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Live Review: The Long Road Festival, Stanford Hall, Leicestershire – Friday 23rd August 2024

September 9, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

The Long Road festival is now a fixture in the calendar of fans of country and americana music with its welcoming family friendly atmosphere and its broad range of established and upcoming acts across six stages. […]

Artwork for American Aquarium album "The Fear of Standing Still"

American Aquarium “The Fear of Standing Still”

August 16, 2024 Adrian Dzialdowski 3

Visceral personal narrative and social comment in folk-rock setting. American Aquarium CDs sit next to those of the Drive by Truckers and Jason Isbell in this reviewer’s collection. Isbell and DBT stalwart Patterson Hood would doubtless […]

Preview: The Long Road Festival – 23rd-25th August 2024

August 12, 2024 Richard Parkinson 1

Following 2023’s sell-out, The Long Road festival is returning to the picturesque grounds of Stanford Hall in Leicestershire over the August bank holiday weekend (23rd-25th August). The Long Road has a track record of putting on […]

Video: American Aquarium “Cherokee Purples”

June 11, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

With this week’s videos, we’re celebrating the great summer festivals that we have to look forward to. Following yesterday’s entry for Black Deer, today’s video from American Aquarium takes us to The Long Road Festival from […]

American Aquarium “Crier” A blazing take down of toxic masculinity

May 29, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0

American Aquarium bring the heat with their new single, ‘Crier’. A blazing takedown of toxic masculinity, this is the first single from their new Shooter Jennings-produced collection ‘The Fear of Standing Still’. “It’s a song about […]

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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

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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

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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 […]

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AUK Podcast 4 featuring Evan Westfall (Caamp) is now live

October 27, 2025 0

The latest AUK Podcast features an interview with multi-instrumentalist and founder member of Caamp, Evan Westfall. We talk Canada, touring songwriting, and being in a band. There are also new tracks from Horsebath, The Gasoline Gypsies, […]

Album Reviews

Ruston Kelly “Pale, Through the Window”

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Amid despair Ruston Kelly finds joy. Few artists so consistently bare their souls with such blunt honestly as Ruston Kelly. Repeatedly he seeks some kind of release from calamitous experiences ranging from addiction to failed relationship […]

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The Other Side of Me: Lyndon Bolton tunes the Television to ‘Marquee Moon’

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Unlike my multi-faceted fellow scribes I’ve never really been into an artist, far less an entire genre, long enough to qualify as a “side” completely independent of what can be traced quite easily to what we […]

Live Review: The Long Road Festival, Stanford Hall, Leicestershire – Friday 23rd August 2024

American Aquarium “The Fear of Standing Still”

Preview: The Long Road Festival – 23rd-25th August 2024

Video: American Aquarium “Cherokee Purples”

American Aquarium “Crier” A blazing take down of toxic masculinity

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”