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Book Review: Cidny Bullens “TransElectric: My Life as a Cosmic Rock Star”

November 27, 2023 Rick Bayles 0

On the surface, this book could be just another story of rock and roll excess and the struggle for fame – if it wasn’t for the fascinating addition of the transition of wannabe female rock star […]

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The Wildwood Family “Random Number”

November 27, 2023 Jonathan Smith 0

The Bluegrass Abba? Yes, please! Sometimes, what you’re expecting isn’t what you get; and when what you’re expecting is something good, and what you get is something even better, then that’s gold dust. Founded in 2008, […]

Daniel Rodriguez live at the Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey, - 17th November 2023

Live Review: Daniel Rodriguez and Friends, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 17th November 2023

November 27, 2023 Graeme Tait 0

It is now over five years since Daniel Rodriguez, founding member of Colorado based outfit Elephant Revival, set off on a solo career. Despite the impact of the pandemic the pursuing years have proved to be […]

Bill Jackson “1965”

November 27, 2023 Andy Davidson 0

Antipodean Troubadour goes back to the beginning. Bill Jackson’s previous album ‘The Wayside Ballads Vol 3′ won Contemporary Album of the Year at the Australian Folk Music Awards in 2021. In partnership with his brother Ross, […]

AUK’s EP Round-Up – November 2023

November 24, 2023 Alan Fitter 0

It’s that time again and here’s a round-up of this month’s EP releases. We’ve had a lot of submissions recently (because it’s not long to Christmas?) so there is no time or space to analyse each […]

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Chris Knight - Chris Knight
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Hurray for the Riff Raff - Live Forever
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Old 97s - Too Far to Care
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R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
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Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac
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Wilco - summerteeth
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Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun
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Rolling Stones - Some Girls
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Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

March 23, 2026 0

An ambitious debut album that bravely tackles some very British subjects with an americana-folk twang. The genre may be americana – and America is most certainly struggling with its own set of problems right now – […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Tracks

AVERS “Everything Hz” – Listen

January 29, 2018 0

It’s true, there is too much music and sometimes…just sometimes…a great album slips by unacknowledged. Emerging in the middle of last year Omega/Whatever, the second release from AVERS is one such – it’s an album about […]

Live Reviews

Dale Watson, The 100 Club, London, 16th March 2018

March 21, 2018 2

Shortly after 8.30pm, a passing punter in the 100 Club said to another fellow gig goer, “I thought that was Billy Idol for a moment.” It’s actually a reference to the gravity defying pompadour sitting atop […]

Album Reviews

The Bros. Landreth “Dog Ear”

November 27, 2025 0

An adventurous and experimental release which fans of Bonnie Raitt and Little Feat will revel in. Genre lines are often blurry, and on “Dog Ear” Canada’s The Bros. Landreth do their bit to muddy the waters […]

Book Review: Cidny Bullens “TransElectric: My Life as a Cosmic Rock Star”

The Wildwood Family “Random Number”

Live Review: Daniel Rodriguez and Friends, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 17th November 2023

Bill Jackson “1965”

AUK’s EP Round-Up – November 2023

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”

Sounds from beyond the Shed 228 “Don’t Panic”