The Delines

Paperback Riders – Willy Vlautin “Lean on Pete”

November 25, 2022 Tim Martin 0

Willy Vlautin will be best known to AUK readers as the guitarist and songwriter with Richmond Fontaine and The Delines. At the same time, he has been building a career as a novelist and short story […]

Live Review: The Delines + Arborist, Alexandra Palace Theatre, London – 11th November 2022

November 24, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

The long trudge up the hill to Alexandra Palace reaps a heck of a reward – this was a first visit to the recently re-opened Alexandra Place Theatre and to say it is a remarkable space […]

Live Review: Cwtch Festival, St Davids, Wales, 28th -30th October 2022

November 11, 2022 Oliver Gray 1

Steve Prior is a musician who used to be drummer for The Caves and Peter Bruntnell. When he moved to St Davids in Pembrokeshire to open a B&B, he had a dream of setting up a […]

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: The Readers’ Results

November 10, 2022 Clint West 4

Firstly thanks to the very many of you that sent in your selections. There were a very wide spread of suggestions put forward with close to 150 albums gaining at least one vote. In the end […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 71

November 8, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 0

Forgive me please … Half terms come and go at speed but this one has been a memorable one for many things. Walks with friends, recording a Mixcast broadcast and driving a battlefields tour to Ypres […]

Track Premiere: Gary Marks “Where We Started”

September 22, 2026 0

On his new song, Gary Marks turns his songwriter vision on recent events in his homeland, starting from an unprecedented riot in Washington to the, perhaps, surprising eventual fallout from that event. As Marks explains: “I […]

Video: Prinz Grizzley “A Mountain to Be Tamed (The Struggling)” – There’s a devil in me waiting

September 22, 2026 0

Here’s the absorbing new single from Prinz Grizzley, also known as singer-songwriter Chris Comper. A Mountain to Be Tamed (The Struggling) has sparse beginnings, but the musical tension builds dramatically as Comper delivers an incredibly intense […]

Stamping on the passion: Why AI written PR is a bad thing for music

September 21, 2026 7

If a music writer opens ten press releases this month, they’ll spot something odd. They all sound like the same person wrote them. Not because the artists share a publicist, or because there’s a house style […]