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Alice Howe & Freebo, live at the Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey - 7th November 2025

Live Review: Alice Howe and Freebo, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 7th November 2025

November 14, 2025 Graeme Tait 0

With the clocks now moved to winter time, the journey from my home in Lincoln to the county’s premier americana music venue, the Town Hall at Kirton in Lindsey, was made under the blanket of night, […]

Michael McGovern album artwork for "Thin White Road"

Michael McGovern “Thin White Road”

November 14, 2025 Ben Yelton 0

Second album from literary folk artist looks beyond the boundaries of the genre with startling results. Michael McGovern returns with his second album, following on from “Highfield Suite”, a near-solo effort recorded in lockdown, “Nebraska”– style […]

AVTT/PTTN “AVTT/PTTN”

November 13, 2025 Graeme Tait 10

The unexpected collaboration between The Avett Brothers and Mike Patton combines the sugar with the spice to create something very nice indeed. As collaborations go, this has to be one of the most unlikely, with Scott […]

AUK Shortcuts: We Met In June, The Thumping Tommys, Lost Post, John Jenkins, Jesca Hoop, Good News Now We Can Eat All The Vampires, Jacob Faurholt, Luba Dvorak and The Men From Nowhere

November 13, 2025 Paul Kerr 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, […]

Ethan Daniel Davidson “Lear”

November 13, 2025 Peter Churchill 0

A slow-burner rewards the patient listener. Detroit-based Ethan Daniel Davidson is nothing if not prolific. ‘Lear’ is Davidson’s fourteenth studio album and, even more impressively, his second of 2025. If that earlier album, “Cordelia”, helped reinforce […]