Peter Stampfel

AUK Shortcuts: Kirsten Adamson, Garrett Hendricks, Levi Foster, Austin Stambaugh, Jack Schneider, The Shallow Riverbanks, Elizabeth & Jameson and Peter Stampfel

October 20, 2025 Paul Kerr 0

Our latest Short Cuts, a monthly feature where AUK casts a brief eye and ear on several albums we’ve received recently, which just didn’t make the cut for a full review. Like most major music websites, […]

Peter Stampfel “Cognitive Behavioural Therapy” – let’s look at it this way

September 12, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Peter Stampfel – he of the Fugs and the Holy Modal Rounders – has a new and, hey no real surprise, rather unusual new album coming out. It’s called “Song Shards: Soul Jingles, Stoic Jingles, Vintage […]

The Song Remains: Michael Hurley (1941- 2025)

April 9, 2025 Paul Kerr 1

The passing of Michael Hurley who died on April 1st aged 83 closes the chapter on a remarkable musician. AUK wrote of him a while back that he “ploughed his own unique furrow of pastoral, homespun […]

Interview : One Hundred Years Of Songitude with Peter Stampfel

January 20, 2021 Paul Kerr 0

The legendary Peter Stampfel talks to AUK about his magnum opus, 100 songs plucked from all 100 years of the 20th Century As one-half of the legendary Holy Modal Rounders, Peter Stampfel was one of the […]

The Song Remains: Steve Weber 1943-2020

April 7, 2020 Paul Kerr 0

The death of Steve Weber, one half of the fabled Holy Modal Rounders, progenitors of underground then psychedelic and eventually freak-folk has, for the most part gone unnoticed. The Rounders, a guitar, banjo and fiddle duo […]