AUK writers look back at the last 12 months in americana, starting with our staff writer Peter Thompson. Is it that time already? The year has simply flown by – I feel like I’m still waiting […]
WBS – that’s Wainwright, Bird and Stills, and in this incidence the Stills is Chris Stills. The Bird is Andrew Bird, no exciting Byrd connection there but hey, you can’t have everything. And Rufus Wainwright doesn’t […]
Rufus Wainwright has announced ‘Folkocracy‘ will be released on June 2nd via BMG. This is the Canadian-American’s 11th album that comes after ‘Unfollow the Rules‘ was released in 2020. ‘Folkocracy‘ includes the new single ‘Down in […]
Andrew Bird delivers another minimalist anthem with the video for ‘Never Fall Apart’. Prominent Anishiaabe musician Keith Secola mimes Bird’s words on screen as he follows a long string of yarn from his telephone through the […]
Andrew Bird and Phoebe Bridgers reimagine an Emily Dickinson poem in ‘I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain’. Bird appears in grainy black and white, looking tense and inquisitive in a slim-fitting suit. Microscopic scenes of […]
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