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Peter Bruntnell heads out on the road again – solo, trio and full band!

March 4, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0
AUK favourite and regular poll winner Peter Bruntnell has announced a series of UK dates to see in the Spring Equinox. Some dates will be full band, some a trio, and some solo. The full band […]
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Johnny Blue Skies to release new album “Mutiny After Midnight” next week

March 3, 2026 Richard Parkinson 0
Johnny Blue Skies & the Dark Clouds, along with the label High Top Mountain Records, have joined forces with Atlantic Music Group’s Atlantic Outpost for the forthcoming release of Mutiny After Midnight which will be released  […]
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Preview: Danny George Wilson launches new album with May tour supporting The Handsome Family

March 2, 2026 Richard Parkinson 0
Danny George Wilson’s latest record, Arcade, has already been previewed in these pages and now Wilson has announced a series of UK tour dates supporting The Handsome family to promote it. For Arcade, Wilson returned to Hamish […]
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Ryan Bingham releases first album in seven years in May

March 2, 2026 Richard Parkinson 3
Oscar and Grammy-winning musician Ryan Bingham will release They Call Us The Lucky Ones, his new album with The Texas Gentlemen, on 15th May 2026 via The Bingham Recording Co./Thirty Tigers. It is his first full-length […]
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Praise be! Kevin Morby announces new album and UK dates

February 27, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0
Kevin Morby has announced his eighth studio album, Little Wide Open, will come out on 15th May via Dead Oceans. The album was produced by Aaron Dessner, and the single Javelin is out now. Additionally, Morby […]

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Something for the weekend: Icarus Phoenix “Oh, The Joy of Life!”

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Well that’s it from us for this sweltering week, and we leave you dear reader with a brand new track from Drew Danburry’s Icarus Phoenix outfit which he describes as “an upbeat fiendishly danceable song about […]
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Live Review: Kiefer Sutherland + Colin Andrew, The Adrian Flux Waterfront, Norwich – 13th May 2026

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When Kiefer Sutherland strode onto the stage at Norwich’s Adrian Flux Waterfront, the response from the packed crowd was immediate and thunderous. There was no slow build into the evening: Sutherland and his outstanding band launched […]
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Jim Keller releases first ever European vinyl retrospective called “Vinylly!”

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You see what he did there? Multi-talented singer, songwriter, and musician Jim Keller is to release Vinylly!, a collection of 14 of his finest songs from the last 15 years, and his first-ever European vinyl release. […]

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Interview: Ben Vaughn on being true to yourself and the joys of recording an album in your car

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To say Ben Vaughn has had an eclectic musical career would be a gross understatement. He grew up in the Philadelphia area, and his journey into music began when a kind uncle gave him a Duane […]
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Interview: Beau Jennings – In Tribute to Will Rogers and the Verdigris

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If History was your favourite class in school, raise your digital hand. Only two? Come on, the subject is not that dull. Now pay attention. Today, we are going to learn about a river called the […]
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Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

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Chicago-born and LA-based singer-songwriter Truman Sinclair will be a new name to many AUK readers, although the more observant of you will have noticed his song Joel Roberts topped my top tracks of 2025 list published […]

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Old Man Luedecke to release new album “She Told Me Where To Go”

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Old Man Luedecke will release his latest album ‘She Told Me Where To Go’ on 24th  May 2024. The album had its genesis in the pandemic when Luedecke began going out to sea on a scallop […]
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Mark Whitfield, AUK Editor’s Top 20 songs of 2024: Part One, 20-11

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As I often remark these days, or these years, where once my musical life was all about albums, I along with apparently everyone under the age of 65 now have the attention span of a goldfish […]
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Hayley Thompson-King “Psychotic Melancholia, Hard To Kill Records, 2017

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It is only with the closing track here that you’d know that HTK is a trained opera singer, the rest of the time she is belting out garage rock like No Room for Jesus or immersing […]

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