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Oh no, I don’t recall, I can’t remember anything at all – Jon Aird’s 2025 year in review

December 12, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
What a year 2025 has been, musically speaking.  There’s been a lot outside of music that has been…hmm, disappointing – one way or another.  No one was really expecting the dawn of a new socialist utopia, […]
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Ann Liu Cannon “Letters” – better in the written word

October 3, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
On “Letters“, the somewhat rabbit-obsessed Ann Liu Cannon admits that “I’m better at letters, ‘cos letters can’t talk back, so neither can you, so I can stay here, hands on my ears, avoiding the truth.” Yeah, […]
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Live Review: Ann Liu Cannon + Esme White, The Lexington, London – 11th July 2025

July 29, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
So, here we are in The Lexington with a stage decorated with tarot cards and naïve art angel dolls, and with Ann Liu Cannon who is no mean keyboard and guitar player,  who writes literate and […]
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Live Review: Kassi Valazza + Ann Liu Cannon, The Slaughtered Lamb, London – 27th April 2023

May 18, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
God but The Slaughtered Lamb was busy – upstairs was rammed and the beats of the music being played by the DJ easily penetrated into the basement music venue, a small space, similarly at capacity for […]

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Thin Lear’s tales of death and loss sweetened by delectable pop melodies. New York-based Matt Longo, aka Thin Lear, grew up writing short stories, and that narrative style pervades his Many Disappeared album. Longo says he […]
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Live Review: Albert Lee, Union Chapel, London – 7th May 2026

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It turned out that Albert Lee’s show on 7th May was the first time he had been inside Union Chapel, and it’s certainly a larger venue than those he has been playing in London recently. By […]
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Life-affirming collection from Sufjan Stevens cohort. It’s incredibly distressing, but there have been some heartbreaking news stories recently of musicians experiencing life-changing ailments and the ensuing pain and anguish they experience trying to recover. This is […]

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Behind the Songs: Thin Lear

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The songs on Thin Lear’s sophomore album Many Disappeared are tied to each other not in their locale or their cast of characters, but instead in strange tragedies that have taken place, some many years ago. Current […]
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Interview: Judy Collins doesn’t look back, she looks forward

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“My home is in New York City, on the Upper West Side,” Judy Collins said, proudly holding up a painting by her sister of cats and dogs that resembles a Monet. When I mentioned travelling up […]
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Interview: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan discusses “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

May 5, 2026 0
Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]

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Diana Jones feat. Steve Earle, Richard Thompson & Peggy Seeger “We Believe You” – Listen

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Diana Jones has released a new single called ‘We Believe You’ taken from her forthcoming new album ‘Song To A Refugee’ which comes out on Proper Records on September 25th. The song features the help of Steve […]
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AUK Back Pages No. 11

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Well, Happy New Year to all here in 2025 as we delve into the then new year of 2008 with our latest peek into the AUK archives. As ever there’s a new cover design for the […]
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Classic Americana Albums: Mary Gauthier “Rifles & Rosary Beads”

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As this series would testify “classic” comes in many forms. Album or artist having been around for years would rank high on the list of qualifications. Mary Gauthier has certainly been around for a while with […]

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