Recorded in May 2024 at 2220 Arts + Archive, Los Angeles, California, watch Carlos Niño & Friends performing their 2024 album Placenta – a work of warmth and humanity and unruly, anarchic joy that’s perfectly captured on stage.
Taken from his forthcoming album, Jeffrey Lewis shares his latest single, “Just Fun”. Watch the accompanying video directed by Jak Kerley, which features a cameo by Joanna Sternberg, among others.
We chatted with American author, musician, and songwriter Willy Vlautin about The Delines’ new album, Mr Luck and Ms Doom. We also talk about his songwriting process, novel writing, and his fondness for Italian movie soundtracks from the 1960s and 1970s.
Dálava, the genre-defying ensemble led by vocalist Julia Úlehla with guitarist Aram Bajakian, announce their new album ‘Understories’ – a continuation of their experimental journey and homage to traditional Moravian (Czech) folksong.
Flora, the underrated 2006 release from Japanese musician and composer Hiroshi Yoshimura, is to be reissued (on vinyl and cassette for the first time) and includes liner notes written by music scholar Junichi Konuma.
Teeth of Time is Joshua Burnside’s most rounded, complex and layered work to date. That said, the jagged edges and black depths that have characterised his music for a decade are still there, only now they are illuminated by a fragile beauty.
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.
