Dean McPhee has shared a live video for “Appleby Fair” from his album “Northern Earth”. He filmed and edited it himself at home in Bradford. It gives an insight into the track and how it’s performed, with a look at the looping process and some of the gear he used to record the album.

A Hawk and a Hacksaw announce their new album “Volume 8”, out February 5, 2027 on Rocket Recordings, and share a live video. Heather Trost says: “After all the war and atrocities that have been happening in Ukraine, Palestine, and Iran it felt we needed to say something through our music.”

Alasdair Roberts & Fredrik Rasten announce their new album, Seven Weathers, a new collection of traditional folk songs of Scottish origin, due for release on January 29th, 2027, via Drag City. Watch the accompanying video “Lady Maisry”, a mesmerising, beautiful and haunting lead single and folk ballad.

Mario Batkovic’s new album “I I” arrives on Invada Records a decade after his first solo album. It takes a more immediate and more radical approach to his exploratory practice with the accordion. Destruction and creation became a major theme, as demonstrated in the Yves Marchon-Directed video for MUNDUS.

Cahalen Morrison announces his new album, “Broken Bell”, and shares his new single, “Weaver’s Cottage”, a reflection on permanence and impermanence, and the brief span of a human life against the enduring natural world. Originally from New Mexico, he has lived in Glasgow for the past five years, and many of the well-known musicians joining him on this album are now close friends.

Blair Dunlop’s “What Still Survives” has many standout moments, one of the most impressive is the overall backbone of its sound, or what Bob Dylan described back in 1966 as ‘wild mercury’. It is an expansive, lyrically immersive album from an artist truly commanding and refining his expressive voice.