Drew Danburry

Video Premiere: Icarus Phoenix “Different Languages”

March 6, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

We are delighted to premiere the latest single from Drew Danburry’s band Icarus Phoenix. In ‘Different Languages’, Danburry’s thoughtful words feel heartfelt and profound: “Words can build and destroy but some building is destruction,” especially when delivered […]

Video: Icarus Phoenix “Nostalgia for Arannis Morissette, the Half-Elf Bard”

February 29, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0

Icarus Phoenix tap artist Cat Palmer to star in their new video for ‘Nostalgia for Arannis Morissette, the Half-Elf Bard’. As Drew Danburry’s track tells the tale of being inspired by other songwriters, taking on the […]

Something for the weekend: For all the Girls “Caroline” featuring Icarus Phoenix

January 26, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another weekend dear reader. We are heading for our annual writers’ get together to (drum roll) Buxton this year so do come and say hello if you happen to be […]

Something for the weekend: Icarus Phoenix “Gild (For J.W. Teller)”

March 25, 2022 Mark Whitfield 0

That’s it for another week from us dear reader and we leave you with a new track from the forthcoming third album from Drew Danburry’s Icarus Phoenix project ‘Sometimes Our Shadow Gets in the Way’. We’ve […]

Mark Whitfield, AUK Editor: My top 10 tracks of 2021

December 23, 2021 Mark Whitfield 1

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 week […]

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Chris Knight - Chris Knight
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Hurray for the Riff Raff - Live Forever
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Old 97s - Too Far to Care
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R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
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Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac
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Wilco - summerteeth
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Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun
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Rolling Stones - Some Girls
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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 […]

AUK Mini-Gigs

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Roses & Revolutions

November 5, 2021 0

Over the last couple of years, we have been privileged to share a series of terrific mini-gig performances with our readers. Seeing these great artists connecting with music-lovers, from their home to ours, has been especially […]

Features

More People Really Should Know About: Doug Seegers

November 11, 2025 1

Typing “Doug Seegers” into the AUK search brought up only two mentions, both just listed his name among many others in a festival announcement. That is possibly because he would be classified as country, but Seegers […]

Book Reviews

Paperback Riders: Willy Vlautin’s short audio fiction

December 9, 2024 0

Willy Vlautin has now produced three spoken word albums. Some of them connected to his novels, some of them standalone. As the first has a festive theme, and is narrated by Vlautin, who has also narrated […]

Video Premiere: Icarus Phoenix “Different Languages”

Video: Icarus Phoenix “Nostalgia for Arannis Morissette, the Half-Elf Bard”

Something for the weekend: For all the Girls “Caroline” featuring Icarus Phoenix

Something for the weekend: Icarus Phoenix “Gild (For J.W. Teller)”

Mark Whitfield, AUK Editor: My top 10 tracks of 2021

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”