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Latest AUK Podcast now available featuring exclusive Boia Festival line up news from organiser Steve Prior

April 10, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0
This week sees festival fever hit the Podcast with two examples to the fore and one to finish the show. First up, Keith chats to Steve Prior about the gorgeous and elemental Boia Festival in St […]
Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed 229 “Muscle Memory”

March 30, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 8
As we head into the Easter hols, I was thinking that it’s been nearly three years since I took off the gown and mortar and stopped trying to educate the minds of future generations. And yet […]
News

Deer Tick return to their roots with “Coin-O-Matic” out in June

March 17, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0
Providence’s Deer Tick have announced the 5th June release of their ninth studio album, Coin-O-Matic, via ATO. The LP is said to cast a bright light on a little-known facet of the American mythos: the hidden […]
Features

I am Night Witch: Swooping over the devastation just one more time – Jon Aird’s Review of 2023

December 21, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Surely this is it, no? After 13…soon to be 14…years of doing nothing this must be the last Christmas for a decade at least in which we’ll have to suffer the ineptitude of a government that […]
Features

Pump Up The Volume – A Year of Tracks

December 20, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Well, another year steams away down the Americana UK Tracks, and it’s therefore time to do the annual compare and contrast in which we find just which songs you enjoyed each month dear readers, and compare […]

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Interview: The Roseline play sweet music but you must accept the thorns

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Anniversary Cheers: The Mercy Brothers “Strange Adventure” celebrates 23 years

Anniversary Cheers
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Artwork for Laura Veirs album "Temple Songs"

Laura Veirs “Temple Songs”

Album Reviews
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After six years, Laura Cortese announces new studio album “Lucky Water”

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Artwork for StephenJacques album "Les Surfeurs De Santa Cruz"

Stephen Jacques “Les Surfeurs De Santa Cruz”

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Interviews

Interview: The Roseline play sweet music but you must accept the thorns

August 12, 2026 0
It’s no secret that americana music in all its colorful variations has been prevalent and in vogue for years now as countless bands and singer/songwriters from the last two decades have found success filtering their music […]
Anniversary Cheers

Anniversary Cheers: The Mercy Brothers “Strange Adventure” celebrates 23 years

August 12, 2026 0
Cupcakes & Muffins re-release The Mercy Brothers album; Barrence Whitfield and Michael Dinallo join together in a musical journey of discovery, and it sounds spectacular. We are not used to 23-year anniversaries; they come around but […]
Artwork for Laura Veirs album "Temple Songs"
Album Reviews

Laura Veirs “Temple Songs”

August 12, 2026 0
A welcome and successful return to songwriting and making records. Temple Songs, the 14th solo album released by Laura Veirs, represents something of a comeback for the Portland, Oregon-based singer-songwriter, author, music teacher, podcaster and visual […]

  • Interview: The Roseline play sweet music but you must accept the thorns
  • Anniversary Cheers: The Mercy Brothers “Strange Adventure” celebrates 23 years
  • Laura Veirs “Temple Songs”
  • After six years, Laura Cortese announces new studio album “Lucky Water”
  • Stephen Jacques “Les Surfeurs De Santa Cruz”
  • Isreal Nash saddles up to reimagine Sweetheart of the Rodeo
  • Live Review: Everette + Ned Swarbrick, 45 Vinyl Café, York – 5th August 2026
  • The Sound Gypsies “You Can Still Come Home” – home’s still there for ya’
  • Video: Carly Pearce, Molly Tuttle and Dan Tyminski “What If You Loved Me”
  • Interview: Frank Turner reflects on 20 years of Campfire Punkrock
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Interview: The Roseline play sweet music but you must accept the thorns

August 12, 2026 0
It’s no secret that americana music in all its colorful variations has been prevalent and in vogue for years now as countless bands and singer/songwriters from the last two decades have found success filtering their music […]
Interviews

Interview: Frank Turner reflects on 20 years of Campfire Punkrock

August 11, 2026 0
Remarkably, it is twenty years since Frank Turner released his first solo EP: Campfire Punkrock. The very title was both a statement of intent and a conscious identifier, defining his sound and the purpose of his […]
Interviews

Interview: Juana Everett is setting herself free

August 7, 2026 0
At once nostalgic travelogue, introspective head-trip, and rootsy showcase, Madrid-born Juana Everett’s second album should be her breakthrough record. Past Lives in California swims headfirst through the murky waters of transit, both literal and metaphysical. Bring […]

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Loudon Wainwright III “I’d Rather Lead A Band” (Thirty Tigers, 2020)

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There can’t be many albums reviewed on these pages that have name-checked Irving Berlin, Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong, so this may well be a first. ‘I’d Rather Lead a Band’, the latest offering from six-stringed […]
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Milk Carton Kids “Younger Years” – Listen

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What more superlatives can we pluck from our mighty chest of superlatives to apply to The Milk Carton Kids?  And what more can we say about the new album ‘All the things that I did and […]
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John Hewitt “Which Side Are You On?”

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Alberta troubadour’s latest – a one man band with masterful lyrics. John Hewitt is a truly committed musician – he’s been playing guitar since he was nine years old and he’s immersed himself in the roots […]

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