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Eliza Gilkyson “Dark Ages”

August 20, 2025 Fiona Golden 0
Hope transcends palpable anger. In Eliza Gilkyson’s world, shadowy politicians, warhawks, and chauvinists are Shakespearean in their destruction, pride sealing their fate and dooming them to repeat the past. In the wake of the US invasion […]
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Charley Crockett “Dollar A Day”

August 19, 2025 Paul Kerr 0
Charley Crockett goes from strength to strength on his second major label release. There’s no doubt that Charley Crockett is on a roll. “Dollar A Day” is his 15th album, with his last four being released […]
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The Pleasures “Enemy Of My Enemy”

August 19, 2025 Fiona Golden 0
A cynical litany of love gone wrong. Born from hectic writing sessions late at night, The Pleasures have offered an album that critically examines where the blame lies in lost love. The Melbourne-based duo, Catherine Britt […]
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Ada Lea “when i paint my masterpiece”

August 18, 2025 Daisy Innes 0
Ada Lea offers an exploration into Canadian folk music, stepping into her intimately personal world whilst reflecting the modern life around her.  “when i paint my masterpiece” is an album of detailed observations on Lea’s community, […]
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Live Review: Julian Taylor + Michele Stodart, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 8th August 2025

August 18, 2025 Graeme Tait 4
One of the advantages of having caught the music bug at such an early age is that I have been privileged to witness some of the world’s finest artists, musicians, and singer-songwriters from the last six […]

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Diana Darby “Otterson”

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Songs of love and hate with a layer of ghostly eeriness. When the Eagles reunited to stage their Hell Freezes Over TV special, Don Henley famously said that “For the record, we never broke up, we […]
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Video: The Attention Seekers “It Doesn’t Happen Every Day”

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The Attention Seekers from Newcastle don’t have a band name which does them justice given we are very happy to seek their attention! And they have a new song out now about which songwriter Alan Fish […]

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Interview: Beau Jennings – In Tribute to Will Rogers and the Verdigris

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If History was your favourite class in school, raise your digital hand. Only two? Come on, the subject is not that dull. Now pay attention. Today, we are going to learn about a river called the […]
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Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

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Chicago-born and LA-based singer-songwriter Truman Sinclair will be a new name to many AUK readers, although the more observant of you will have noticed his song Joel Roberts topped my top tracks of 2025 list published […]
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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

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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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Listen to the lead single from the album ‘P&P’. Campbell / Jensen is a new project from two musicians with a fairly huge array of experience across the worlds of Americana, country, bluegrass, gypsy jazz and […]
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