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Snow Patrol guitarist Nathan Connolly to release solo americana album

April 20, 2023 Emily Dongray 0

Tour dates go on sale tomorrow. Former Snow Patrol guitarist, Nathan Connolly, has announced news of a UK and Ireland tour. The five dates in mid-June include London, Glasgow and a hometown show in Belfast’s Limelight […]

Jerry Leger to tour UK this May

April 19, 2023 Emily Dongray 0

Jerry Leger has announced a May tour with twelve dates starting in High Wycombe on May 8th. The tour promotes the Canadian’s ‘Latent Uncovers’ EP, which came out earlier this year. The four songs were recorded […]

Record Store Day 2023 – an AUK guide

April 18, 2023 Emily Dongray 0

It’s that time again when the format fiends get excited about queueing at 5 am (or earlier) to be among the few to own this year’s exclusively released records. Record Store Day started in 2007 and […]

Bob Dylan reveals the Shadow Kingdom

April 17, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

What is ‘Shadow Kingdom‘? It’s an act of taking control of his past, perhaps, it’s also a new album from Bob Dylan. Released on June 2nd, with the video album of the release coming out on […]

Graham Nash announces late summer UK tour dates

April 14, 2023 Paul Kerr 0

Following on from AUK’s February news regarding Graham Nash’s first studio album of new material in seven years, titled ‘Now’, which is due for release on May 19th via BMG, Nash has announced his most ambitious […]

RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
John Mellencamp - The Lonesome Jubilee
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Ashley McBryde - Wild (vinyl)
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Liz stringer ‘ first time really feeling’Melbourne song...
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@paul-villers Those versions keep coming
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Just binged "Legends" - a British drama on Netflix abou...
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Radio Paradise's Mellow Mix whilst on a bit of a drive
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Amy Grant The 6th of January (Yasgur’s Farm): time for ...
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The Lone Bellow - The Lone Bellow (vinyl)
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XTC - A Coat of Many Cupboards (excerpts...it's a 4 CD ...
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Something for the weekend: Keyside “Lemon and Lime”

May 15, 2026 1

Well that’s it from us for this week, and bear with me dear reader with the track we’re leaving you with for the weekend which despite starting off sounding like we’ve veered into covering 90s-era Britpop, […]

Cowboy Junkies “Open to Beauty”

May 15, 2026 0

Americana legends celebrate 21st-century releases on latest career retrospective. Forty years in, the Cowboy Junkies remain one of the great under-the-surface bands in Americana: despite having a million-selling classic to their name, they rarely make best-of […]

Book Review: Patrick Joseph O’Connor “Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community”

May 15, 2026 0

Patrick Joseph O’Connor’s Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community reclaims an overlooked part in American musicology. While places like Chicago, Memphis, and the Mississippi Delta often dominate the story of Blues, O’Connor suggests that […]