For one week only we are previewing Boo Hewerdine’s new release ‘My Name in the Brackets‘. Plus Boo takes us track by track through the album released on 8th December.

More new releases from the Aladdin’s Cave of musical wonders known as Dust-to-Digital including newly re-mastered Alan Lomax recordings from Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.

Lorcán MacMathuna of Preab Meadar talks us through the dance element of their new album with a brief look at the history of Irish Literature.

Our Song of the Day comes from Glasgow based Aaron Fyfe – a name you’ll be hearing a lot more from very soon. A voice that packs a mighty emotional punch.

Suspend a few minutes of your working day as Ane Brun takes you to the backdoor of her mind with her classic Treehouse Song performed live at Cirkus, Stockholm in 2013

Sylvie Simmons puts on a a top performance at London’s 12 Bar Club with support from Raevennan Husbandes. Songs for loners, lovers and losers…a memorable evening.

Sheema Mukherjee gives FRUK an exclusive insight into her debut solo LP, a vivacious vinyl treat that takes her classical Indian sitar skills into a bold new fusion of sound.

Jessica Pratt releases her new single ‘Back, Baby’ this week, a taste of the sunshine that will come in January with her new album. Also our Song of the Day.

Sam Amidon, Bill Frisell and Shahzad Ismaily put on a fantastic live session for NPR performing tracks from his last two albums. It’s brilliant.

A feathery air may inform the album’s ambience, but behind it lie deceptively and disarmingly moving literate songs that catch you unawares with the acumen of their images and emotions.

Sean Rowe covers Richard Thompson’s classic ‘1952 Vincent Black Lightning’. You can almost smell the dirt and grease as he delivers it with that soulful baritone.

The Holy Court of Baltimore is the fourth self-released album by Chris Kiehne, an album on which his lyrics draw extensively on Shakespeare’s Ophelia.