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Bombadil “How The Moon Got Back Home”

October 1, 2025 Lyndon Bolton 0

Lunar adventures sparkling with acoustic folk and harmonies. Bombadil (no relation to The Bombadils) have been making music for two decades. Several band members have come and gone, but the core has remained constant. These are […]

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Rumble Strip “Sayonara, Baby”

September 30, 2025 Chas Lacey 0

Intimations of mortality with wry humour and a folk-rock feel. Rumble Strip formed in 2018 when writer Richard Rossi approached guitarist Dave Nachmanoff about working together. They released the EP “Let’s Roll” in 2021, and three […]

artwork for Joe Nolan album "Luv in the New World"

Joe Nolan “Luv in the New World”

September 30, 2025 Sebastian Reyes Turner 0

A search for truth amidst modern-day turmoil. “Luv in the New World” is the title of Canadian artist Joe Nolan’s new album, produced by Grammy Award winner Tyler Chester. Mostly recorded on tape live off the […]

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Robert Jon & The Wreck “Heartbreaks & Last Goodbyes”

September 29, 2025 Andy Short 0

Californian rockers return with a set of songs rooted in the Deep South. Hailing from Southern California, Robert Jon & The Wreck have their feet firmly on the ground in the east beyond the red clay […]

The Whispering Tree “Bones of Better Days”

September 29, 2025 John Lee 0

Slow-burning and beautifully crafted, The Whispering Tree’s new album is a journey through memory and renewal, full of luminous songwriting and elegant, emotionally resonant arrangements. Duo El Kleiner and Elie Brangbour – known as The Whispering […]

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Interviews

Interview: Adam Levy on the Honeydogs celebrated return

February 23, 2026 0

Experiencing a rebirth with Algebra for Broken Hearts, the St. Paul, Minnesota band’s twelfth album on Julian Records (2025), is crucial language, one voicing an undersung American existence. Like the novel, I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif […]

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Interview: Mean Mary answers six of one and half a dozen of the other

February 18, 2026 0

The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It’s not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with the […]

Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

February 17, 2026 0

Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

Album Reviews

Pale Mara “Pale Mara” (Independent, 2018)

November 26, 2018 0

How best to sum up Pale Mara? By saying that the collaboration of Allison Robinson and Lee Godleski is an easy listen, does that damn this debut album with faint praise? The Cambridge English Dictionary definition of […]

Features

AUK Back Pages No. 22

February 4, 2026 2

It’s the last four months of AUK’s tenth year as the premier online resource for all matters Americana. To mark the occasion there was a tenth birthday bash held in its heartland of Liverpool with a […]

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Victor Camozzi “Black Dog” (Volco Records, 2020)

June 18, 2020 0

Victor Camozzi has a compelling, warbling, Texas drawl that helps frame his lyrics with a tasteful sincerity. On his fourth album, ‘Black Dog’, Camozzi sings about all the things you would expect a bearded, long-haired cowboy […]

Bombadil “How The Moon Got Back Home”

Rumble Strip “Sayonara, Baby”

Joe Nolan “Luv in the New World”

Robert Jon & The Wreck “Heartbreaks & Last Goodbyes”

The Whispering Tree “Bones of Better Days”

Pert Near Sandstone “Side by Side”

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