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Live Review: The Life & Songs of Martin Carthy, EartH (Theatre), London – 27th September 2025

October 8, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

A first visit to EartH, the Hackney multi-venue performance space – and specifically a gig in the EartH Theatre venue, which is a converted and restored Art Deco cinema space. This celebration of the life and […]

Various Artists “Life’s What You Make It”

May 12, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

Hit and Miss affair on triple album of covers. Over the last couple of years we’ve seen a significant increase in the “covers album” and whilst there have been some outstanding examples, Emma Swift’s take on […]

Interview: Emily Barker on her new album and working 16 hour days

August 26, 2020 Martin Johnson 0

Emily Barker is an Australian singer-songwriter who has developed her career in the UK. She was given the impetus to make music her full-time career when her song ‘Nostalgia’ became the theme song for the BBC […]

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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 […]

Tracks

Lando Manning “Blue Silk Ribbons” – carrying on traditions

September 24, 2025 0

Enigmatic (or possibly just fast-moving) London folk artist Lando Manning self-describes the music on his upcoming EP “Fragments” – which includes a psych garage interpretation of Vashti Bunyan, a regendered traditional ballad and original compositions on […]

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Martha Tilston announces UK dates, new video – Watch

March 1, 2017 0

Martha Tilston, whose new double A-side we recently featured, has announced details of her new album “Nomad” which will be released via Squiggly Records on May 12th, which will include “expansive electric guitar, slide guitar, rolling […]

Interviews

Interview: Exploring Fate, Music, and the Cosmic Unknown with Ben Schneider of Lord Huron

October 13, 2025 2

Americana UK recently sat down with Ben Schneider, the creative force and lead singer of Lord Huron, before their headline show at London’s Hammersmith Apollo. Known for weaving cinematic landscapes into his music, Schneider’s work on […]

Live Review: The Life & Songs of Martin Carthy, EartH (Theatre), London – 27th September 2025

Various Artists “Life’s What You Make It”

Interview: Emily Barker on her new album and working 16 hour days

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”