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The Contraptionists “Working Man’s Dread”

June 24, 2021 Peter Churchill 0

One-man band times two equals more than the sum of its parts. So, here’s the thing. A two-man, one-man band, an industrial folk-grunge experiment where the two protagonists, Paul Givant and Stephen Andrews have set out […]

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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 […]

Album Reviews

David Olney “This Side or The Other” (Black Hen Music, 2018)

October 5, 2018 0

The name David Olney won’t be unfamiliar to long-term readers of AUK or fans of the Americana genre itself as the man himself has been somewhat of a staple on the scene for just over 30 […]

Album Reviews

Morton Valence “Black Angel Drifter” (Cow Pie, 2020)

November 25, 2020 0

The opening sentence of promotional material that accompanies this Morton Valence (re)release states “Black Angel Drifter is an album of unorthodox ’country’ music and unlike anything you’ve heard before”. You won’t be surprised to hear that […]

Videos

Video Premiere: Bluenose B “Mother’s Love”

June 11, 2021 0

Here is the artistic, atmospheric video for ‘Mother’s Love’ by folk-rock band Bluenose B. Formed in the 1980s by Stephen Lawson, Bluenose B have been championed by the likes of NME and John Peel over the […]