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I’m With Her announce second album “Wild and Clear and Blue”

March 6, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
Folk supergroup I’m With Her have announced their return this Spring with a stunning new record entitled “Wild and Clear and Blue”, which is out on 9th May 2025 via Rounder Records. The all-star trio comprises […]
Tracks

Let’s Get Some Stones For Avalon – A Year In Tracks

December 19, 2024 Jonathan Aird 2
Stones dot the landscape, marks of older times now gone but vaguely recalled or at least felt subconsciously, a connection made through elapsed years.  And the annual Track roundup is a bit like that as well […]
Videos

Video Review of the Year 2024

December 12, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0
Here we are again, hurtling towards another Christmas and another year.  Time flies when we’re having fun, so 2024 must have been a good one.  An election in the UK gave me some hope.  An election […]
News

Crossing stormy waters – I’m With Her return with UK and Netherlands dates

December 11, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
It’s not often that the supergroup tag is justified but when it comes to I’m With Her it’s right on the money. Each of the members is an A list performer in her own right – […]
News

Video: Aoife O’Donovan with the National Symphony Orchestra “All My Friends”

December 5, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0
Just wow.   Aoife O’Donovan’s rendition of “All My Friends” with the National Symphony Orchestra is simply gorgeous.  The Crooked Still and I’m With Her GRAMMY-winning vocalist delivers an incredible performance, full of heart and spellbinding, timeless […]

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Something for the weekend: Icarus Phoenix “Oh, The Joy of Life!”

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May 29, 2026 0

Live Review: Kiefer Sutherland + Colin Andrew, The Adrian Flux Waterfront, Norwich – 13th May 2026

Live Reviews
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Jim Keller releases first ever European vinyl retrospective called “Vinylly!”

News
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Interview: Ben Vaughn on being true to yourself and the joys of recording an album in your car

Interviews
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Paperback Riders: Johnny Rogan “The Byrds Timeless Flight” and “Timeless Flight Revisited”

Book Reviews
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Tracks

Something for the weekend: Icarus Phoenix “Oh, The Joy of Life!”

May 29, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this sweltering week, and we leave you dear reader with a brand new track from Drew Danburry’s Icarus Phoenix outfit which he describes as “an upbeat fiendishly danceable song about […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: Kiefer Sutherland + Colin Andrew, The Adrian Flux Waterfront, Norwich – 13th May 2026

May 29, 2026 0
When Kiefer Sutherland strode onto the stage at Norwich’s Adrian Flux Waterfront, the response from the packed crowd was immediate and thunderous. There was no slow build into the evening: Sutherland and his outstanding band launched […]
News

Jim Keller releases first ever European vinyl retrospective called “Vinylly!”

May 29, 2026 0
You see what he did there? Multi-talented singer, songwriter, and musician Jim Keller is to release Vinylly!, a collection of 14 of his finest songs from the last 15 years, and his first-ever European vinyl release. […]

  • Something for the weekend: Icarus Phoenix “Oh, The Joy of Life!”
  • Live Review: Kiefer Sutherland + Colin Andrew, The Adrian Flux Waterfront, Norwich – 13th May 2026
  • Jim Keller releases first ever European vinyl retrospective called “Vinylly!”
  • Interview: Ben Vaughn on being true to yourself and the joys of recording an album in your car
  • Paperback Riders: Johnny Rogan “The Byrds Timeless Flight” and “Timeless Flight Revisited”
  • Classic Clips: Richmond Fontaine and Amy Boone “Post to Wire” – Live in-store at Rough Trade East, London – 14th September 2011
  • Great Lake Swimmers “Caught Light”
  • Live Review: Sweet Sounds of the South, Riverside Studios, London – 16th May 2026
  • Lewis Pugh “Heretics & Heritage”
  • The latest AUK podcast is now available featuring Ella Spencer on Maverick and Jim Keller on Vinylly
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Interviews

Interview: Ben Vaughn on being true to yourself and the joys of recording an album in your car

May 29, 2026 0
To say Ben Vaughn has had an eclectic musical career would be a gross understatement. He grew up in the Philadelphia area, and his journey into music began when a kind uncle gave him a Duane […]
Interviews

Interview: Beau Jennings – In Tribute to Will Rogers and the Verdigris

May 27, 2026 0
If History was your favourite class in school, raise your digital hand. Only two? Come on, the subject is not that dull. Now pay attention. Today, we are going to learn about a river called the […]
Interviews

Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

May 26, 2026 3
Chicago-born and LA-based singer-songwriter Truman Sinclair will be a new name to many AUK readers, although the more observant of you will have noticed his song Joel Roberts topped my top tracks of 2025 list published […]

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Album Reviews

Richard Laviolette “Taking The Long Way Home” (You’ve Changed Records, 2017)

April 21, 2017 0
This is a good record – nicely written, songs performed well, you can’t really want for much more! Richard Laviolette is the real deal, a singer-songwriter from Ontario, Canada, Taking the Long Way Home is his […]
News

Austin’s Amy Annelle announces new album

June 5, 2024 2
Austin-based singer-songwriter Amy Annelle has announced her forthcoming LP, ‘The Toll,’ due out on 2nd August 2024, on the High Plains High label.  Annelle, who is emerging from a long battle with chronic illness, last released […]
Album Reviews

Blake Brown & The American Dust Choir – “Don’t Look Back”

November 29, 2022 0
Blake Brown & The American Dust Choir come up with a sophisticated and assured set of five Americana tunes. Insiders and die-hard Americana fans have probably heard Blake Brown’s name mentioned in the context of a […]

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