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Robert Forster “Strawberries”

July 3, 2025 Paul Kerr 0
Forster’s ninth album finds him in a happier place as he finds solace in Sweden. The ghost of The Go-Betweens continues to hover over the solo career of Robert Forster, one half (one third really when […]
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Lisa Akuah “Golden Seams”

July 2, 2025 Helen Jones 0
A refreshing perspective and a unique voice helps “Golden Seams” stand out from a slew of similar singer-songwriter offerings. “Everything that left a crack in me / A break / A gap / A piece amiss […]
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Live Review: Ani DiFranco, Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow – 25th June 2025

July 2, 2025 KC Vines 0
Part way through the gig, during her 1994 song ‘You Had Time’, Ani DiFranco, in cargo pants and crop-sleeved top, sings sweetly “How can I go home/ with nothing to say …what did you do out […]
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Kai Crowe-Getty “The Wreckage”

July 2, 2025 John Lee 0
A solo album of scars and survival – poetic without being abstract, deeply human and rooted in American soil. Kai Crowe-Getty, the frontman of Lord Nelson, has collected together these tracks across a number of years. […]
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Luke Tuchscherer “Living Through History”

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Think music and politics don’t mix? Listen to this, and then decide. “I suppose this could be considered my protest album” is how Bedford artist Luke Tuchscherer describes “Living Through History” on the blurb on the […]

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A warm enough to not need a jacket evening, and a stroll down a surprisingly empty Oxford Street on a still early Sunday evening, which ended at the 100 Club entrance, which, again, surprisingly, was not […]
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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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Anniversary Cheers: Don Williams “Epilogue – The Cellar Tapes”

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Recordings from more than 40 years ago are unearthed by country music icon’s son, cleaned up and remastered. Well, I do hope AUK readers will forgive this foray into mainstream country music, but we are honouring […]

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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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