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Multi-award winner Sierra Ferrell to tour UK/ Europe summer 2026

February 9, 2026 Richard Parkinson 1
Americana force of nature Sierra Ferrell has just announced her 2026 Heavy Petal tour, including several dates across the UK and Europe in the summer of 2026. 2025 started with a remarkable sweep of four wins […]
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Something for the weekend: Billy Bragg “City of Heroes”

February 6, 2026 Mark Whitfield 0
Well that’s it from us for this week. If you’re an AUK supporter your new playlist will be with you at 5pm and it could be you who wins the pair of tickets for the Cambridge […]
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Our new supporters playlist comes out today with our best giveaway yet – win a pair of weekend tickets to the Cambridge Folk Festival 2026!

February 6, 2026 Mark Whitfield 0
If you’re not subscribing to our monthly supporters newsletter you’ll be missing out on our exclusive supporters playlist of the best new Americana we’ve heard over the last month which this month includes new tracks by […]
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The latest AUK podcast is now live featuring chat with Greazy Alice mainman Alex Pianovich

February 6, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0
This week’s podcast is a very Loose affair, featuring as it does four acts that are signed by those London connoisseurs of fine art, Loose Music. We have the new songs from Danny George Wilson, Brown […]
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Jesca Hoop returns with self produced album and UK tour

February 5, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0
Jesca Hoop has announced her new album Long Wave Home, and it’s due out on 1st May via Last Laugh / Republic Of Music. To accompany the announcement, Hoop has shared the album’s first single, Designer […]

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Preview: James Taylor returns to the UK

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July 15, 2026 3

Whiskey Treaty Roadshow “Kept Rising”

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

Live Reviews
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Cover art for Max Subar album "Anything Could Be"

Max Subar “Anything Could Be”

Album Reviews
July 15, 2026 1

Park Hills Circle “All Of A Sudden” – seasons change

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Previews

Preview: James Taylor returns to the UK

July 15, 2026 3
Correction: The original version of this story described James Taylor as arriving in the UK next week, when as one of our readers has pointed out in the comments, he’s already played Scotland and is in […]
Album Reviews

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 Reviews

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 […]

  • Preview: James Taylor returns to the UK
  • Whiskey Treaty Roadshow “Kept Rising”
  • Live Review: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, British Airways ARC, London – 8th July 2026
  • Max Subar “Anything Could Be”
  • Park Hills Circle “All Of A Sudden” – seasons change
  • Video Premiere: The Kennedys “Without Us” – nature might do better
  • Hollow Hand announces new album for September and UK Tour
  • Hudson NY duo Babehoven to release third album in the autumn
  • Brennan Gilmore “My Name Is Daniel Leek”
  • More People Really Should Know About: James Hodder
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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 […]
Interviews

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 […]
Interviews

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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The Top Ten Americana Songs of All Time: 6th – Whiskeytown “Houses on the Hill” (1997)

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By virtue of the greater number of votes at a higher level, this track ranks No. 6 in our countdown, although equal 5th in points obtained. From the album frequently voted Whiskeytown’s best (Stranger’s Almanac), this […]
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An album of real musical power, emotional honesty and performed with sheer commitment. On this follow up to introspective album “Strawberry Mansion” Langhorne Slim chooses to bear his soul through high energy rock and roll. Helping […]
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Video: Richard Koechli “Feel Like Going Home”

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Check out Richard Koechli’s distinctive voice and guitar in his beautifully produced new single. In troubled times, we’ve all felt that compulsion to retreat but resignation rarely sounds so good. From his opening lines, we’re absorbed: […]

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