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Joshua Burnside “Teeth of Time”

April 3, 2025 Chas Lacey 0
An innovative electronica-infused approach to melodic Irish folk. The upward trajectory of Belfast-based Joshua Burnside has been well-documented in the pages of AMA UK, such that many readers will be familiar with his brand of electronica-infused […]
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Live Review: Luck Reunion, Austin Texas – 13th March 2025

April 3, 2025 Mark Howson 0
Following on from Oliver Gray’s SXSW report we have another AUK reviewer who was at SXSW and took the time to bus it out to the annual Luck Reunion one day festival, hosted by Willie Nelson. […]
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Helene Cronin “Maybe New Mexico”

April 3, 2025 Alasdair Fotheringham 0
No ‘maybe’ about it: flawless bedrock americana through and through. There are a lot of typical americana topics on the ten tracks of Texas singer-songwriter Helene Cronin’s third album, ‘Maybe New Mexico’. We start off in […]
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Northline “All Things Done”

April 2, 2025 Gordon Mackay 0
An intense, brooding return for Spain’s Northline. Northline are a 5-piece Spanish outfit fronted by singer and songwriter Enric Máñez. They are not the most prolific of bands; following a handful of EPs in 2020/21, this new […]
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Live Review: The Rye Sisters, Newbald Village Hall, North Newbald, Yorkshire – 23rd March 2025

April 2, 2025 Graeme Tait 0
This evening’s show saw your reviewer return to the Newbald Village Hall for the second of this year’s early evening concert event, which, despite the start time of 4.30 pm being well advertised, still managed to […]

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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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Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

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Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]
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Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

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At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

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The Burning Hell is the ongoing musical project of songwriter Mathias Kom and multi-instrumentalists Ariel Sharratt and Jake Nicoll, along with other sometime comrades and collaborators, a band for which we have a soft spot here […]
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