Frog have always been brilliant at exposing the emptiness and hollowness at the heart of things, and filling it up, at least temporarily, with their own brand of heartfelt Americana. Eight albums in, and that continues to be the case. Frog For Sale, with its Beatle-baiting title and condensed, pining, piano-oriented sound, is a welcome hit of literate indie wistfulness from one of America’s most consistently impressive bands.

Mama’s Broke — Nova Scotia’s Amy Lou Keeler and Lisa Maria — share “Heaven,” the first single from their forthcoming album, out now via Free Dirt Records and Forward Music Group. “We’ve been left with a system collapsing under the weight of its own greed and corruption,” the duo say of a song about stepping back from urgency and devoting time to what you love. North American Analog Tour announced.

Kris Drever’s “Doing This For Love” is an artfully crafted meditation on the unglamorous reality of 4am alarm clocks and quiet sacrifices. Infused with northern grit, it stands as a powerful tribute to the working lives it depicts. These songs are born of struggle but elevated by love, each with the potential to secure a lasting place in the folk canon.

The Monday Morning Brew #151 opens with Iron & Wine and Ben Bridwell’s Ab’s Song and fans out across twenty-seven tracks, taking in Meg Baird, Jim Ghedi, Sally Anne Morgan, James Elkington, Sam Amidon, Michael Hurley, The Weather Station, Brigid Mae Power, Fruit Bats, Jack Rose, Jolie Holland and many more of folk’s most distinctive voices.

Supersonic Festival has confirmed ten new acts for its sold-out limited-edition 2026 event, including Guttersnipe, Jennifer Reid, Thorn Wych, Ancient Hostility and more. MMM — the trio of Gayle Brogan, Nick Jonah Davis and Elizabeth Still — have also shared a video for Hands to Stone, Eyes to Stars from their Calanais Stones-inspired album Lunistice Alignments.

“…an album that flits so easily between past and present, whose songs encompass fluttering beauty and quietly looming presences.” The Little Winters is an album worthy of the clàrsach, with all its historical and cultural importance, and Anna McLuckie, with her clear voice, poetic songwriting and precise, fluid playing, has announced herself as one of British folk music’s most formidable talents.

Bill MacKay and Cooper Crain have announced Stash, their second album as BCMC, due June 26th via Drag City. Lead single Kaleidosmoke is out now — a sprawling, nearly eight-minute psychedelic piece layering Brit-rock guitars over a patient, accumulative structure. Where their debut Foreign Smokes was built on improvisation, Stash finds the duo working with tighter, groove-based composition.

Bristol indie-folk songwriter Myer U Clark announces new album Tinderbox, due 26th June via Broadside Hacks Recordings, and shares new single and video Healers today. Produced by Jack Ogborne at The Crypt, it’s a whimsical love song built on wiry guitar and Clark’s self-styled “musical jank” — shambling, carefree and recalling The Go-Betweens and Aztec Camera.

With its cast of crows and references to wild rain and leaden skies, Natalie Wildgoose’s ‘Rural Hours’ is music for the high moorlands and windswept hills. The loose structures and unorthodox arrangements of her songs remain, but they are brought into focus by a small ensemble. Her songs are intentionally ephemeral — part of their appeal is the charged silence they leave in their wake.

Get the bigger picture with the Monday Morning Brew playlist. Opening with a track from Hannah Read’s The Funghi Sessions Vol 2, this week’s playlist moves through music from Jim Moray, Wendy Eisenberg, Felicia Atkinson, Aldous Harding, Steve Gunn, Zoh Amba, Damien Jurado, Thomas Dollbaum, Jesca Hoop, Oren Ambarchi, Akusmi, Les Imprimés, Juni Habel, Lia Kohl & Macie Stewart and Whitney Johnson, crys cole, and many more.

Ava Mendoza will release “Alive Alone, Alive Together” on May 22nd via Burning Ambulance Music. Featuring legendary drummer Hamid Drake on four tracks, the album was recorded live across the US and Europe in 2025. Listen to first single “Dust From the Mines,” a fierce glimpse of the album’s raw, psychedelic intensity.

Jim Moray — folk music’s errant prince — returns with Gallants, his eighth solo album. Traditional ballads are teased into stunning new shapes, the self-penned Three Gallants fits seamlessly among them, and the imposing Omie Wise drips with pathos and tenderness. A stunning closer backed by Maddie Morris and the Trans Choir seals an uncompromising, deeply immersive collection.