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Sounds from beyond the Shed 228 “Don’t Panic”

March 23, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0
The last three weeks have been a struggle. The events in the Middle East have been horrific in their scale and scope. These are events of global significance, and if we didn’t know it then, we […]
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The latest AUK Podcast now available this week featuring the brilliant Sam Beam of Iron and Wine

March 13, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0
This week’s podcast sees Keith chatting with Sam Beam following the release of Iron and Wine’s latest Hen’s Teeth. It’s an illuminating insight into process and creativity with a genuine musical genius. There are also new […]
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Love – is it all there is?

February 13, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0
You know by now that we never miss a chance to have a themed Track special if we possibly can, and what could be more special than Valentine’s Day with all that it entails?  It offers […]
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The latest AUK podcast is now live featuring chat with Greazy Alice mainman Alex Pianovich

February 6, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0
This week’s podcast is a very Loose affair, featuring as it does four acts that are signed by those London connoisseurs of fine art, Loose Music. We have the new songs from Danny George Wilson, Brown […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed 218 “Meeting Your Heroes”

January 19, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0
As one of the news editors for AUK and, latterly, the Podcast creator, I very often have the good fortune to meet musicians that I greatly admire or respect. And I can happily report that, of […]

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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 […]
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Album Reviews

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 […]
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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 […]

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  • Jack Studer “Falling Forward”
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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]

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Preview: Bill Kirchen arrives in UK next week for Around the World in 50 Days tour

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Telecaster master Bill Kirchen is heading back to the UK from next week as part of his Around the World in 50 Days tour.  Via Australia and Holland, the ex-Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen […]
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The Twang Factor 3 Results: Lucy Grubb takes third place

February 15, 2023 0
The AUK judging panel have deliberated and have now given their verdict on the Top 3 in The Twang Factor 3. Starting today with third place we will reveal our top 3 selections over the course […]
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Caroline Spence + Roseanne Reid, Night & Day Café, Manchester, 24th October 2019

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Reviewing Caroline Spence’s recent ‘Mint Condition’ album for AUK, fellow writer Rick Bayles awarded it that rare accolade a 10/10 score, describing it as “flawless” and “an early contender for album of the year.” A glowing […]

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