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Robert Vincent “Barriers”

June 19, 2024 Martin Johnson 0
Songs with emotionally mature lyrics and beautifully crafted arrangements. Those readers of a certain age will remember when any new half-decent songwriter came along the press of the day would more often than not tag them […]
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Jesse Daniel “Countin’ The Miles”

June 18, 2024 Tim Martin 0
Country in the Merle Haggard tradition played and sung with passion and panache. The opening song and lead single ‘Comin’ Apart At The Seams’ sets the tone for Jesse Daniel’s new album. The chorus: “This old […]
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Live Review: Arisaig Americana Music Festival, 31st May – 2nd June 2024

June 18, 2024 Cam Fraser 0
Arisaig is a little village in the West of Scotland and their annual festival is a labour of love for the organisers and the local volunteers who all work hard to make this excellent little weekend […]
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Sadler Vaden “Dad Rock”

June 17, 2024 FredArnold 1
A surprise new album celebrating Father’s Day and fatherhood from a guitar great. If you need to ask who Sadler Vaden is, then you have not been paying attention to the domination of Jason Isbell and […]
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Live Review: Taylor Swift, Anfield Stadium Liverpool – 13th June 2024

June 14, 2024 Mark Whitfield 7
So you’ll be aware dear reader that it’s not often that we cover acts with the reach of Taylor Swift here on AUK, and I knew when I began writing this review that I’d have to […]

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Live Review: Kaitlin Butts + Meels, Band on the Wall, Manchester – 18th May 2026

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Kaitlin Butts’ breakthrough to a UK audience was at The Long Road Festival in 2024, where an Interstate stage band show, a fabulous acoustic set and a guest appearance with Lola Kirke placed her on the […]
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Benny Bleu “When I am a Fossil”

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A banjo-helmed ecological concept album. Those of a nervous disposition may wish to steel themselves in advance of this review, in that it contains several references to the “B” word; that’s “banjo” to you and me. […]
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The latest AUK podcast is live now featuring Alela Diane & Thomas Dollbaum

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This week’s Podcast sees Keith talking to two fabulous singer-songwriters, both of whom have new albums out today. Alela Diane with Who’s Keeping Time and Thomas Dollbaum with Birds of Paradise. There is also the new […]

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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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Video Premiere: Icarus Phoenix “The Things You Never Told Me”

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We are honoured to premiere the latest video from the always-outstanding Icarus Phoenix.  In the video, we follow the band around Tokyo as they take in the sights (check out that giant Godzilla) and perform on […]
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Bruce Springsteen “Repo Man” – that’s mine now, pal

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What did we say?  We said seven previously unreleased albums was almost bound to bring us seven previously unheard songs – and here’s the latest. ‘Repo Man’ kicks off the unreleased album ‘Somewhere North of Nashville’ […]
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Video: Sean Rowe I’ll Follow Your Trail”

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From his very fine album New Lore, this the latest great song from Sean Rowe, sung of course in *that* voice.

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