Taylor Swift

Live Review: Taylor Swift, Eras Tour, Wembley Stadium – 17th August 2024

August 28, 2024 Viv Fish 0

Following our Editor-in-Chief’s review of one of Ms Swift’s shows at Anfield Stadium in Liverpool in June, which you can read here I hope readers can cope with just one more… [Editor’s note: please be assured […]

Live Review: Taylor Swift, Anfield Stadium Liverpool – 13th June 2024

June 14, 2024 Mark Whitfield 7

So you’ll be aware dear reader that it’s not often that we cover acts with the reach of Taylor Swift here on AUK, and I knew when I began writing this review that I’d have to […]

artwork for Sarah Jarosz album "Polaroid Lovers"

Sarah Jarosz “Polaroid Lovers”

April 15, 2024 Viv Fish 2

How to stand out from the crowd. If four Grammy Awards, including Best Americana Album in 2020 with ‘World on the Ground‘, weren’t enough to make her stand out from the crowd, this, Texas-born singer, songwriter, […]

Taylor Swift announces The Eras Tour UK dates for 2024

June 21, 2023 Mark Whitfield 2

We have featured Taylor Swift around these parts from time to time in recent years due to her original country leanings which morphed for some recent albums into the kind of indie-folk we often kill for […]

Record Store Day 2023 – an AUK guide

April 18, 2023 Emily Dongray 0

It’s that time again when the format fiends get excited about queueing at 5 am (or earlier) to be among the few to own this year’s exclusively released records. Record Store Day started in 2007 and […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

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 […]

Interviews

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 […]

Interviews

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 […]

News

Jess Williamson announces UK tour dates for summer

May 3, 2024 0

Singer-songwriter Jess Williamson makes her second trip over the Atlantic in 2024 to play a series of shows in between some festival appearances. Williamson sold out two London dates on consecutive nights in January and has […]

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Americana UK launches our gig guide (at last!)

November 9, 2018 2

Well it’s been a while coming, apologies for that, but we laboured with a fairly, er, laborious system for some weeks before realising it was crap and we’d have to start again. Huge thanks to John Vaites for […]

Videos

Video: The Redlands Palomino Company “Mansion On The Hill”

April 6, 2018 1

As it’s the excellent Ramblin Roots Revue this weekend in High Wycombe this week’s retro slot features this great Springsteen cover from the Redlands Palomino Company, who’ll be on stage there later today. Have a good […]

Live Review: Taylor Swift, Eras Tour, Wembley Stadium – 17th August 2024

Live Review: Taylor Swift, Anfield Stadium Liverpool – 13th June 2024

Sarah Jarosz “Polaroid Lovers”

Taylor Swift announces The Eras Tour UK dates for 2024

Record Store Day 2023 – an AUK guide

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”