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David Lowery “I Wrote A Song Called Take The Skinheads Bowling” – does this really mean nothing?

March 20, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
David Lowery has a new album coming out on Cooking Vinyl on May 30th called ‘Fathers, Sons and Brothers‘ and it’s 28 tracks are very much in the biographical vein.  Take today’s song – it’s about […]
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Five Alive! The Minus 5 return with first all new album… in five years

March 19, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0
Acclaimed collective The Minus 5, spearheaded by legendary musician and songwriter Scott McCaughey, returns with “Oar On, Penelope!” out May 30th on via Yep Roc Records. Produced by Scott McCaughey and mixed by engineer Ed Stasium […]
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Gruff Rhys saddles up with tour to support rereleased and expanded “American Interior”

March 18, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0
Originally released in 2014, the album has now been remastered and will be released for the first time on Rough Trade with bonus tracks that have long been out of print on LP and never released […]
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Martha Wainwright rereleases eponymous debut on vinyl on twentieth anniversary

March 17, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 1
And tours extensively to support its release. As previously reported in November, it was twenty years ago when Martha Wainwright stepped out of her family’s illustrious shadow and announced herself to the world with her debut […]
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Counting Crows announce autumn 2025 UK dates

March 13, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0
Counting Crows have announced The Complete Sweets! Tour in support of their forthcoming album “Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!” Kicking off on June 10th in Nashville, TN, the tour will bring the band’s live show to […]

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Austin singer-songwriter Alex Amen announces debut album for June

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Austin singer-songwriter Alex Amen announces debut album for June

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Alex Amen, the 26-year-old indie folk-country singer-songwriter from Texas, has announced his debut album, Sun of Amen, which will be out on 12th June 2026 via ATO Records. Newly signed to the label, Amen’s full-length debut […]
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Benjamin Tod “Vengeance and Grace”

April 22, 2026 0
An experienced and honest songwriter explores both sides of his stylistic background, performing the same songs twice. In a career of around 20 years, this appears to be Tod’s 21st album, either primarily with the Lost […]
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Steep Canyon Rangers “Roll Of The Dice” – let the bones roll where they will

April 22, 2026 0
Gearing up for the release of their fifteenth studio album; not counting the collaborations with renowned bluegrass banjoist Steve Martin, the Steep Canyon Rangers: Graham Sharp (banjo, vocals), Mike Guggino (mandolin/mandola, vocals), Aaron Burdett (guitar, vocals), […]

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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

April 21, 2026 0
Dale Watson figured it out. He figured out what’s wrong with our disconnected, polarised era. He figured out why we’re caught in a death spiral of social media outrage, intractable positions, and argument instead of dialogue. […]
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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

April 17, 2026 0
Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
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Interview: Thomas Ådland, of Thomas & The Angry Hearts, on Language, Love and Identity

April 13, 2026 0
Two days before I heard them fill Martin’s Bar in Lillestrøm, I watched Thomas & The Angry Hearts make music in a wooden house surrounded by trees. In that studio, sound was built patiently: a harmony […]

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Video: Neil Young “Keep On Rockin’ In The Free World”

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As it’s that weekend again here’s Mr Young there in 2009 with an incendiary “Rockin’ In The Free World” followed by a lovely version of “A Day In The Life“.  Have a great weekend wherever you […]
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Old Salt Union “Old Salt Union” (Compass Records, 2017)

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Old Salt Union are a five piece traditional old time string band playing music that any fan of the likes of Old Crow Medicine Show or The Infamous Stringdusters will instantly fall in love with. This […]
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AUK Mini-Gig: Wes Collins

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Last spring, I asked Chapel Hill, North Carolina singer-songwriter extraordinaire, Wes Collins, to record a mini-gig session for Americana UK. Since you can view it below by pressing the reclining red triangle, he obviously came through. […]

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