Mumford & Sons have unveiled their video for brand their new single ‘Roll Away Your Stone’, which is released on 7th June through Gentleman Of The Road/ Island Records. ‘Roll Away Your Stone’ comes backed with a live recording of ‘White Blank Page’ from one of the band’s recent headline dates at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire.

Jimi Hendrix’s former London Mayfair home is to be opened up to the public in September this year to commemorate the 40th anniversary of his death. Hendrix rented the top floor flat for the princely sum of £30 per week with his girlfriend, Kathy Etchingham. The opening will form part of an exhibition called Hendrix in Britain and includes rarely-seen as well as iconic photographic images of rock music’s greatest …

The Third & The Seventh is a short film by Alex Roman. Architecture through the cinematographic lens. The visual fusion between the Third and Seventh arts – this brief description defines the declaration of aesthetic principles that underlies the “Third and Seventh” project: A full-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. …

Bristol based Rachael Dadd’s feet pretty much only touch ground when she hits the stage. For the past two or so years she has been touring almost constantly; playing shows in England and further afield Japan, whilst in-between times; stitching craft things and painting personalised record sleeves for sale at gigs. After the Ant Fight (2009) is a collection of piano ballads and more heavily instrumented tracks with rootsy folk …

Lizzie Nunnery, from Maghull in Merseyside,  has two EP releases under her belt and a string of successful live appearances. Her debut album Company Of Ghosts, released on Fellside Records, provides even more evidence of her performing and song writing prowess. I’m always glad to hear a regional accent in a singing voice and Lizzie’s is an asset from the first line, as is her distinctive vocal style. In the …

Following up 2007’s debut Hopey; Rhode Island-based Allysen Callery released her second album Hobgoblin’s Hat in February this year. The LP’s title tips its hat to Finnish author Tove Jansson, of Moomins fame, who happens to be one of Callery’s favourites. In keeping with this fairytale Moominland, her songs are a collectively dark form of storytelling, with the singer songwriter often reworking her self-written poetry (“Vincenzo Part 1 & 2”). …

You’re unlikely to be familiar with the name T. G. Elias. At present, Elias seems to spend his time travelling between small, select venues who provide valuable opportunities for underground musicians to take their first tentative steps, and reveal their wares to an audience full of expectation and preconception.

I just came across this brilliant short film animation. I know there are a lot of John Martyn fans who visit us so I thought you might enjoy this. Future Shorts presents Elliot Dear’s inspiring short animation about the legend John Martyn, the latest animation in the Music Matters campaign. Stay tuned to Music Matters on Facebook and Twitter @whymusicmatters. You may enjoy:

Joanna Newsom has come a long way since her 2004 debut The Milk Eyed Mender: a collection of short heartfelt songs, almost nursery rhymes telling of mollusc weddings and dragons. Written by an Elfin-like creature who appears to be a modern incarnation of the Pre-Raphaelite painting The Lady of Shallot, she sings in a shrill accapella voice, commonly likened to that of a child, much to our singer’s dislike. All …

The age of cabaret is not dead. Bellowhead did a fine job with a grand stage performance. Now check this! Kirsty Almeida brings Eccentricity and abandonment in heaped doses to bring an altogether new recipe and magical performance. Musical dresses, circular doors, chirping toy birds, sonic hallucinations: in Kirsty Almeida we’ve the return, at last, of the enigmatic true eccentric. Her music (like her life) is magical, the kind of …

Seth Lakeman was the last person I expected to turn up in our local pub, The Oak, Clevedon. But after a phone call from a mate saying, “Alex, come to the Oake, Seth Lakeman is here, this isn’t a wind-up, honest!” I went, arrived, and there he was sat playing fiddle with Benji Kirkpatrick along with a discreet couple of film makers to record the video for Hearts and Minds.

Some great news on the line-up for this years Open House Festival which is looking like the Americana gig of the year! The Dave Rawlings Machine, fronted by long-time musical partner of Americana singer songwriter Gillian Welch, are to play an exclusive Irish debut at this year’s Open House Festival in Belfast on Saturday 11th September.