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Interview: Alan Fletcher on the point of Australian Americana

February 21, 2023 Martin Johnson 2

You may know him as Dr Karl Kennedy but Alan Fletcher is a serious singer-songwriter. Releasing your first full solo album at the age of 65 may seem a strange career move for an up-and-coming Aussie […]

Lachlan Bryan & the Wildes head to UK for ripper dates

May 17, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Aussie alt-country/Americana outfit Lachlan Bryan & The Wildes have announced their return to the UK next month including an appearance at Maverick Festival; along with the European release of their fourth album ‘Some Girls (Quite) Like Country Music’ on June […]

Maverick Festival add further names to 2018 line-up

March 14, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Following their 10th anniversary last year, the UK’s first major Americana festival has announced further additions to its 2018 line up, including an act who’ve been pitched as “the most talked about band in Memphis” Southern Avenue, […]

Lachlan Bryan & The Wildes set to make their first UK appearances.

May 18, 2017 Paul Kerr 0

One of Australia’s premier Americana artists (if that isn’t a contradiction) have lined up their first UK appearances this June. Lachlan Bryan & The Wildes have pioneered the alt-country and Americana music movement in Australia. The […]

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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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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Bob Sumner

February 5, 2025 0

“Some Place to Rest Easy” is the title of the second solo album released by Bob Sumner since he and his brother Brian came to an agreement that hoofing it down different musical pathways would be […]

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Video: Dug “Have At It” – a distinct and original take on contemporary folk

August 8, 2025 0

Comprised of Californian multi-instrumentalist Jonny Pickett and Scottish-American artist Lorkin O’Reilly, whose solo work has quietly generated over 26 million Spotify streams, DUG have firmly established themselves as one of the most unique and relatable forces […]

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Track Premiere: Colebrook Road “Mountain”

May 17, 2021 0

Colebrook Road are guitarist, lead vocalist, and main songwriter Jesse Eisenbise, banjoist, dobroist, and bass vocalist Mark Rast, mandolinist Wade Yankey, fiddler and baritone vocalist Joe McAnulty and bassist and tenor vocalist Jeff Campbell. Between them […]

Lachlan Bryan & The Wildes

Interview: Alan Fletcher on the point of Australian Americana

Lachlan Bryan & the Wildes head to UK for ripper dates

Maverick Festival add further names to 2018 line-up

Lachlan Bryan & The Wildes set to make their first UK appearances.

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”