Milk Carton Kids

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 […]

Americana Music Association announces nominees for 23rd Annual Honours and Awards

May 9, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

The AMAUK awards take place here in January each year but over in the US, the (not UK) Americana Music Association (AMA) has announced the nominees for their 23rd Annual Americana Honours & Awards. The awards […]

Live Review: The Milk Carton Kids + Jenny Owen Youngs, The Barbican, London – 19th January 2024

February 1, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

Five years to the day, Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale returned to The Barbican’s main hall, with their latest album ‘Only See the Moon’ which has garnered the kind of reviews that The Milk Carton Kids […]

Pump Up The Volume – A Year of Tracks

December 20, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Well, another year steams away down the Americana UK Tracks, and it’s therefore time to do the annual compare and contrast in which we find just which songs you enjoyed each month dear readers, and compare […]

Mark Whitfield, AUK Editor – My top 20 songs of 2023: Part One, 21-11

December 18, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

Johann Hari wrote a terrific book recently called “Stolen Focus” on why people can’t pay attention anymore, and it comes to mind when I reflect on the past 12 months having again failed to zone in […]