The Handsome Family

Video: The Handsome Family “Gold”

August 19, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

Sonically and lyrically, few band’s can match the atmospheric delivery of The Handsome Family. ‘Gold’ is the opening song from the 2016 album ‘Unseen’, the duo’s tenth studio recording. The sonorous quality, depth and range of […]

Small Venue Heroes: The Handsome Family

January 25, 2022 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

If there ever was a band that could be described as the essence of modern Americana, it is Chicago’s The Handsome Family. The husband and wife duo of Brett and Rennie Sparks, with an occasional cast […]

What should I do, Americana UK?

March 4, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

It’s been a slightly longer pause than anticipated since the last attempt to answer all conundrums posed in a song through the words of another song. But here we are, back by the clamour of popular […]

Something for the weekend: The Handsome Family featuring Allen Ginsberg “Hiway Poesy Painted Desert to Albuquerque”

February 5, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

That’s it for another week dear reader and we leave you for the weekend with a track from the new tribute album to Allen Ginsberg whose classic poetry collection “The Fall Of America: Poems Of These […]

AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Peter Tomkins

January 7, 2021 Clint West 1

A happy new year to everyone as we head into the home straight with our quest to identify the top 10 americana albums ever. Only a handful of writers remain to offer their suggestions before we […]

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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 […]

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Dirty Dozen: T D Lind

November 22, 2016 0

Born and bred in Buckinghamshire, TD Lind fell in love with rock n roll, jazz and blues at a very early age. He spent his early years skipping school to play piano in jazz clubs in […]

Tracks

Midlake “Eyes Full Of Animal” – is that a mirror?

December 5, 2025 0

The thing is, you listen to a new song by Midlake, and it sounds great from the start. Naturally, they are a tight band, and they know what they are doing – that blend of one […]

Album Reviews

Old Pup “Incognito Lounge”

May 19, 2022 0

A haunting collection of poetic psych folk from Milwaukee. Poetry has always been a rich source for songwriters, but this writer’s knowledge of American poets is most probably lacking. Milwaukee based pedal steel guitarist Will Hansen […]

Video: The Handsome Family “Gold”

Small Venue Heroes: The Handsome Family

What should I do, Americana UK?

Something for the weekend: The Handsome Family featuring Allen Ginsberg “Hiway Poesy Painted Desert to Albuquerque”

AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Peter Tomkins

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”