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AUK’s Monthly EP Round-Up

May 21, 2026 Graeme Tait 0
Okay, I’m back. And before we turn our attention to this month’s wares, can I start by thanking my esteemed colleague Fred Arnold, who, in my absence, kindly picked up the baton for April’s edition of […]
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Video: The Lucky Ones “Waiting on a Paycheque”

April 18, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0
Yukon-based traditionalists The Lucky Ones are ‘Waiting on a Paycheque’.    Recorded at Ganaraska Recording Co. in Baltimore, Ontario, the band is seen performing around a pair of vintage microphones.  The song would be at home at […]
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Video: The Lucky Ones “Fool’s Gold”

April 2, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0
Canadian traditionalists The Lucky Ones bring their Yukon hillbilly music to the screen in the video for ‘Fool’s Gold’.  The band is seen performing live in the studio with the line up of mandolinist Ryan James […]
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The Lucky Ones “Slow Dance, Square Dance, Barn Dance”

June 13, 2022 Michael Macy 0
New release from the  Canadian Yukon contributes to the Americana canon. The Lucky Ones’ sophomore album, ‘Slow Dance, Square Dance, Barn Dance’, is a treat that could only be cooked up and served by a people […]
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The Lucky Ones “The Lucky Ones”

September 8, 2021 Ewan Lury 0
An album that deserves stronger vocals for the stories it tells. The Lucky Ones’ self-titled debut album partners bluegrass and string band music with detailed stories about Canada’s Far North, Yukon in fact, the territory made […]

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Laura Veirs to release an August album before touring the UK in September

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Esteemed Portland, Oregon-based artist Laura Veirs has announced that her new album, Temple Songs, will come out on 14th August via her label Raven Marching Band Records. Veirs has also shared her lead single Flying Into […]
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Simon Joyner “Tough Love”

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In the lo-fi indie folk tradition, a deeply personal meditation on grief and loss by the Omaha, Nebraska-based singer-songwriter. There is something deeply intriguing about an artist who has, through the 30-plus years of his career, […]
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Still Life Painter “A Month of Longest Days”

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Lowland lo-fi compositions of “love, loss and lap steel”. Phil Smith was part of Glasgow’s thriving indie-rock scene before embarking on his solo venture as Still Life Painter. In 2018, he took on bass duties for […]

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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

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There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]
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Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

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Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]
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Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

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At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

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Wanderingted is both the alias of the singer-songwriter Ted Schmitz and the clue to what he sounds like. His debut album ‘I Could Be You’ is a folk-rock journey to a new place somewhere between Saint […]
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The purchase of the ticket for this event was concluded within 3 minutes of them going on sale back in August of last year. Why the hurry?  Well the simple answer is – it’s Bela Fleck, […]

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