News
Record Store Day 2023 – an AUK guide
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 […]
Wilco
Classic Americana Albums
Classic Americana Albums: Billy Bragg and Wilco “Mermaid Avenue”
Prior to the release of ‘Mermaid Avenue’ in 1998, for many people, the name of Woody Guthrie invoked images of a free-spirited, freight train hopping, American troubadour armed only with an acoustic guitar, who wrote political […]
Features
Americana UK’s Top 10 albums of 2022 – Numbers 6-3
Yesterday we explored the first four albums in our top 10 of the year as chosen collectively by AUK writers. Tomorrow we will reveal our runner-up and number-one album of 2022, but for today, here’s numbers […]
Album Reviews
Blackbirds FC “Magiclands”
Blackbirds FC are as Australian as it is possible to be and could be the next Antipodean musical export. It is not hard to find 21st-Century bands who claim inspiration from the jingle jangle pop of […]
Features
AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: The Readers’ Results
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 […]