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Kassi Valazza “Shadow of Lately” – why is life so bittersweet?

April 10, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
There’s a sombre tone to the latest single from Kassi Valazza’s new album ‘From Newman Street’ which is due out May 2nd via Fluff & Gravy Records, and via our friends over at Loose in UK/Europe, […]
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Suzanne Vega “Chambermaid” – and pickpocket?

April 9, 2025 Jonathan Aird 2
On this, the latest single from Suzanne Vega’s soon-to-be-released album ‘Flying With Angels‘ we find the coffee shop folk-rock rebel picking up crumbs and re-arranging the books on their shelves for the looming singer-songwriter genius of […]
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Jim Basnight “Nazis Over There” – a janglepop warning from history

April 8, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
The latest release from dedicated Power Pop generator Jim Basnight is the second single from his upcoming – and yet unnamed – album.  The two songs making it up are ‘Nazis Over There’ and ‘So F’d […]
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Lucky Lips “Salt Sails The Sea” – tears that make you up

April 7, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
What did Malin Pettersen do before she found fame under her own name?   She fronted Lucky Lips, from 2010, and they are putting out their first release since 2016 – yes the old band is back […]
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Foxwarren “Listen2me” – for once, or twice or

April 4, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
So, the last time we were talking about Foxwarren we’d remarked that ten years is a long time for an album to gestate, but that’s what passed between Andy Shauf, the fraternal rhythm section of Avery […]

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Lastest AUK Podcast now available featuring Teenage Fanclub on the day of their new album release

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Teenage Fanclub “Do Not Dare To Dream”

October 9, 2026 0
Impressive follow-up to Nothing Lasts Forever, recorded in the Scottish Outer Hebrides. Recording sessions for the 13th Teenage Fanclub album took place on the remote Scottish Outer Hebrides island of Great Bernera at the Black Bay […]
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Lastest AUK Podcast now available featuring Teenage Fanclub on the day of their new album release

October 9, 2026 0
This week’s podcast features a long chat about touring, recording, and all things in between with Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley on the day of the release of their latest album as Teenage Fanclub. The album […]
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Johnny & Lillie Flynn “Rambling Man” – are you inclined to ramble?

October 9, 2026 0
This latest single from the upcoming album Beam Cottage, out on 6th November via Transgressive Records, is a radically reworked cover of the Hank Williams song which puts rambling out there as an act of chaos […]

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  • Lastest AUK Podcast now available featuring Teenage Fanclub on the day of their new album release
  • Johnny & Lillie Flynn “Rambling Man” – are you inclined to ramble?
  • Video: Jessi Colter “Same Old Blues” – a lost treasure
  • “The spirit of Americana UK” – our writing team remembers Paul Kerr
  • The Top 10 UK Americana Albums of All Time: Fred Arnold
  • Bill Scorzari “Sidereal Days (Day 2)”
  • Live Review: The Annie Keating Band + The Dreaming Spires, Little Rabbit Barn, Ardleigh, Colchester – 2nd October 2026
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Interview: Fischer-Z’s John Watts reminisces on 50 years of making heartfelt music

October 1, 2026 0
The songs of John Watts, whether in his band Fischer-Z, in his other bands or as a solo artist, aren’t technically Americana, but everything in their construction and recording has the feel of exactly what Americana […]
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Interview: Shawn Colvin, celebrating 30 years of “A Few Small Repairs”

September 29, 2026 2
Shawn Colvin has long established herself as one of the most captivating of singer-songwriters. She’s an accomplished guitar player, possessed of a fine voice, and she’s a storyteller of great talent. Her first album, Steady On, […]
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Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0
If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final track on Maya de Vitry’s 2026 release, but […]

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‘Pink Lemonade’ might sound like a flavour your pesky nephew might ‘chuck’ over you from his mechanical mod vape kit but is in fact the second album this year from Montana’s ‘dream-folk’ smoothie Chase McBride. Both music […]
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Video Premiere: Kendall Jane Meade “The Great Unknown”

November 13, 2025 0
In her new single, Kendall Jane Meade explores the conflict between feelings of relief and freedom with the uncertainty of an unknown future. Many will associate with such feelings, expressed with heart and sensitivity by Meade […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 121

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Temper those expectations. I may have mentioned this before and if I have forgive me. Three weeks ago i went into hospital to have a a knee arthroscopy and bone debriding. Yep, I know it sounds […]

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