Icarus Phoenix

Latest AUK Podcast now available featuring Tony Dekker of Great Lake Swimmers and Dylan LeBlanc

May 15, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0

A double bill of interviews this week finds Keith talking to Tony Dekker of Great Lake Swimmers as they tour the UK and Dylan LeBlanc as he takes time out from recording a family project. There’s […]

Icarus Phoenix “On My Belly” – living life, despite it all

February 18, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0

On the latest single from Icarus Phoenix, Drew Danburry once more draws from real life for a song of resilience against the world and all the strains and pressures it can exert. He says of the […]

A year down the Tracks

December 22, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

What does a year in the Tracks really mean? On the one hand running the Tracks feature (and we’re sweeping up all other new music Tracks under that banner) means that there will be a lot […]

Mark Whitfield, AUK Editor’s top 20 songs of 2025: Part Two, 10-1

December 16, 2025 Mark Whitfield 2

Following on from yesterday’s piece where I counted down from 20-11, here are my top ten tracks from 2025 which for me form the heart of the website and why I still love editing it after […]

Mark Whitfield, AUK Editor’s top 20 songs of 2025: Part One, 20-11

December 15, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

It’s been another very full on year here in AUK Towers, a year in which we got bombarded with albums but more than that, by the four minute pieces of music which make them up – […]

RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
John Mellencamp - The Lonesome Jubilee
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Ashley McBryde - Wild (vinyl)
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Liz stringer ‘ first time really feeling’Melbourne song...
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RE: Versions!
@paul-villers Those versions keep coming
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RE: What are you watching at the moment?
Just binged "Legends" - a British drama on Netflix abou...
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Radio Paradise's Mellow Mix whilst on a bit of a drive
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Amy Grant The 6th of January (Yasgur’s Farm): time for ...
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The Lone Bellow - The Lone Bellow (vinyl)
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XTC - A Coat of Many Cupboards (excerpts...it's a 4 CD ...
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artwork for Still Life Painter album "A Month of Longest Days"

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"

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 […]

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 […]

Interviews

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 […]

Interviews

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 […]

Interviews

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 […]

Tracks

Old Sap “February Blues” – arriving this weekend

January 30, 2026 0

We find Old Sap looking to the future: if “January is a Monday morning, sick and hungover from the year’s weekending,” then February isn’t shaping up to be too much better. The americana tinged with folk […]

Videos

Video: Alice Di Micele “Reverse the Flow”

October 9, 2025 0

‘Reverse the Flow’ by Oregon-based songwriter Alice Di Micele is a heartfelt song, aiming to encourage positivity in challenging times. Offering hopefulness through her uplifting words, Di Micele is searching for perspective and seeking consensus: “Every […]

News

More on those new Jim Lauderdale albums

May 18, 2018 0

Following on from the track we posted yesterday, Yep Roc Records have announced the simultaneous release of two records from Nashville legend Jim Lauderdale on 3rd August – ‘Time Flies’ and ‘Jim Lauderdale and Roland White’. Both are “new,” but only the former was […]

Latest AUK Podcast now available featuring Tony Dekker of Great Lake Swimmers and Dylan LeBlanc

Icarus Phoenix “On My Belly” – living life, despite it all

A year down the Tracks

Mark Whitfield, AUK Editor’s top 20 songs of 2025: Part Two, 10-1

Mark Whitfield, AUK Editor’s top 20 songs of 2025: Part One, 20-11

Still Life Painter “A Month of Longest Days”

AUK’s Monthly EP Round-Up

Rob Burger “Valley People” – with Iron & Wine

Video: The Hanging Stars “All Your Yesterdays” – the now we always take for granted

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Little Feat after Lowell George