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Jesse Malin suffers severe spinal injury – an update

June 30, 2023 Mark Whitfield 1
We don’t normally reproduce word for word what we’ve been sent in a press release but on this occasion we think it warrants an exception – Gary Levermore from Red Sand PR has dropped us a […]
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Buddy and Julie Miller return with new album “In The Throes”

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New album includes Dylan c0-write. Listen to the title track below. Buddy & Julie Miller have announced the release of ‘In The Throes’ which lands on September 22nd in the UK via New West Records. The […]
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Teddy Thompson announces country covers album

June 28, 2023 Mark Whitfield 1
Teddy Thompson has announced details of his eighth studio album, ‘My Love Of Country’, which will be released August 18th 2023. True to its title, Thompson offers personal readings of ten classic country songs by songwriters […]
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From the AUK archives, 2017: Jeremy Hunt: Jason Isbell is “a bit anodyne”

June 23, 2023 Mark Whitfield 1
Robert Peston has written a piece for today’s New Statesman in which both he and Jeremy Hunt manage to insult Jason Isbell in the space of one paragraph: The more worrying thing of course would have […]
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Old Crow Medicine Show announce new album “Jubilee”

June 22, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0
Watch the video for the first single below. Old Crow Medicine Show, or OCMS if you’re in a hurry, have announced the release of their new album ‘Jubilee’ which lands in the UK on 25th August […]

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At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]
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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 1
At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]
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Interview: Lady Nade on being involved in a Netflix drama, inspiration, identity and mental health in music

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Runner-up in our readers’ poll for Best UK Artist in 2025, Lady Nade has steadily built a reputation as one of the most distinctive and emotionally resonant voices in UK roots music. Blending jazz, Americana, folk, […]
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I do a lot of my listening to music while out walking in the mornings, with or without a dog. The day after Willie Nile’s The Great American Light arrived in the mailbox, I popped the […]

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