After 45 years on the road, the legendary Oysterband are calling time, but not before heading out on tour with June Tabor. The aptly named “A Long Long Goodbye” tour will find them revisiting some of their favourite haunts to perform a career-spanning set.
Milkweed’s ‘Folklore 1979’ is one of the most invigorating and interesting releases of recent years. While the duo would no doubt balk at the term masterpiece, as long as Folklore 1979 exists in the world, it will have to contend with such labels.
Our latest Monday Morning Brew features Rosali, Jon McKiel, Kiran Leonard, L. Martin, Stein Urheim, Iron & Wine, Dana Gavanski, Andy Skellam, Beth Gibbons, Group Listening, Villagers, Darren Hayman, Rozi Plain, Sister John, Karl Blau and Crying Boys Cafe.
Our Song of the Day comes from Meernaa, a Bay Area native and Los Angeles-based, producer, songwriter, and vocalist. Listen to her gorgeous new single called “A Promise.”
Joshua Massad & Dylan Aycock announce their first full-length LP ‘Two Improvisations’. Listen to ‘Track one’, a home recording – We clicked immediately and that was the first time we ever played together.
To mark the 10th Anniversary of Marissa Nadler’s ‘July’ album that paired her for the first time with producer Randall Dunn (Earth, Sunn O))), Sacred Bones have announced a super limited, super deluxe anniversary edition of the album.
Often dark and heartachingly sad, Scott Fagan’s ‘South Atlantic Blues’ is, nevertheless, an engrossing and rewarding listen. He will hopefully be rewarded in 2024 with the acclaim that both he and the album warranted in 1968.
In the first of a new playlist series called ‘Reflections’, we ask Jenny Sturgeon and Boo Hewerdine (Outliers) to put together a playlist that inspires them. Much like our Off the Shelf feature, the choices can be pretty revealing, fascinating and often unexpected.
South London-based experimental artist Kiran Leonard signs to Memorials of Distinction and releases his new single ‘Treat Me A Stranger’, accompanied by a video that is no less beguiling, confusing, funny and uniquely brilliant…It’s a small, intricate gem, and I love it.
This is the Kit has shared their new single, a cover of Gruff Rhys’ Sensations in the Dark which came about when they toured the States together last year.
In many ways, Dean McPhee’s latest offering is a cerebral trip for sure, but every minute of Astral Gold is brimming with what can only be described as soul.
For the latest release in their Imaginational Anthem series, Tompkins Square invited James Toth to curate a tribute album to the legendary Bruce Cockburn. Listen to Jerry David DeCicca (feat. Bill Callahan) performing a cover of Forty Years in the Wilderness.