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Small Venue Heroes: The Carrivick Sisters

June 14, 2022 Tim Martin 1

The pressures of touring are hard enough in ‘normal’ times, but with added Covid it has been doubly hard for musicians playing any size of venue. After I reviewed their show in Bristol last October, the […]

Jake Bugg announced as latest act joining Black Deer Festival 2022

November 25, 2021 Emily Dongray 0

Black Deer Festival organisers have announced more acts for their three-day festival. The event will return to Erridge Park, Kent, in June 2022 after two pandemic-related postponements. New additions to the 2022 lineup include: Pokey LaFarge, […]

Live Review: Midnight Skyracer, St Georges Bristol – 14th October 2021

November 2, 2021 Tim Martin 1

Over the last year or so it was inevitable that some great music would slip under the radar. In 2018 AUK’s Jeremy Searle predicted great things for Midnight Skyracer, and then the trail went cold. Following […]

Cam Penner + Midnight Skyracer @Celtic Connections, Royal Concert Hall New Auditorium, Glasgow, 18th January 2020

January 23, 2020 Paul Kerr 0

AUK’s first jaunt at 2020’s Celtic Connections took us to the grand concert hall in the city centre to see a one off show by Canadian Cam Penner and his erstwhile sidekick Jon Wood. It’s a […]

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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 […]

Album Reviews

Davey Woodward and the Winter Orphans “Davey Woodward and the Winter Orphans” (Tapete, 2018)

October 3, 2018 0

A firm favourite of the late great John Peel and championed by 6 Music, Davey Woodward has been a prolific songwriter for decades with bands like The Brilliant Corners, The Experimental Pop Band and Karen. Most […]

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Jarrod Dickenson announces new EP and UK tour dates

January 17, 2019 0

Honey-voiced crooner, Jarrod Dickenson, will bring his own brand of Americana to the UK and Ireland later this month. Dickenson has toured assiduously throughout Europe and the UK in recent years, including festival appearances at Glastonbury, […]

Videos

Video Premiere: Jared McCloud “Tramp Like Me”

September 9, 2024 0

Here’s the latest release from Portland-based singer-songwriter Jared McCloud. ‘Tramp Like Me’ rocks with upbeat rhythms and bright, tuneful guitar that builds towards the song’s conclusion. McCloud’s compelling vocal performance is at the heart of the […]

Small Venue Heroes: The Carrivick Sisters

Jake Bugg announced as latest act joining Black Deer Festival 2022

Live Review: Midnight Skyracer, St Georges Bristol – 14th October 2021

Cam Penner + Midnight Skyracer @Celtic Connections, Royal Concert Hall New Auditorium, Glasgow, 18th January 2020

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”