To mark the release of his new album A Terrible Beauty, Christy Moore has shared a video (his second only music video) for his new single ‘Boy In The Wild’, directed and produced by Ellius Grace and starring Liam Cunningham and Ollie West.

With his newly-named band – Ether Ensemble – Irish pedal steel guitarist David Murphy announces the follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut album with live EP Quay Session and shares its accompanying short film directed by west Cork filmmaker Sean Vincent Phair.

Rather than rootless, the rock of Loose Cattle merges so many influences that it is perhaps the perfect roux for what ails you, with just enough Louisiana spice to give “Someone’s Monster” the heat that makes an undeniable classic.

To mark the fortieth anniversary of their artistic relationship, Maddy Prior and The Carnival Band will tour the UK in what will be not only a celebration but also a farewell, the last time they will undertake such an outing.

A special hauntological Mixtape to mark Samhain. Includes a special Shirley Collins feature, plus music from Folklore Tapes, Burd Ellen, Craven, Penelope Trappes, Bridget Hayden, Elspeth Anne, Benedict Drew, Laura Cannell, Arianne Churchman, Ian Humberstone, David Chatton Baker, Milkweed, Mary Arches, Pefkin and more.

Perfectly timed for Samhain/Halloween, watch the video for ‘Sleep’, the new single from Penelope Trappes. Directed by Agnes Haus, it features Maxine Peake and Kate Dickie… an unscripted pseudo-horror film about sleep paralysis at night.

Return to Kielderside is, among other things, a document of what has happened between that first Kathryn Tickell release and the present day-It’s like a long-exposure photograph of an important and highly impressive career in constant evolution.

From uncanny atmospherics to heartfelt emotion, The Declining Winter’s ‘Last April’ offers the perfect example of how the combination of sadness, hope and love can be captured in music, perhaps more effectively than any other artform.

Fortunately for us, Christy Moore’s songs, albums, and gigs keep coming, and on ‘A Terrible Beauty’, the tenderness, empathy, solidarity, and absence of pretension never waver – long may it continue.

For anyone already aboard the Sun Ra mothership, Kingdom of Discipline, the latest release from the man and his Arkestra on Dead Currencies, is going to fast become a key missing piece to the overall puzzle as well as a favoured edition from the catalogue.

Robert Macfarlane & Nick Hayes have collaborated on another modern Broadside Ballad which protests the slow death of rivers in the UK & around the world––& sings for their revival.

Our Song of the Day comes from Cynefin – Welsh folk singer and cultural historian Owen Shiers. Taken from his forthcoming album Shimli, listen to his latest single, ‘Helmi’, which presents the words of an obscure cân (a poem or song) by farmer Evan Jones.