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The latest AUK podcast is now live featuring chat with Greazy Alice mainman Alex Pianovich

February 6, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0

This week’s podcast is a very Loose affair, featuring as it does four acts that are signed by those London connoisseurs of fine art, Loose Music. We have the new songs from Danny George Wilson, Brown […]

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Live Review: Brown Horse @The Blue Heart Festival, Alkmaar, NL – 11th April 2025

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Following the album release of ‘All The Right Weaknesses’ on April 5th Brown Horse took to Holland for three shows before a planned return to the UK for a series of dates supporting the album release. […]

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Kassi Valazza returns “From Newman Street” with a new album and live dates

February 7, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 1

The wonderful Kassi Valazza returns with an album titled  “From Newman Street” on May 2nd via Loose Music. Newman Street refers to the location of a friend’s house in Portland where Kassi found shelter and a […]

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Brown Horse announce highly anticipated new album and tour

January 21, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

Norfolk’s metaphysical country troubadours Brown Horse have announced details of their highly anticipated second album, “All The Right Weaknesses“, which will come out on April 4th 2025 on Loose Music. The group returned to Sickroom Studios […]

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It’s a hat trick! New album, single and UK tour dates announced for Danny and the Champions of the World

September 12, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Danny & the Champions of the World have announced the release of their new album “You Are Not A Stranger Here” on 18th October 2024 via Loose. The band has also announced a major UK tour […]

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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

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From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

February 9, 2026 0

Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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Interview: Elles Bailey on collaboration, her voice, and not taking her story away

February 3, 2026 0

When one says award-winning artist about a singer, Elles Bailey would certainly fall into this category, having been named to an impressive list, including: UK Americana Live Act of the Year, UK Blues Artist of the […]

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AUK’s Top Ten Americana Albums Ever: Paul Kerr

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At AUK we are now well into our quest to find the ‘Top 10 Americana Albums Ever’. Over the coming weeks and months each AUK writer will in turn, present their own personal selections. When each […]

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This is absolutely lovely. “Sun to My Moon” is the second studio album from Lucy Kitchen, a journey spanning fragile stripped back confessionals to Americana, to psychedelic-tinged harmony laden anthems. It’s out September 1st and this […]

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Keeping music alive everywhere – MVT Annual Report launched

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The opulent Raphael Court at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum was the setting for the Music Venue Trust (MVT)’s launch of its 2025 Annual Report on the state of the grassroots music venues in the UK. […]

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