Videos
Video: The Doohickeys “Santa Needs a Beer”
So this is it – my final video post of the year before AUK puts its collective feet up for Christmas. It had to be a new festive song, so here is Los Angeles-based duo The […]
News
Americana UK’s album of 2025 is The Delines “Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom”
It might have seemed that this choice was on the cards all along, Americana UK has hardly hidden its collective love for The Delines under a bushel – but then look at the rest of the […]
Features
Americana UK’s Top 20 albums of 2025: 10-2
On Friday we began our countdown of our favourite albums of the year as collectively chosen by AUK’s writing team. We continue our countdown today from 10-2, and at 2pm we’ll be announcing our album of […]
Features
For the sake of the song: Corinne West “Trouble No More”
For someone so talented, it is a mystery that the truly excellent Corinne West has largely flown under the radar, and this despite getting rave reviews for her albums, a sublime mix of folk, country, and […]
Columns
Sounds from beyond the Shed 215 “Christmas Vinyl”
The only thing I ever used to ask for as Christmas presents were albums. I can still remember the albums I got between the ages of 14- 19, so important to me they were in ensuring […]
Tracks
A year down the Tracks
What does a year in the Tracks really mean? On the one hand running the Tracks feature (and we’re sweeping up all other new music Tracks under that banner) means that there will be a lot […]
So this is it – my final video post of the year before AUK puts its collective feet up for Christmas. It had to be a new festive song, so here is Los Angeles-based duo [...]- What does a year in the Tracks really mean? On the one hand running the Tracks feature (and we’re sweeping up all other new music Tracks under that banner) means that there will be a [...]
- Fans of Elles Bailey got a first experience of her new album at an intimate gig at Rough Trade in Bristol in November. As a follow-up, Bailey has released a new single, ‘Better Days’, which [...]
- Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. We’ll be back on Monday where we announce our writers’ top 10 albums of 2025 and then our final day of posting for the year [...]
- And here we are, the very last Jingle Bells Friday of the season – how did it come around so soon and with the Christmas song bag still well stuffed? It’s always the way, isn’t [...]
Cheryl Main:
Misspelling an artists name is not a great sign (find the random v), but the list is pretty solid overall.
Mike Ritchie:
Got six of these - only two will be in my top 10.
Jonathan Smith:
Thanks Nigel, much appreciated. So pleased there’s still so many Northern Exposure stalwarts out there
