2025

Enjoy another Monday Morning Brew Playlist, featuring Jim Ghedi, Iona Zajac, Sam Grassie, Silver Apples, CAN, The Smoke, Stealing Sheep, LUMP, Michael Head, Charlie Parr and more.

Our latest KLOF Mixtape features Jim Ghedi, Frog, Richard Dawson, Iona Zajac, Dylan Golden Aycock, Mike Gangloff, Lonnie Holley, Kaito Winse, David Grubbs, Liam Grant, Màiri Morrison & Alasdair Roberts, Yama Warashi, and Park Jiha.

Joined by a number of special guests, guitarist extraordinaire Yasmin Williams performs her first Tiny Desk Concert, playing tracks from her latest collaborative album ‘Acadia’ and 2018’s ‘Unwind’.

With Hinterland, Gerry Diver and Lisa Knapp wanted to create something ‘raw and real and unrestrained,’ something that flies in the face of the notion that folk music is a static form…this gloriously free-spirited album is the perfect example of folk’s potential for reinvention. 

With just Mick Turner’s keyboards twinkling alongside Helen Franzmann’s dreamy, ruminative vocals, Mess Esque share their new single and video, ‘Let Me Know You’, taken from their new album ‘Jay Marie, Comfort Me’ on Drag City.

Lael Neale has shared details of her forthcoming new album Altogether Stranger. Watch the accompanying self-directed video for the album’s centrepiece ‘Tell Me How To Be Here’, filmed by Neale and Guy Blakeslee in LA.

New York City-based improviser and songwriter Wendy Eisenberg signs to Joyful Noise and shares new single “I Don’t Miss You”. Eisenberg has an exciting lineup of performances on the horizon, starting with a residency at The Stone (NYC).

This week, Lonnie Holly released his new single ‘That’s Not Art, That’s Not Music’, a reflection on his early experiences in the art world and larger institutions’ apprehension in accepting Black self-taught fine art.

Inspired by an Emily Dickinson poem, Iona Zajac has shared a music video for ‘Summer’, her first release since 2023 – it begins with a “morning penny-drop realisation that we need more than love to be good for someone.”

Frog’s Daniel Bateman is (still) one of the world’s finest, most singularly gifted songwriters. 1000 Variations on the Same Song might dip liberally into America’s grimy gutters or get its sustenance from heartbreak, but I still can’t listen without a giant lunatic grin.

Luke Sital-Singh’s ‘Fool’s Spring’ documents moments of seeking a new life, a period of high highs and lower lows – although the songs here now ring out in a new light.

With April is Passing, Virginia-based violinist and multi-instrumentalist Mike Gangloff has once again presented us with beautiful, complex, original pieces of music, another excellent example of the unique ability of this fascinating musician.

Philadelphia-based quartet Friendship, share the video for their latest single “Free Association,” taken from their new album Caveman Wakes Up, out May 16 on Merge Records.

Following last year’s release of her debut album Vou Ficar Neste Quadrado, Lisbon-based artist and multi-instrumentalist Ana Lua Caiano will make her first-ever UK performance at La Linea – The London Latin Music Festival on May 1st.