Dream Syndicate

The Dream Syndicate wrestle back the right to release the full Medicine Show box set

July 14, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

In 1982, The Dream Syndicate started their own record company, Down There Records, to release their self-titled 4-song 12-inch EP that included the first versions of ‘When You Smile’ and ‘That’s What You Always Say.’ They went […]

The Americana Spirit of 24: Tim Martin

December 11, 2024 Tim Martin 0

From genre stretching to jangle, by way of Portsmouth, AUK’s Books Editor Tim Martin shared his pick of the Americana crop for 2024. I read back over my 2023 review of the year to remind myself […]

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 […]

Essentials: The top 10 ‘Paisley Underground’ albums

July 1, 2021 Guy Lincoln 6

Time was when we used to have ‘scenes’ to belong to. ‘Scenes’ we could relate to, which reflected who we thought we were, or at least who we wanted to be and ‘scenes’ that made us […]