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  • [ August 4, 2026 ] AUK Shortcuts: Around About Dusk, Paul Mosley and The Red Meat Orchestra, Coldsville, The Roseline, Jim Reynolds, Long John Makkay, Clark Paterson, and Davis Wells Album Reviews
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Various Artists “Sittin’ with Blaze, A Tribute to Blaze Foley”

August 4, 2026 Jeremy Clarke-Williams 0
A timely and heartfelt tribute to the late, lamented Blaze Foley reminds us of the ongoing quality and influence of a great songwriter. What is the ‘various artists’ tribute album for? Most obviously, it provides an […]
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More People Really Should Know About: The Deslondes

August 22, 2023 Paul Kerr 1
As the gist of this column is to raise the awareness of acts who provide quality music but aren’t especially lauded I reckoned that The Deslondes, a five-piece outfit from New Orleans fitted the bill. To […]

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AUK Shortcuts: Around About Dusk, Paul Mosley and The Red Meat Orchestra, Coldsville, The Roseline, Jim Reynolds, Long John Makkay, Clark Paterson, and Davis Wells

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Various Artists “Sittin’ with Blaze, A Tribute to Blaze Foley”

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Ian Noe announces new album with September release

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Tom Waits “The Fly” – no Jeff Goldblum

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Video Premiere: Erik Vincent Huey “Things You Left Behind”

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Album Reviews

AUK Shortcuts: Around About Dusk, Paul Mosley and The Red Meat Orchestra, Coldsville, The Roseline, Jim Reynolds, Long John Makkay, Clark Paterson, and Davis Wells

August 4, 2026 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, […]
Album Reviews

Various Artists “Sittin’ with Blaze, A Tribute to Blaze Foley”

August 4, 2026 0
A timely and heartfelt tribute to the late, lamented Blaze Foley reminds us of the ongoing quality and influence of a great songwriter. What is the ‘various artists’ tribute album for? Most obviously, it provides an […]
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Ian Noe announces new album with September release

August 4, 2026 0
Ian Noe has announced the release of his third studio album, Canyon Falls Trailer Band, on 25th September 2026 via Thirty Tigers. Canyon Falls Trailer Band is a 16-song concept album drawing on sounds from folk-rock […]

  • AUK Shortcuts: Around About Dusk, Paul Mosley and The Red Meat Orchestra, Coldsville, The Roseline, Jim Reynolds, Long John Makkay, Clark Paterson, and Davis Wells
  • Various Artists “Sittin’ with Blaze, A Tribute to Blaze Foley”
  • Ian Noe announces new album with September release
  • Tom Waits “The Fly” – no Jeff Goldblum
  • Video Premiere: Erik Vincent Huey “Things You Left Behind”
  • For The Sake Of The Song: Bonnie Raitt “I Can’t Make You Love Me”
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  • Chris Dodge: It may be through one of the magazine polls you have already referred to but I was drawn to the…
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  • Mark William: Two notable omissions: Laurence Kingston Band and Dom Glynn and his Sunday Best. Both their Saturday and Sunday sets were…

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Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”

July 29, 2026 0
American Aquarium appear to be on a creative roll with their latest album, New Ways To Lose, getting great reviews even though it is their twentieth album in as many years. Added to this is the […]
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Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories

July 28, 2026 0
“Radiate a smile if we’re only here for a short while / no we don’t want to miss a day / cus there’s so much we must do,” sings David Keenan on Radiate a Smile, four […]
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Interview: The Lives of Famous Men take the elevator upward

July 24, 2026 0
End Times Elevator Music is a special record to behold. From the Link Wray fuzz guitar rumbles on opener No Alarm to the title track closer, which arrives like Ben Schneider and Brendan Urie collaborated, there […]

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Watch Margo Price perform “Hey Child” on Colbert

July 12, 2021 0
Margo Price has announced the release of a new live EP which comes out this Friday (16th July). ‘Live From the Other Side’ features three live performances, including a pair of collaborations with four collaborators: Adia […]
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Ags Connolly “Wrong Again” (Finstock Music, 2019)

October 31, 2019 0
Ags Connolly, one of the most authentic western swing artists this side of the Atlantic, has delivered once more with his third studio album, ‘Wrong Again’. Dwelling on similar terms to those previous, Connolly’s mix of […]
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Jarle Skavhellen “The Ghost in Your Smile” (Nettwerk, 2018)

June 12, 2018 2
Scandinavian Alt Folk is a subgenre known only to a select few. However, Norwegian Jarle Skavhellen ably demonstrates that it warrants a far wider audience. This is a quirky, often dark collection of songs. Considering that […]

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