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Video Premiere: Robert Rex Waller Jr “Gypsy Rider”

October 6, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

Here’s the excellent new single from I See Hawks in L.A. frontman, Robert Rex Waller Jr. We get to see Waller lending his characterful voice to ‘Gypsy Rider’, the classic Gene Clark song. Alongside Waller, Carla […]

I See Hawks In LA “On Our Way”

August 3, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

At turns familiar, jocular, thoughtful and experimental – another great album from one of Americana’s greatest bands. What can one say about I See Hawks in LA? It’s customary to reference their indebtedness to Grateful Dead […]

Something for the (long) weekend: I See Hawks in LA/Great Willow “Radio Keeps Me on the Ground”

May 7, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s a wrap from us for this week dear reader. Enjoy your “stay at home” VE Day celebrations if you’re doing anything, remembering of course that we don’t have to live on the borrowed symbolism […]

Maverick Festival 2019 adds further names to the line-up

March 8, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

We leave you this weekend dear reader with news of one of our favourite long-running americana festivals (one of the originals as it were) Maverick which takes place Friday 5th-Sunday 7th July at Easton Farm Park, […]

I See Hawks In LA, The Green Note, London, 19th July 2018

July 23, 2018 Jonathan Aird 2

I See Hawks In LA opened their extensive UK tour with this sold out performance at London’s Green Note, and were in fine form. Playing as a four piece and “acoustic” with Paul Lacques on lead […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy announces new album, new video – Watch

October 31, 2017 0

And it’s as oddly esoteric as you might imagine from his highness, amazing cover too. “The Pitch” reports: “Bonnie “Prince” Billy, aka Will Oldham, has announced a new album that covers Susanna’s 2007 LP Sonata Mix Dwarf […]

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Essentials: The Top Ten Will Kimbrough Songs

November 28, 2024 5

Will Kimbrough is the real deal. A masterful singer-songwriter who has been recording a wide range of music since his debut band The Bis-Quits recorded their 1993 album on John Prine’s Oh Boy label. That band […]

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Michaela Anne flies in for brief UK tour later this month

January 6, 2020 0

One of the standout performers at AmericanaFest in Nashville last September was Michaela Anne and AUK were fortunate enough to catch her on two separate occasions – once at the North Carolina Day Party and then […]

Video Premiere: Robert Rex Waller Jr “Gypsy Rider”

I See Hawks In LA “On Our Way”

Something for the (long) weekend: I See Hawks in LA/Great Willow “Radio Keeps Me on the Ground”

Maverick Festival 2019 adds further names to the line-up

I See Hawks In LA, The Green Note, London, 19th July 2018

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”