Bon Iver

Interview: Darling West’s Mari and Tor Egil Kreken discuss “Cosmos” and nordicana

June 20, 2023 Martin Johnson 0

Norwegians love the banjo and bring a natural sense of melancholy to their music. Many people enjoyed the 2000 film ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou’, but in Norway, it also helped kickstarted the nordicana genre when […]

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: The Best of the Rest

October 6, 2022 Clint West 0

The votes have been cast and counted and next week we will begin the run-down of the Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century as chosen by our writers. Number 10 will be revealed on […]

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums Of The 21st Century: Ljubinko Zivkovic

June 16, 2022 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

How do you compile any list? Or in this specific case, how do you compile a list of the top 10 americana albums of the 21st century – a century when americana started getting more and […]

Bon Iver announce new record, due next month – Listen

July 16, 2019 Mark Whitfield 2

Bon Iver have announced details of their fourth album which will be called “i,i” (it sounds Scouse to us) and is coming out on August 30th via Jagjaguwar. The band posted on their site: “Recording over […]

Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver lay into Bruno Mars

January 30, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Well it’s always nice on a Tuesday morning to see bands falling out. Stereogum report: “Beardy folk men are apparently not big Bruno Mars fans. Earlier today, Justin Vernon of Bon Iver responded to Mars’ surprising Album Of The […]

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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

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

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

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

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

March 4, 2026 2

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 […]

News

Country music’s political divide rears its head again over crowd safety

August 17, 2021 0

“I don’t know any artists in the Americana world who are openly anti-vax.” The Guardian has published a really interesting piece today entitled “We aren’t all dumb hillbillies” about the backlash which Jason Isbell has experienced […]

Classic Clips

Classic Clips: Tony Joe White “Polk Salad Annie” Austin, 1980

May 16, 2025 0

Tony Joe White was a firm favourite artist from the first time I saw him, appearing at the BBC Paris Theatre in Lower Regent Street, London, recording a set for Radio One’s ‘In Concert’ series back […]

Album Reviews

Mossy Kilcher “Northwind Calling” (Tompkins Square, 2020)

July 14, 2020 0

Over the last few years labels like Light in the Attic, Finders Keepers and Tompkins Square have created a small industry based around the re-issue of long lost, forgotten and overlooked recordings by usually equally obscure […]

Interview: Darling West’s Mari and Tor Egil Kreken discuss “Cosmos” and nordicana

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: The Best of the Rest

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums Of The 21st Century: Ljubinko Zivkovic

Bon Iver announce new record, due next month – Listen

Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver lay into Bruno Mars

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”