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The Pleasures “The Beginning of The End”

November 16, 2023 Viv Fish 0

Don’t go calling Ghostbusters when there are Homewreckers and Mutual Friends to help you. Formed in 2021, The Pleasures are fronted by Australian country music icon Catherine Britt who has an established, well-decorated, musical background. With […]

Lauren Housley & The Northern Cowboys, live at The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey. 4th November 2023.

Live Review: Lauren Housley & The Northern Cowboys + Stella Prince, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 4th November 2023

November 15, 2023 Graeme Tait 2

The persistent rain may have put a damper on proceedings for the weekend’s bonfire festivities but it clearly was no deterrent for the enthusiastic congregation that had crammed into Lincolnshire’s premier Americana Music venue at the […]

Jared Dustin “Battle Cry Mercy”

November 15, 2023 Paul Russell 0

Soul-searching solo debut from gruff-voiced troubadour. Life’s challenges and tribulations so often imbue musicians’ songs – a life richly experienced is bound to bring a sense of reality and meaning to any songwriter’s material. And so […]

Josh Radnor “Eulogy: Volume 1”

November 15, 2023 Martin Johnson 0

Saying goodbye to parts of life and welcoming the start of new chapters. Though his name may not be that familiar to UK audiences, Josh Radnor is a successful American actor and producer who won an […]

Album cover artwork for 'Back to the Valley' by Low Water Bridge Band

Low Water Bridge Band “Back to the Valley”

November 14, 2023 Andrew Raw 0

Lively alt-country telling authentic tales from the Virginia mountains. Formed in 2020, Low Water Bridge Band hail from Clarke County, Virginia, a town about 40 miles northwest of Washington DC. However, more importantly, it is also […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

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 […]

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 […]

Videos

Video Premiere: Alison Wilder “Wilder”

December 16, 2024 0

Here’s the dreamily-captivating new single from Alison Wilder (formerly known as Alison Rae). “Wilder” features gentle, tumbling keys over sustained notes – a subtle, beautiful instrumental foundation for Wilder’s sweetly melodic vocal. Her warm, tuneful voice […]

Tracks

Track Premiere: Sam Kogon “Barbed Wire”

February 3, 2022 0

Sam Kogon has had a varied career so far, which has the appearance of at least stumbling always into good fortune. He briefly sang lead vocals in the reformed 1960s group The Left Banke in 2015, […]

Book Reviews

Paperback Riders – Willy Vlautin “Lean on Pete”

November 25, 2022 0

Willy Vlautin will be best known to AUK readers as the guitarist and songwriter with Richmond Fontaine and The Delines. At the same time, he has been building a career as a novelist and short story […]

The Pleasures “The Beginning of The End”

Live Review: Lauren Housley & The Northern Cowboys + Stella Prince, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 4th November 2023

Jared Dustin “Battle Cry Mercy”

Josh Radnor “Eulogy: Volume 1”

Low Water Bridge Band “Back to the Valley”

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

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”