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A Night to Remember – End of the Road Festival 2010, Saturday afternoon Garden Stage

March 30, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 0

No sooner have we created a format than troublesome writers begin to undermine and twist the brief. This night to remember was no night at all but a glorious, sun-splashed, hazy afternoon at the fag […]

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Features

Ten great “Los Angeles” songs

March 30, 2020 Jonathan Aird 5

Los Angeles seems like some kind of paradise from its iconic images and its magnetic pull on many who work in the visual and audio arts. Yet in song it can seem a much bleaker […]

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Americana acts cover David Berman songs in tribute – Watch

August 12, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

With thanks to BrooklynVegan for highlighting this – tributes are still coming in for David Berman who died last week (we now know sadly from suicide) and some artists have covered songs from Silver Jews […]

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Watch Phosphorescent perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

December 7, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

The exclamation being the show’s, not our surprise. Leaving you this weekend dear reader with a clip rather than a news story.  Phosphorescent aka singer-songwriter Matthew Houck and band appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Monday to play ‘New Birth in […]

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Phosphorescent new album and UK dates, October – Listen

July 31, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Phosphorescent have announced details of a new album ‘C’est La Vie’ which will be released on October 5th in the UK via Dead Oceans. The album was produced by the band’s Matthew Houck and recorded at […]

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High Coast “Mind Pictures”

April 20, 2021 0

Scandinavian duo reflect on love and drinking and making one’s own decisions. High Coast are a Swedish duo of Daniel Walke on gently finger-picked guitar and August Wegestål on a lap steel that can’t help […]

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Chantal Acda “Saturday Moon”

April 20, 2021 0

Dreamy indie-folk with occasional highlights from Dutch singer-songwriter. Chantal Acda may not be a particularly familiar name to most AUK readers, but this record is actually the Dutch singer-songwriter’s fourth solo album on top of […]

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Riley Moore “Sweet Boy” EP

April 19, 2021 0

Moore goes back to nature and to create a bucolic beauty of an EP. Riley Moore’s ‘Sweet Boy‘ EP is the first of a series of 3 planned EP releases which builds upon his first […]

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Track Premiere: Sam Robbins “Nobody’s Baby”

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April 21, 2021 0

‘Finally Feeling Young‘ the upcoming album from Nashville based artist Sam Robbins is a coming of age album – it’s taken him two years to pull together and because of that it reflects on the […]

Video Premiere: Jesse Aycock “Past Life”

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April 21, 2021 1

“I wish that I could take back time // But here I stand alone again,” sings Jesse Aycock on his latest single.  It is at once personal and universal, a feeling that many listeners will […]

A Night to Remember: Three is the Perfect Number

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April 20, 2021 3

One of the things I like about AUK is that it tries to be the best of both worlds. Whilst it is essentially (and thankfully) a loose collective of fan girls and boys it is […]

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Declan O’Rourke, Live stream from The Abbey Theatre, Dublin -14th April 2021

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Tonight’s set is performed in the lush and prestigious Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s national theatre, established in Dublin in the very early 20th century; its founders included WB Yeats who could turn a memorable verse or […]

Nelson Sobral “Pendulum” – Listen

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April 20, 2021 0

Toronto’s Nelson Sobral is back with a slice of the rockier end of americana – ‘Pendulum‘ sees him wondering why this girl keeps swinging away and swinging back again.  Could it be something to do […]

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