Hiss Golden Messenger

Latest AUK Podcast now available featuring the mighty MC Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger

May 1, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0

This week’s podcast sees Keith discussing art and life, recording and touring, and much, much more with the wonderful MC Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger, whose new album I’m People comes out today. There are also […]

Video: Hiss Golden Messenger “Shaky Eyes” – Shedding old skin

April 13, 2026 Andrew Frolish 1

Shaky Eyes is the latest single from Hiss Golden Messenger, the North Carolina-based project of MC Taylor. Taylor’s gorgeous songcraft will be familiar to many readers, and this is a great example of his light tunefulness […]

The latest from Hiss Golden Messenger “I’m People” arrives on May Day

February 11, 2026 Richard Parkinson 0

Hiss Golden Messenger—the North Carolina-based project of MC Taylor— will release their new album, “I’m People”, on 1st May 2026 via Chrysalis Records. It lands three years after “Jump For Joy” (2023), of which AUK’s Keith […]

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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Joe Graham

November 2, 2023 Joe Graham 4

I puzzled over how to compile and preface this list for the best part of four months. I’m bad at choosing favourites, my mind tending toward blankness if asked on the spot. Suitably, when I started […]

Hiss Golden Messenger “Jump for Joy”

August 29, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0

MC Taylor’s reflection on his journey to the now is a blessed joy. Hiss Golden Messenger is MC Taylor’s mouthpiece that has, through song, unwound the strands of his life over the past 25 years including […]

Something for the weekend: Chicago “Just You ‘N’ Me”

June 26, 2026 2

Well that’s it from us for this week. It’s PAYDAY for many people and if you’re dreamimg of a future when you can actually go out the of house without a wall of unbearable heat hitting […]

Tift Merritt “Sugar”

June 26, 2026 0

Merritt returns with a beautifully sung meditation on love, work and the sweetness hidden in ordinary lives. After almost a decade away from releasing new albums, Tift Merritt returns with a collection of songs that feels […]

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