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[ October 1, 2026 ] Essentials: The Top Ten Songs That Name-Drop Other Artists: AUK Readers’ Choice Essentials
[ October 1, 2026 ] Lawrence Rothman “Here Lies Love / Sawdust to Stardust” Album Reviews
[ October 1, 2026 ] Live Review: Petunia (solo without The Vipers), The Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham – 24th September 2026 Live Reviews
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Track Premiere: Parker Smith “Fray”

March 25, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

We’re into Nils Lofgren / Southside Johnny territory with today’s song premiere – Parker Smith has a new album ‘Underground‘ out on April 9th and the grooving ‘Fray’ is taken from it. There’s some smooth touches, […]

Paul Ruane “Sally Gardens / The Foxhunters” – Listen

March 24, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

Something a bit different for our midweek word free tune session – Paul Ruane was an accomplished traditional folk fiddle player, who was recorded in 2012 with the accompaniment of his wife Dee Ruane on button […]

Jon Klages “God Bless The Columbia House Record Club” – Listen

March 24, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

Jon Klages has a new album out on April 1st, called ‘Fabulous Twilight‘, and this song from it is a fabulous thing in that it acts as a biography for a large slice of the readership […]

Benjamin Miller “Try To Think” – Listen

March 23, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

Benjamin Miller is best known as the singer with Minneapolis’ The Federales, but he’s been keeping busy during the last year with a couple of side-projects. First there was The Looneys (we featured them in December) […]

Julien Baker “Heatwave” – Listen

March 22, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

Julien Baker’s latest single, the third from her new album ‘Little Oblivions‘, is a meditation on, well, not sweating the small stuff. Not a quiet meditation, more one that gets thrummed out on an impatient steering […]

Essentials: The Top Ten Songs That Name-Drop Other Artists: AUK Readers’ Choice

October 1, 2026 1

An Essentials occasional one-off feature, this one responding to our readers’ input. We ran a previous Essentials list which covered the top ten songs that name-drop other artists. As the title suggests, an artist mentions another […]

Artwork for Lawrence Rothman album Here Lies Love / Sawdust to Stardust "

Lawrence Rothman “Here Lies Love / Sawdust to Stardust”

October 1, 2026 0

Powerful confessional lyrics drive Lawrence Rothman’s journey to the dark side of Americana. For their fifth album, Here Lies Love / Sawdust to Stardust, Lawrence Rothman has brought an ‘A‘ list of collaborators, including Madi Diaz, […]

Petunia live at the Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham - 24th September 2026

Live Review: Petunia (solo without The Vipers), The Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham – 24th September 2026

October 1, 2026 0

The Kitchen Garden Café in King’s Heath, Birmingham, makes you glad people still believe in putting good music in small rooms. Attached to a restaurant and garden centre by day, it becomes an intimate music venue […]