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Eckman returns to deliver a new album and the promise of a tour -čudovito!

November 19, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0
Chris Eckman is one of those songwriters that we love here at AUK Towers. He’s proved it over the years as the songwriter of the Seattle rock-folk band The Walkabouts, as well as across a six-album […]
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“Wild Winter” is coming – Smoke Fairies to reissue album for 10th anniversary

November 19, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
Smoke Fairies will put out a 10th anniversary reissue of their themed album “Wild Winter” via the band’s own imprint Year Seven Records on 13th December 2024. Originally released in 2014 exclusively through Rough Trade, “Wild […]
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Italian alt country pioneers Satellite Inn tour UK for the first time ever

November 18, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0
Their first dates in sixteen years! You read that right, Satellite Inn are heading this way in late November for a run of just four shows in support of their self-titled album released this year. Don’t […]
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Video: TT “My Confession”

November 18, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0
The new single from LA-based troubadour TT is a catchy, memorable song that feels immediately familiar.  “My Confession” builds on a brilliant rhythm, over which a compelling tune and soaring chorus hook you in.  The highlight […]
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Transatlantic Sessions announces special guests for 2025 tour dates

November 15, 2024 Richard Parkinson 1
Transatlantic Sessions 2025 celebrates 30 years since the original TV series first aired.  An annual focal point of Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow and a highlight of the winter concert calendar, the line-up of Transatlantic Sessions […]

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Essentials: The Top 10 Hurray For The Riff Raff Songs

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In a nod to Woody Guthrie, a 2014 American Songwriter magazine cover featured Hurrah For The Riff Raff with the strapline, “Bound for Glory”. I’m not sure how the author of that article defined glory, yet […]
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José González “Against The Dying Of The Light”

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first thoughts José González is a Swedish indie-folk singer – with, naturally, the usual background in hardcore punk influenced by Black Flag and choral singing – Against The Dying Of The Light is his fifth album, […]
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Bedouine, the project of LA-based musician Azniv Korkejian, releases her new album, Neon Summer Skin, on 5th June 2026 via Thirty Tigers. Across Neon Summer Skin, Korkejian intentionally returned to the instruments she played as a […]

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Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him

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At age 82, Charlie Musselwhite continues to put out relevant and meaningful albums. Sweet. While his body of work may not conjure memories for some of our younger readers, it’s great to see him continuing his […]
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Video Interview: Matt Hill’s Salford Celebration of Guy Clark’s Catalogue on his 10th Anniversary

April 22, 2026 0
Matt Hill has combined his career as a singer-songwriter with his work as a campaigner in the charity sector and currently as a community songwriter. He has tasted success as an americana singer-songwriter and played in […]
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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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The Twang Factor 2 presents: Jess Jocoy

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In Week 3 we present Jess Jocoy, a singer-songwriter originally from near Seattle but now residing in Nashville. Having made the move from her Pacific North-West home to Nashville, Jess Jocoy released her debut album ‘Such a […]
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Sufjan Stevens speaks up for refugees

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Some more glimmers of hope in the darkness, and who better to glimmer than Sufjan. Pitchfork reports: “Sufjan Stevens has shared a new statement addressed to America about immigrants and refugees. “There is really no such thing […]
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Dean Harlem “Red Oak Hill” – heading for those country roads

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Dean Harlem clearly believes that making music is his role in life – Dean Harlem is originally from Donetsk, Ukraine but his family emigrated to the US when he was 4. He grew up in New […]

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