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Oh no, I don’t recall, I can’t remember anything at all – Jon Aird’s 2025 year in review

December 12, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
What a year 2025 has been, musically speaking.  There’s been a lot outside of music that has been…hmm, disappointing – one way or another.  No one was really expecting the dawn of a new socialist utopia, […]
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Live Review: Mercury Rev + Nicolai Dunger, Islington Assembly Hall, London – 19th March 2025

March 27, 2025 Jonathan Aird 2
This was the second of two nights in London (they’d played Earth previously) for Mercury Rev, who seem to have decided that Europe is the place to be, as they were here at the end of […]
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I picked up the loaded dice – Jon Aird’s 2024 year in review

December 16, 2024 Jonathan Aird 1
Has this year actually finished up already?  Ignoring everything that happened for good and for ill out in the greater world, it has been a crazy musical ride – so many fantastic albums, so many amazing […]
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Live Review: Mercury Rev + Nina Savary, The Junction, Cambridge, 8th November 2024

November 21, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
Mercury Rev are out touring their excellent new album “Born Horses” which raises all sorts of questions – the new album has a refreshed musical palette to support the new songs delivered by Jonathan Donahue in […]
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Mercury Rev “Born Horses”

July 4, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
Once more The Rev evolve. I am here, this time, to persuade you – and let’s start by acknowledging that rumour is correct, this new album from Mercury Rev is quite unlike their previous releases. Not […]

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For The Sake Of The Song: Joni Mitchell “Woodstock”

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The Woodstock festival held in 1969 at Yasgur’s farm, Bethel, New York, is one of those truly emblematic moments in the history of contemporary music, and indeed in the birth of americana. And of course it’s […]
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Interview: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan discusses “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

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Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]
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Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

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Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

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David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]

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Black Deer Festival Interview: The Delines discuss the touring life and new music on the way

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Award-winning and critically acclaimed, The Delines is a band that remains a great favourite amongst AUK’s readers and writers.  Their soulful Americana and distinctive sound are perfect for delivering Willy Vlautin’s cinematic narratives about the lost […]
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Pornographer and bird hybrid Frontperson announce debut album

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Frontperson, the new project from Kathryn Calder (vocalist and keyboardist for The New Pornographers) and Mark Andrew Hamilton (who has released six albums as the excellent Woodpigeon), have announced details of their debut album ‘Frontrunner’ which will come out on 21st […]
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Video Premiere: Frank Viele “Mountains We Can Climb”

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Check out the new video from Frank Viele, recent winner of Act of the Year at the New England Music Awards 2023.  The first Connecticut-artist to receive this honour, Viele had a busy 2023, releasing four […]

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