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Night Moves “Double Life”

August 4, 2025 Helen Jones 0
Artful production and clever lyrics make the band’s fourth album in six years a standout. A note to any songwriters out there: if you’re going to write of the struggles or doubts in your relationship, it’s […]
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Minor Gold “Way To The Sun”

August 4, 2025 Paul Kerr 0
Retro California sounds brought bang up to date. This is the second album from the Australian-based duo Minor Gold (Australian Dan Parsons and Canadian Tracy McNeil), the pair originally bonding in McNeil’s band, Tracy McNeil & […]
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Hillary Reynolds “Changing Seasons”

August 1, 2025 Tim Martin 0
A short but sweet album of highly personal songs with messages everyone can relate to. In common with many artists, Hillary Reynolds is still catching up with the world post-pandemic. She found herself with a set […]
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The Swell Season “Forward”

August 1, 2025 Darren Lumbroso 0
After a 16-year hiatus, the folk duo return with an introspective, heartfelt, and nostalgic album. The Swell Season was formed by Glen Hansard, an Irish singer-songwriter and frontman of The Frames, and Markéta Irglová, a Czech […]
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Mighty Joe Castro and The Gravamen “Between The Lightning and The Thunder”

July 31, 2025 Chas Lacey 0
Cinematic noir and poetic storytelling with a rockabilly Ameripolitan edge. Making their début in 2020 with their first full-length album, “Come On Angels”, the Philadelphia-based Mighty Joe Castro & The Gravamen announced themselves as an Ameripolitan […]

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For the Sake of the Song: Steve Young “Rock, Salt & Nails”

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For the Sake of the Song: Steve Young “Rock, Salt & Nails”

April 21, 2026 0
Before embarking on this feature, to avoid duplication, I conducted a search on ‘Steve Young’, on the AUK website and was surprised to find there are precious few recent pieces devoted to someone who was surely […]
Album Reviews

Chip Taylor “Words From Holy Gardens”

April 21, 2026 0
Poignancy heaped upon poignancy on Taylor’s final recordings Words From Holy Gardens was already a very emotionally wrought record, featuring as it does Chip Taylor’s home recordings of his responses to aging and in particular to […]
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Jesse Malin “Hollywood Forever” – tribute to a friend

April 21, 2026 0
After all the hard times Jesse Malin has been through in recent years it’s more than good to hear new sounds from the man who embodies the spirit of punkish-rock and roll.  The new songs are […]

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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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Interview: Thomas Ådland, of Thomas & The Angry Hearts, on Language, Love and Identity

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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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