Broken Family Band

Something for the weekend: The Broken Family Band “Happy Days are Here Again”

October 24, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. It’s the hope that kills you and a week is a long time in politics, etc. but it’s looking pretty positive for Mamdani? With headlines like […]

AUK’s Back Pages No. 2

March 21, 2024 Paul Kerr 2

It’s 2005 and Americana UK is now in its fourth year. It’s the first full year that we distributed our monthly CD compilations to “Friends Of Americana UK,” i.e. those who had chipped in £5 a […]

Portland Brothers “First EP” (Sunday Mourning Records, 2019)

September 12, 2019 Linda Jameson 0

‘First EP’ is, um…, the first EP from Portland Brothers. However, this is not their first time making music together as band members Steven Adams and Timothy Victor are alumni of the The Broken Family Band […]

Curse of Lono “Severed” (Submarine Cat Records, 2017)

March 14, 2017 David Cowling 0

On first hearing this record without reading anything about it I thought that Steven Adams (Broken Family Band) had adopted a back to basics approach and formed a new band. It’s a thought that stuck with […]

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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”

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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 […]

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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 […]

Tracks

Wicca Phase Springs Eternal “Meet Me Anywhere” – all change

October 17, 2025 0

Wicca Phase Springs Eternal is the performance name for Pennsylvania-based singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Adam Andrzejewski, who has previously produced music in the not very Americana adjacent rap/electronic musical genre. And yet on the recently released album ‘Mossy […]

Live Reviews

Live Review: Our Man In The Field, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 28th April 2023

May 10, 2023 0

Driving to tonight’s concert I was reminded of how quickly the year is already passing. The seasons have definitely changed with the early evening sun still high enough in the sky to provide perfect daylight travelling […]

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Decemberists team up with Olivia Chaney for new album – Watch

May 9, 2017 2

This is quite exciting, what a sound (and what cover-art!) Paste report: “When The Decemberists were heading out on tour in 2015 behind their last record, “What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World”, Colin Meloy invited British folkie […]

Something for the weekend: The Broken Family Band “Happy Days are Here Again”

AUK’s Back Pages No. 2

Portland Brothers “First EP” (Sunday Mourning Records, 2019)

Curse of Lono “Severed” (Submarine Cat Records, 2017)

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”