Our latest Short Cuts, a monthly feature where AUK casts a brief eye and ear on several albums we’ve received recently which ...

Keith’s back from down under with the podcast firing with both barrels, featuring, as it does two interviews with artists ...

Zach Williams, Kanene Donehey Pipkin and Brian Elmquist, collectively The Lone Bellow, came into being when Georgia natives, ...

A broad-spectrum listening experience packed with vibrant, timeless songs.

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 ...

A hugely enjoyable and melodic offering from established Texan band. In the period 2010 to 2022, Texan band Left Arm Tan ...

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 ...

Burning Hills is the first release by Danny Malone in over a decade; it marks a return to music that has been, by any measure ...

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 ...