Katherine Priddy

Suzanne Vega returns with more dates around festival appearances

March 6, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0

Singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega continues her successful Flying with Angels Tour, bringing the career-spanning set to new stops in Salisbury, Folkestone, Halifax, and Aylesbury, where she will be joined on stage by her longtime guitarist, Gerry Leonard […]

Our new supporters playlist comes out today – win a pair of weekend tickets to see Katherine Priddy live

March 6, 2026 Mark Whitfield 0

If you’re not subscribing to our monthly supporters newsletter you’ll be missing out on our exclusive supporters playlist of the best new Americana we’ve heard over the last month which this month includes new tracks by […]

The latest AUK podcast is available now featuring Katherine Priddy and Band of Heathens

February 20, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0

Another busy week for Keith as he chats to the wonderful Katherine Priddy on the eve of the release of her new album These Frightening Machines and to Gordy Quist and Ed Jurdi from Band of […]

Video: Katherine Priddy “Frightening Machines” – trapped in a malfunctioning, self-sabotaging machine

January 22, 2026 Andrew Frolish 0

Katherine Priddy’s recent single, ‘Frightening Machines’, is achingly gorgeous. Equally as haunting and beautiful as her vocal performance are Priddy’s intimate words, which explore her relationship with herself: “Strip down this engine for parts // I […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 218 “Meeting Your Heroes”

January 19, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0

As one of the news editors for AUK and, latterly, the Podcast creator, I very often have the good fortune to meet musicians that I greatly admire or respect. And I can happily report that, of […]

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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 […]

AUK Mini-Gigs

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Jaime Wyatt

October 9, 2020 1

In these strange times, gigs are rare and precious. To spread a little hope and joy, we have been bringing you, dear reader, occasional exclusive mini-gigs to sustain you until live music returns in full. Some […]

Videos

Video: Eve Adams “Nowhere Now”

June 19, 2025 0

Filmed in the dry and dusty desert of the American Southwest, the new video from Eve Adams is brilliantly atmospheric. Those big skies and vast landscapes evoke epic tales of life: uncompromising, isolating, dramatic stories of […]

Album Reviews

The Lowlies “The Lowlies”

November 8, 2023 0

Western New York acoustic folk duo The Lowlies’ debut album features masterful songwriting. The Lowlies are the husband and wife duo of Caleb and Carolyn Spaulding. They have been making music together since the mid-2010s, at […]

Suzanne Vega returns with more dates around festival appearances

Our new supporters playlist comes out today – win a pair of weekend tickets to see Katherine Priddy live

The latest AUK podcast is available now featuring Katherine Priddy and Band of Heathens

Video: Katherine Priddy “Frightening Machines” – trapped in a malfunctioning, self-sabotaging machine

Sounds from beyond the Shed 218 “Meeting Your Heroes”

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”