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Thought For The Day
Don’t worry, we haven’t decided to instigate a short religious interlude for the site. Rather this is a moment to pause and reflect on what sort of country we want to live in. One where […]
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Record Store Day – the Americana UK guide to the releases
It’s that time again where the format fiends get excited about queueing at 5 am (or earlier) to be among the few to own this year’s exclusively released records. Record Store Day started in 2007 […]
AUK's Chain Gang
AUK’s Chain Gang: Billy Bragg & Joe Henry “In the Pines”
From last week’s Chain Gang, Birds of Chicago, comes not one but two new links. The first one is avian, from ‘Birds’ to ‘Eagle,’ while the second remains the city of Chicago but more specifically, […]
Features
Mark Whitfield, AUK Editor: My top 10 tracks of 2021
Every year in recent times I seem to listen to fewer and fewer whole albums – it’s often a time issue, as creating the monthly supporters’ compilations along with trawling through dozens of submissions every […]
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Our top ten americana albums of 2021 – Part One
Well it’s been a long year by anyone’s standards but as a form of group therapy, we decided for the first time in years to try and come up with a list of our favourite […]