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Bluegrass Briefs: C.J. Lewandowski with Bobby Osborne, Echo Valley, The Onlies, The Unfaithful Servants, Wes Corbett.

October 21, 2025 Tim Martin 1
It may have been a while since our last look around the world of bluegrass, but there have been some great albums released over the summer and Autumn. Tradition is a big part of bluegrass. Even […]
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Brendan Regan “Phenomenal Consolation”

October 21, 2025 Chas Lacey 0
Haunting fiddle-driven folk and post-punk ‘Celticana’ with fine poetic lyricism. With his second full-length collection, Seattle-based Brendan Regan draws upon traditional folk and Celtic influences while tapping into his former life as drummer in a post-punk […]
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Coyle Girelli “Out of This Town”

October 20, 2025 Andy Davidson 0
Mutual respect and a classy collaboration. The gist – it has been more than ten years since Coyle Girelli co-wrote with country singer/songwriter Mac Davis. Davis wrote two of Presley’s biggest hits, ‘In the Ghetto’ and […]
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AUK Shortcuts: Kirsten Adamson, Garrett Hendricks, Levi Foster, Austin Stambaugh, Jack Schneider, The Shallow Riverbanks, Elizabeth & Jameson and Peter Stampfel

October 20, 2025 Paul Kerr 0
Our latest Short Cuts, a monthly feature where AUK casts a brief eye and ear on several albums we’ve received recently, which just didn’t make the cut for a full review. Like most major music websites, […]
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Ladybird “Clementine”

October 20, 2025 Tim Martin 0
A mix of ’90s rock and country produces an album trying to be too many things to too many people.  Country music is a strange thing. For something so rooted in tradition, it is often subject […]

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Something for the weekend: This is Lorelie “Where’s Your Love Now (Waxahatchee Version)”

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Well that’s it from us for this week. Regular readers will no doubt be sick to death now of me plugging this guy but his stuff is so good and as if any more proof was […]
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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

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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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Remedy Motel “Counting Sand”

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Utah band on a roll with their second ‘comeback’ album after a 15-year hiatus. You feel as though you should showcase this band in our Feature article More People Really Should Know About..…because, despite the fact […]

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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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Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Ríoghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

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How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]

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Tom Petty is one of the strongest and most resonant of all the artists connecting the 1970s to current Americana. In a desperately shortened career that still spanned over 41 years he wrote songs that appealed […]
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Midwestern Mrs “Me And You” – invisible sadness

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A new song from Georgia Evans who records as Midwestern Mrs – ‘Me And You‘ is a love song of reluctant acceptance and is more than tinged by melancholia.  The love is there, that’s for certain, […]

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