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EP Round Up

AUK’s Monthly EP Round-Up

May 21, 2026 Graeme Tait 0
Okay, I’m back. And before we turn our attention to this month’s wares, can I start by thanking my esteemed colleague Fred Arnold, who, in my absence, kindly picked up the baton for April’s edition of […]
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Ead Wood “Cash Mountain”

July 7, 2025 Andy Davidson 0
Alt Country’s sunnier climes. Ed Soles is the guitarist for Bristol band Langkamer and “Cash Mountain” is his first solo project. On its final track, ‘Solus Soles Weekend Blues’, he laments, “I wrote this song, but […]
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Live Review: Brown Horse + Pigeon Wigs + Ead Wood: Le Pub, Newport – 29th March 2024

April 9, 2024 Tim Martin 0
Brown Horse have attracted the sort of reviews most bands dream of for their debut album and consequently they drew a respectable Good Friday crowd to Newport.  Managing to cram all six of the band onto […]

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Still Life Painter “A Month of Longest Days”

May 21, 2026 0
Lowland lo-fi compositions of “love, loss and lap steel”. Phil Smith was part of Glasgow’s thriving indie-rock scene before embarking on his solo venture as Still Life Painter. In 2018, he took on bass duties for […]
Press photo for Jacob McCoy's EP "Deep Deep Water"
EP Round Up

AUK’s Monthly EP Round-Up

May 21, 2026 0
Okay, I’m back. And before we turn our attention to this month’s wares, can I start by thanking my esteemed colleague Fred Arnold, who, in my absence, kindly picked up the baton for April’s edition of […]
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Rob Burger “Valley People” – with Iron & Wine

May 21, 2026 0
Well, this is that rare thing, a doubly old new song: Valley People originally started life as an instrumental piece that Rob Burger wrote during a break from a demanding touring stretch. The piece began as […]

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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

May 20, 2026 0
There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]
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Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

May 19, 2026 2
Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]
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Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

May 18, 2026 1
At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

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