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 […]
The only thing I ever used to ask for as Christmas presents were albums. I can still remember the albums I got between the ages of 14- 19, so important to me they were in ensuring […]
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 […]
Sometimes these introductions write themselves – we know you know who Lucinda Williams, we know you know who Mavis Staples is, and we’d expect a good proportion of you to recognise ‘So Much Trouble In The […]
Octogenarian soul superstar releases as good an album as any in her career. What is there left to say about Mavis Staples? A member of her family’s close harmony gospel group since the late 40s, she […]
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