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Mark Whitfield, AUK Editor’s top 20 songs of 2025: Part One, 20-11

December 15, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

It’s been another very full on year here in AUK Towers, a year in which we got bombarded with albums but more than that, by the four minute pieces of music which make them up – […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 201 “The Garden”

September 26, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

Writing these articles takes place within the titular shed, and I consequently spend much time gazing out of the window at the ever-changing foliage in front of me. It’s not a huge garden, essentially a strip […]

Patterson Hood announces new solo album “Exploding Trees and Airplane Screams”

November 22, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

His first for 12 years – packed with friends and Truckers. Patterson Hood the co-founder of of The Drive By Truckers and fierce political commentator has revealed his latest work as a solo album called “Exploding […]

For The Sake Of The Song: Bob Dylan “Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)”

September 14, 2026 1

This surreal cut from Bob Dylan’s 1978 album Street-Legal can be interpreted in many ways. Dylan himself has offered many different explanations of the song’s intricate lyrics, often contradicting his earlier descriptions. Whatever the story, or […]

Track Premiere: Louise Bichan “The Standing Stones”

September 14, 2026 0

Standing Stones – enigmatic traces of the long past dwellers in these lands. People with their own culture, their own way of looking at the world – and even though they are long gone these remaining […]

Margo Cilker “Little White Cross”