★★★★★ Robert Doyle’s fingerstyle guitar playing, and the guitar’s mesmerizing tone, are the main draws of ‘Life In Shadows’. His guitar style benefits from the influence of his former tutor, French-Algerian guitarist Pierre Bensusan and his emotional vocal performances owe much to the Sean-Nos style.

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy has released a digital only single titled ‘Quail & Dumplings’. The single features a track from the forthcoming album Wolfroy Goes to Town as well as some bonus tracks. Watch the video featuring Nina Nastasia!

Villagers have a new video for ‘Cecelia & Her Selfhood’. A long-standing live favourite at Villagers’ live shows, ‘Cecelia’ has finally been committed to tape. Indeed, more than a simple music video, it slowly took the shape of a short film by animator extraordinaire, Adrien Merigeau.

Folk Radio UK favourite Wilful Missing are to have two of their songs featured on this weeks BBC drama series Waterloo Road. You can download their new track, Constitution Failed, and watch the new video..plus, a new album is on the horizon!

On The Guardian’s latest series of ‘How I Covered…’ Bill Bailey steps in to demonstrate his cover of Gary Newman’s classic ‘Cars’…of course, if he didn’t do things a bit diffrently he wouldn’t be Bill Bailey, so he sings in French and plays the horns!

★★★★★ With T-Bone Burnett at the helm and featuring cameos from Ryan Bingham, Sam Phillips, Rosanne Cash and Marc Ribot the album features only two self penned tracks and one co-write. The more I listened the more I began to sense that there is more Burnett than Bridges…

We chat to Will Whitwham of Canadian five-piece The Wilderness of Manitoba ahead of their short stop over in London, and debut European release When You Left the Fire.

★★★★★ File Under Fiction is the latest release from Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers. Findlay and writing partner Nick Turner have delivered a collection of songs full of earthy humour, hopeless love and biting satire.

Ruarri Joseph has released a new video for his new song ‘A Good Thing Fallen’ which you can watch below. Ruarri is currently busy working on finishing his new album and rehearsing for his autumn / winter tour.

Watch these new music videos of Ryan Adams performing Dirty Rain and Ashes & Fire from his forthcoming album. They were filmed by David Black who was selected as one of 30 emerging photographers to watch in 2011 by Photo District News.

Bard are a new up and coming young band that features Theo, Louisa and Ewan. They have a unique sound that combines guitar, accordion and clarinet and their vocal talents have a timeless feel that is a perfect match to Theo’s inspiring lyrics.

Sound Tracks is a new multi-venue festival at three venue sites at New Cross, Shoreditch and Dalston, all connected by the East London Line across the Thames. Meanwhile, the East London Line will host a special ‘Travelling Stage’ of its own. Join them on Saturday 17 Sept from 7.00pm