can be. The kitschy cover design looks like a collage of stock photos and clip art, and […]
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Live Review: Andy Irvine – Junction 2, Cambridge, 9th May 2024

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A glorious day had led onto a glorious evening in the company of a true legend of folk music – a teller of great tales, a sterling supporter of the rights of workers, and a man […]

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