Kassi Valazza

Americana UK’s Top 20 albums of 2025: 10-2

December 22, 2025 Mark Whitfield 4

On Friday we began our countdown of our favourite albums of the year as collectively chosen by AUK’s writing team. We continue our countdown today from 10-2, and at 2pm we’ll be announcing our album of […]

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 […]

Oh no, I don’t recall, I can’t remember anything at all – Jon Aird’s 2025 year in review

December 12, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

What a year 2025 has been, musically speaking. There’s been a lot outside of music that has been…hmm, disappointing – one way or another. No one was really expecting the dawn of a new socialist utopia, […]

Edition number 3 of our AUK Weekly Podcast is now live with Patterson Hood interview

October 20, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 4

Well we’re on to week three already of our new AUK podcast and this week’s is a Patterson Hood special. On the eve of his visit to these shores, the podcast is built around a pair […]

Live Review: Kassi Valazza, St. Pancras Old Church, London – 26th June 2025

July 15, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Something of a change of venue from the supernatural references of The Slaughtered Lamb to the legendary St Pancras Old Church with its rock and roll connections going back over half a century to that famed […]

Phil Odgers & John Kettle “The War is Over – The Songs of Phil Ochs Vol 2”

August 6, 2026 0

A respectful and traditional tribute to Phil Ochs. Volume 1 of this collaborative tribute by Phil Odgers of The Men They Couldn’t Hang and John Kettle of Merry Hell was birthed in the dark days of […]

Freddy Trujillo takes flight with his fifth solo album

August 6, 2026 0

For more than two decades, Freddy Trujillo has quietly built one of the most distinctive careers in American roots music. Whether anchoring the rhythm section as bassist for Richmond Fontaine and The Delines or as a […]

Railcard “Unstable Neighbour” – let’s get on, ok?

August 6, 2026 0

Railcard’s new single from their debut album Two Steps At A Time, is a softly sunny power pop take on a common problem – the unreasonable person who lives next door. Tell us about it. Although […]

Americana UK’s Top 20 albums of 2025: 10-2

A year down the Tracks

Oh no, I don’t recall, I can’t remember anything at all – Jon Aird’s 2025 year in review

Edition number 3 of our AUK Weekly Podcast is now live with Patterson Hood interview

Live Review: Kassi Valazza, St. Pancras Old Church, London – 26th June 2025

Phil Odgers & John Kettle “The War is Over – The Songs of Phil Ochs Vol 2”

Freddy Trujillo takes flight with his fifth solo album

Railcard “Unstable Neighbour” – let’s get on, ok?

Video: Karl Bray “Marianne”

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits