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Jeremy Squires “Poem” (Independent, 2019)

August 30, 2019 Sean Hannam 0

North Carolina’s Jeremy Squires has been battling his personal demons for the past few years by writing songs – they’ve helped him to overcome depression and anxiety. His previous releases, including 2017’s ‘Collapse’, have recounted his […]

Israel Nash + Leslie Stevens, Oran Mor, Glasgow, 26th August 2019

August 30, 2019 Paul Kerr 0

Coming to the end of a long series of tours promoting his latest album ‘Lifted’, Israel Nash and his road warriors are by now fully blooded and it showed tonight as they treated this audience to […]

Joe Pug “The Flood In Color” (Nation of Heat Records, 2019)

August 30, 2019 Tim Martin 0

In what is turning into a vintage year for quiet reflective music we now have Joe Pug’s new album ‘The Flood In Color‘. Don’t be fooled by the sleeve which looks like something from a 1970’s […]

Stuart Smith “The Sun EP” (Independent, 2019)

August 30, 2019 Mike Elliott 0

Stepping into 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, not to take a tour but to actually record your own songs, takes a special kind of nerve. Yet as Stuart Smith points out on his website, “There’s […]

Have Gun Will Travel “Strange Chemistry” (Mile Wide Records, 2019)

August 29, 2019 Guy Lincoln 0

Fourteen years and 6 albums into a career that has seen them firmly established as home-town-heroes in Bradenton Florida, Have Gun Will Travel have decided that now is the time to embark on a quest for the […]

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Behind the Songs: Thin Lear

May 13, 2026 0

The songs on Thin Lear’s sophomore album Many Disappeared are tied to each other not in their locale or their cast of characters, but instead in strange tragedies that have taken place, some many years ago. Current […]

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Yarn “Saturday Night Sermon”

May 13, 2026 0

Enjoyable southern rock release with lyrics that focus on the positive. Formed in Brooklyn at the end of 2006, but now based in North Carolina, Yarn tend to lean towards the southern rock element of americana. […]

Live Review: Merry McCloud & Bruce Welch, The Bread and Roses, London – 3rd May 2026

May 13, 2026 0

The Bread and Roses is located in the heart of Clapham, London. Owned by The Battersea and Wandsworth Trade Union Council, it consists of the ground-floor pub and a theatre space above. It’s a community-oriented establishment […]

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Interviews

Interview: Judy Collins doesn’t look back, she looks forward

May 12, 2026 0

“My home is in New York City, on the Upper West Side,” Judy Collins said, proudly holding up a painting by her sister of cats and dogs that resembles a Monet. When I mentioned travelling up […]

Interviews

Interview: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan discusses “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

May 5, 2026 0

Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]

Album Reviews

R.R. Williams “Unremarkable Lives”

July 30, 2024 0

A record which is well-versed in the loss of people’s youthful aggression. AUK recently premiered the track ‘Tulsa‘ from this album. Recorded at Purple Aura Studio the proprietor being none other than John Moreland. Mike Williams […]

Tracks

Tyler-James Kelly “Big Dreams” – and plans and schemes

November 15, 2024 1

We have neither honkeyed or, for that matter tonkeyed, for a while – well, that’s all about to be remedied. Tyler-James Kelly’s debut album ‘Dream River‘ has a definite feel of a ’70s take on honkey-tonking […]

Live Reviews

Jimmy Webb: The Stables, Wavendon – 21st September 2016

October 6, 2016 0

Jimmy Webb is, without a doubt, a songwriter of some high ability – even if he’s not best known for what are his most interesting compositions. His reputation in the UK has been burnished in recent […]

Jeremy Squires “Poem” (Independent, 2019)

Israel Nash + Leslie Stevens, Oran Mor, Glasgow, 26th August 2019

Joe Pug “The Flood In Color” (Nation of Heat Records, 2019)

Stuart Smith “The Sun EP” (Independent, 2019)

Have Gun Will Travel “Strange Chemistry” (Mile Wide Records, 2019)

Behind the Songs: Thin Lear

Yarn “Saturday Night Sermon”

Live Review: Merry McCloud & Bruce Welch, The Bread and Roses, London – 3rd May 2026

Van Morrison to play 5 night residency at new West London venue in September

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