Listen in full to The Waterboys new album ‘Modern Blues’ – references to Sun Ra, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis appear and there’s even a reading from Jack Kerouac.
Our Song of the Day comes from Marika Hackman with ‘In Words’, from her forthcoming debut album, ‘We Slept At Last’. Reminiscent of German folk-singer Sibylle Baier.
In part 1 of our exclusive interview with Joe Topping he talks about spending time in America, his epic charity walk and the lasting effect it’s all had on his music.
Morrissey speaks out against the Brit Awards targeting the big labels, propaganda, telly-culture – where the elite decide what it is that the people want, and then slyly attempt to weave it into populist culture.
Watch the stunning performance from Rhiannon Giddens and her band performing ‘Waterboy’ live on David Letterman. Her new album Tomorrow is My Turn is out now.
With just over three months to go until the 33rd Orkney Folk Festival it’s looking to already be another success with the full lineup recently revealed. Watch our video preview.
Watch a new session from one of our finest singer songwriters – Ewan McLennan as he performs a beautiful guitar medley. This is one is perfect to escape to.
With top support from Nashville’s fastest rising star Andrew Combs, Justin Townes Earle takes to the Union Chapel Stage energised, relaxed and firing on all cylinders.
Alex Highton expands upon his previous recordings by confidently intermixing his eclectic range of influences with welcome appearances from Laura J Martin and Nancy Wallace.
Peter Broderick announces new album and reveals the opening track ‘Red Earth’. The journey behind this album is an interesting one which took him to Lucerne, Switzerland…read on.
The Alabama Shakes reveal details of their highly anticipated new album Sound & Color and reveal an animation video for their lead single ‘Don’t Wanna Fight’.
