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Various Artists “My Grief on the Sea”

June 25, 2025 Daisy Innes 0
A moment of Irish history tied up in a sea of musical artistry. “My Grief on the Sea” takes the listener on a voyage back to the nineteenth century, brutally and honestly telling the tales of the […]
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AUK Short Cuts: Tim Turophile, Reid Andrés, Murray Attaway, Grundhoefer & Brimer, Tawny Ellis, Big Love Car Wash, Nathalie Archangel, Slash Pine Drifters and Alison Tucker

June 24, 2025 Peter Thompson 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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Gasoline Lollipops “Kill The Architect”

June 24, 2025 Andrew Raw 0
A brew of rock, country, soul, blues and dark words that is never dull. “Kill The Architect” is Gasoline Lollipops’ seventh studio album and follows 2022’s “Nightmares”. The band, from Boulder, Colorado, have produced an impressive […]
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Julia Sanders “Dark Matter”

June 24, 2025 Gordon Mackay 0
Julia Sanders explores the unknown, accompanied by strong melodies and groovy rhythms. 90% of the universe is made up of mass we can neither measure nor understand. Asheville-based artist Julia Sanders takes this cosmic fact and […]
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Meir Levine “Long and Lonesome Highway”

June 23, 2025 Guy Lincoln 0
A new cosmic Americana star arrives fully-fledged on striking debut. Brooklyn-based Meir Levine has similar concerns to many of us. He’s exercised by such fundamental questions as “What do I really care about?” and “Who do […]

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Something for the weekend: Son Volt “If I Could”

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Well that’s it from us for this week and we leave you dear reader with a new song from alt-country heroes/pioneers/stalwarts/choose your own noun Son Volt whose latest album Sound Signal Serenades was physically released on […]
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Bella White “A Sign In The Weather”

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A strong third album from the rootsy Canadian “Appalachian” artist from New Orleans showing raw emotion and a degree of post-breakup positivity. As you listen to each song on Bella White’s new studio album you feel […]
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Jawdropped have a “Secret To Spare” and October dates

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Jawdropped, a four-piece from Los Angeles, have announced their debut album, Secret To Spare, due 18th September via Transgressive Records / Canvasback. The band has also released the first single, Split Lip, along with a video […]

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Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for

July 16, 2026 0
Nothing I Can’t Undo is such a deeply earnest, empathetic and personal album that captures exactly what a solo debut is supposed to be by introducing us, in full, to Taylor Bickett, a 20-something singer/songwriter from […]
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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

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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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