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Video: The Lumineers: Gale Song (Live From Wrigley Field) ft. James Bay

August 22, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0
41,000 fans join The Lumineers and James Bay in the new video for ‘Gale Song’ recorded live at Chicago’s Wrigley Field stadium.   Standing on a confetti-strewn stage the band and Bay deliver a heartfelt rendition of […]
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Video” The Lumineers “Big Shot”

November 9, 2021 Cam Fraser 0
Denver’s double GRAMMY-nominated band, The Lumineers, release the second single from, ‘Brightside‘, their eagerly anticipated new album. ‘Big Shot‘ poignantly considers the destructiveness of big egos left unchecked, and the bad decisions that can ensue. Produced […]
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Simone Felice announces new album – UK tour dates on sale today

October 21, 2021 Emily Dongray 1
Simone Felice, formerly one of The Felice Brothers, has announced new album ‘All the Bright Coins‘ will be released on 28th January 2022 on Chrysalis Records. Felice tours the UK and Ireland in February. Simone Felice […]
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AUK’s Chain Gang: Simone Felice “Bye Bye Palenville”

October 19, 2020 Viv Fish 2
Following on from last weeks, ‘Satan & St Paul‘ by John Fulbright, another sensational writer, performer and producer, who expresses and tackles life’s demons with charm and elegant imagery, is Simone Felice. Having come back from […]
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RS Country: “How Americana Went Mainstream in the 2010s”

January 7, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0
Rolling Stone Country published a really interesting piece just before we had our Christmas break which described how americana was once a niche genre (rude), before finding a wider audience in the last decade citing artists […]

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Something for the weekend: Starpainter “I Found a River”

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Well that’s it from us for this week and we leave you dear reader with a new video for a new song by Alberta-based sextet Starpainter which YES I KNOW we ran last week, but Jon […]
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Kris Drever “Doing This For Love”

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Meditations on the unglamorous, but with melodic hooks, from Scottish folk-award winner Anyone coming to this album for their first experience of Kris Drever may well be expecting something fairly traditional in light of his many […]
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Classic Clips: Jesse Colin Young “Darkness Darkness” – All Star Jam, Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey, 1984

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Jesse Colin Young passed away just over a year ago, on the 16th of March, at the age of eighty-three. Born Perry Miller and raised in Queens, New York, to musical parents, Young initially found fame […]

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Interview: Dirk Powell on “Wake” and bridging modern and age-old roots music

June 11, 2026 1
Dirk Powell is a special kind of musician, someone who, through family connections, knows and understands both Appalachia and Cajun music, and is at the same time comfortable with modern music technology. He has won four […]
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Interview: Ma Polaine’s Great Decline is thriving

June 10, 2026 0
With influences in blues, jazz and country, Ma Polaine’s Great Decline is actually thriving on their fifth album, Monster Swan (2025). Based in Somerset, England, Beth Packer’s distinctive, emotive vocals, coupled with her evocative lyrics, create […]
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Interview: Greg Loftus – As both musician and carpenter, he would like to knock on wood

June 5, 2026 1
Greg Loftus comes from the town of Bourne, not far from the bridge that connects Massachusetts to Cape Cod. It is there that he practices woodworking, operates a club in nearby Falmouth and makes rock music […]

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Richmond, Va.-based guitarist Thorp Jenson has announced the release of his forthcoming debut album “Odessa” which comes out October 20th, and he’s shared the first single “Oklahoma” at Glide who called the track, “Spirited and energetic,” and praised […]
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Record Store Day 2023 – an AUK guide

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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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Whatever Happened To… Whatever Happened To?

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All good things must come to an end and, while we’ve had some great fun with this series and, I hope, reminded you of a lot of artists that might not have come to mind for […]

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