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Well, we’re heading well into the Autumn now – high winds, rain and stormy seas are all on the cards; we won’t be mentioning Halloween just yet, although it is time once more to put out our request ...

Anthemic songs of hard times and hope amidst the 99%. Now well into his sixth decade, Michael McDermott keeps on producing records of quality from his home city of Chicago. The eagerly awaited Flowers ...

45 years after their formation, The Blasters re-release the full concert at The Venue in London, with 11 additional tracks. Back in 1979 in America, a new band formed, gloriously ignoring the current ...

Vibrant, anthemic indie-rock driven by wonderful brass, with evocative and atmospheric words of a north-east industrial community. The group’s name comes from a fishing vessel on which Duff’s ...

We have mentioned before that Folk is a broad church, and we’ve hinted that it can be at its best, or at least its most interesting, when it pushes at the boundaries. And, sometimes, that pushing ...

An exceptional album with attitude and twang. Following on from the 2024 release “Still Provoked”, which was a 10 th anniversary re-imagining of her “Provoked” album, Sweeney appeared on the cover ...

Six decades of experience inform lyrical début of Canadian folk-roots songwriter. A new name to our readers, Mike Guiney released his début album The Grace of Eloquence at the age of 61 in 2025. Now ...

The last time The Redlands Palomino Company got a mention in AUK was in 2018, when they released a cover of Springsteen’s Mansion on the Hill. Since then, there seems to have been an attempt to get ...

The bones of a decade has passed since James McMurtry last played live in Great Britain and Ireland, and since then his collection of nine standout studio albums has increased to eleven thanks to the ...

If you had been paying attention to the lineup of The Highwomen when they burst onto the scene in 2019, you might just have caught an ear for the name of Natalie Hemby, who was one […] ...

On Juana Everett’s Alex Muñoz-produced sophomore album, released in May of 2026 on the Barcelona-based Great Canyon Records, the Spanish-born artist grew up and grew into her influences in spades. One ...