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Craig Gerdes “Tough as Nails” (Independent, 2020)

June 9, 2020 Guy Lincoln 1
Make no mistake this is a country album, a no-nonsense, old fashioned honest to god working-man’s country record. And it’s as fine a one as you will hear this year: if not next year as well, […]
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Kieran Conaway “Your Ghosts” (Buoy58, 2020)

June 9, 2020 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0
The Americana music scene is getting crowded with new names. Getting a record deal is hard to come by, and in these hard times, it is even going to get harder. So it is no wonder […]
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Northline “this is AHORA” (Tunedly, 2020)

June 9, 2020 Viv Fish 0
This 5-song EP, by Northline, was inspired by a book of the same name by Willy Vlautin (of Richmond Fontaine, The Delines). In a nutshell, the book tells the story of a young girl living a […]
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Jason Simon “A Venerable Wreck” (BYM Records, 2020)

June 9, 2020 Mark Johnson 0
Few artists reviewed by AUK have had a Peel Session, but back in 2001, Jason Simon (as part of his still extant band Dead Meadow) recorded one for John Peel in Fugazi’s home studio. An energetic […]
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Lara Herscovitch “Highway Philosophers” (Independent, 2020)

June 8, 2020 Helen Jones 1
The themes Lara Herscovitch covers in her songs are broad to say the least; they range from (literal and figurative) small things like caterpillar racing and tire pressure, to loftier topics such as the meaning of […]

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Park Hills Circle “All Of A Sudden” – seasons change

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Video Premiere: The Kennedys “Without Us” – nature might do better

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Hollow Hand announces new album for September and UK Tour

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Hudson NY duo Babehoven to release third album in the autumn

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Brennan Gilmore “My Name Is Daniel Leek”

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Park Hills Circle “All Of A Sudden” – seasons change

July 15, 2026 0
Park Hills Circle is the solo project of Maris Tierney, and Alaskan-Irish singer-songwriter who lives in Chicago.  She’s just released the debut album All Of A Sudden, and today we have the title track to share.  Maris is […]
Videos

Video Premiere: The Kennedys “Without Us” – nature might do better

July 15, 2026 0
Here is the video for Without Us, the new single from folk duo The Kennedys. Through the song, singer-songwriters Pete Kennedy and Maura Kennedy explore the impact that humans have on the world around us, the […]
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Hollow Hand announces new album for September and UK Tour

July 14, 2026 0
Hollow Hand, the project of Brighton’s Max Kinghorn-Mills, steps out of the bedroom on Wish Road South, recorded live as a trio after touring with MJ Lenderman and Caitlin Rose. The album comes out on the […]

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Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0
Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]
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Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations

July 7, 2026 1
Like the old sailors of yore, Hank Alrich sure knows how to spin a yarn, though I doubt his are made up or heavily stretched. They keep your attention. I would contentedly sit in an armchair […]
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Interview: Dietmar Leibecke on the ethos of Germany’s Static Roots Music Festival

July 6, 2026 3
Americana UK’s Rick Bayles’ monthly column, Vox Continental, shines a light on what is happening on the americana front in Europe. In his most recent column, Rick gave the nod to the Static Roots Festival, which […]

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Sounds from beyond the Shed 230 “Travel – a necessary luxury”

May 11, 2026 0
I’m back from 3 weeks of glorious touring around the Iberian Peninsula in the van. A total of 2,400 miles as we circled the entire country with a brief excursion into Portugal, and every single mile […]
Videos

Video Premiere: Elaine Palmer “Blackened Heart”

February 14, 2019 0
This is the excellent new single from Elaine Palmer, taken from her Desert Songs EP.  It’s out tomorrow and there’s a launch show on the 17th at the Waiting Room, Eaglescliffe with more dates afterwards, all […]
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Son Volt release video for new track “Devil May Care”

February 20, 2019 0
Son Volt’s new album is on the way next month and our over-excitement isn’t being helped by the drip drip of material from the record, including now a new video which focuses on the daily grind […]

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