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Melissa Carper “Borned In Ya”

July 23, 2024 Guy Lincoln 0
Unique Texan voice revels in the old-times(y), again. Thirty plus years of devotion to music and music-making and three albums into a career as a solo recording artist and Melissa Carper here offers up her definitive […]
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The Makers Out “Bloodlines/Hope”

July 22, 2024 Darren Lumbroso 0
Beautifully produced debut album which carries the flame of Cosmic American music into the future. ‘Bloodlines/Hope‘ is The Makers Out’s debut album, a beautiful produced record which weaves a rich musical tapestry. The Makers Out is […]
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Jeff Crosby “Another Petal Falls off the Rose”

July 19, 2024 Viv Fish 0
A reflective collection of inspired songs produced by the legendary bassist Dave Schools from Widespread Panic. Singer-songwriter Jeff Crosby describes this, his seventh studio album, as “the sound of a 36-year-old musician/traveller and his band from […]
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Mark Geary “In The Time Of Locusts”

July 19, 2024 Darren Lumbroso 0
Thoughtful sixth album from Irish singer-songwriter. Mark Geary was born in Dublin but spent 20 years living in New York, having won a green card in the lottery, where he set up home in the East […]
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Joana Serrat “Big Wave”

July 18, 2024 Andy Davidson 0
Time stretching and pitch shifting depths. Luddites best stop reading now. The sixth album from Catalan folk artist Joana Serrat is a sonic tsunami. Turbulent changes in Serrat’s personal life along with challenging times in the […]

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Simon Joyner “Tough Love”

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In the lo-fi indie folk tradition, a deeply personal meditation on grief and loss by the Omaha, Nebraska-based singer-songwriter. There is something deeply intriguing about an artist who has, through the 30-plus years of his career, […]
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Still Life Painter “A Month of Longest Days”

May 21, 2026 0
Lowland lo-fi compositions of “love, loss and lap steel”. Phil Smith was part of Glasgow’s thriving indie-rock scene before embarking on his solo venture as Still Life Painter. In 2018, he took on bass duties for […]
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AUK’s Monthly EP Round-Up

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Okay, I’m back. And before we turn our attention to this month’s wares, can I start by thanking my esteemed colleague Fred Arnold, who, in my absence, kindly picked up the baton for April’s edition of […]

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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

May 20, 2026 0
There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]
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Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

May 19, 2026 2
Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]
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Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

May 18, 2026 1
At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

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Eilen Jewell “Deportee” – a timely cover

April 1, 2026 0
Today it’s good news and bad news – the first being that Eilen Jewell has a new single out, and the second being that it is accompanied by the announcement that after twenty years of touring […]
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The Burning Hell “Revival Beach” (BB*ISLAND, 2017)

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It’s the apocalypse, how did it happen? Well this portmanteau from the ever reliable Burning Hell approaches it (the end of the world as we know it) from multiple angles drawing out the humour, the tiny […]
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John Murry announces more UK dates – September

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