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James Yorkston teams up with Swedish stars for “Songs For Nina and Johanna”

June 11, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

Scottish singer-songwriter James Yorkston has announced his latest album, “Songs for Nina and Johanna”, will be released via Domino on 22nd August 2025. The album is his sixteenth on Domino and his third to be recorded […]

Essentials: The Top 10 First Aid Kit Songs

May 15, 2025 Fiona Golden 4

As we certainly know at AUK, sometimes people far, far away from the United States naturally flourish in Americana. Anyone acquainted with the niche and wildly underrated subgenre of Scandifolk must know First Aid Kit. Practically […]

Something for the weekend: First Aid Kit “Everybody’s Got to Learn”

July 21, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

That’s it from us for another week and we leave you dear reader with a previously unreleased track from the new expanded version of Swedish indie-folksters First Aid Kit’s most recent album from 2022, this time […]

Classic Clips: Conor Oberst, First Aid Kit and James Felice “Lua” Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, 6 October 2017

June 9, 2023 Richard Parkinson 0

One of the upsides of festivals is the opportunities presented for collaboration. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is a three-day festival held in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on the first weekend in October. For a number of […]

Classic Clip: First Aid Kit “Emmylou” – Live at the Polar Music Awards, 2015

March 17, 2023 Jonathan Smith 0

Emmylou Harris was in Stockholm in 2015, as the latest recipient for the Polar Music Prize, instigated by Stig Anderson, manager and collaborator with ABBA. That alone was a high achievement, placing her in a pantheon […]

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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 […]

Americana Roots

Americana Roots: The Ladles

April 9, 2021 0

Americana Roots highlights the freshest and most original Americana and bluegrass from across the pond in the US. It covers everything from brand-new, just out of the box bands, to cult favourites, to established acts who […]

Album Reviews

Brigitte DeMeyer & Will Kimbrough “Mockingbird Soul” (BDM Music, 2017)

January 30, 2017 0

Despite the fact that Brigitte DeMeyer and Will Kimbrough have been working together for six years and collaborated on two albums Mockingbird Soul is their first official release as a duo. There are lots of influences […]

Album Reviews

My Darling Clementine “Still Testifying” (Continental Song City, 2017)

June 19, 2017 0

The thought of working with our sweet and loving partner may be enough to send many of us quivering into the corner (or perhaps the pub) but that’s exactly what husband & wife team Michael Weston King and Lou […]

James Yorkston teams up with Swedish stars for “Songs For Nina and Johanna”

Essentials: The Top 10 First Aid Kit Songs

Something for the weekend: First Aid Kit “Everybody’s Got to Learn”

Classic Clips: Conor Oberst, First Aid Kit and James Felice “Lua” Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, 6 October 2017

Classic Clip: First Aid Kit “Emmylou” – Live at the Polar Music Awards, 2015

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”