This Thursday sees the release of Paddy Dennehy’s second album ‘Love and Be Brave’. While created in a far shorter timeframe than his debut, it’s no less potent, as the title track testifies. “The great driving force behind this album was the slow realisation on my part that love is not a given thing in this world…”

While it’s been a long hibernation, ‘Wish You Were Here’ finds Terry Emm in top form; it’s good to welcome him back into the warmth of the sun.

Bonnie “Prince” Billy announces his new album ‘Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You’ and shares lead single & video ‘Bananas’ – Bonny’s call-n-response with Dane Waters passes the love around until flowers bloom forth from the desert…

The Declining Winter is an integral, if obscure, feature of the British musical landscape, like a stone circle hidden behind a housing estate and Adams’ latest offering, Really Early, Really Late, is an engrossing, sometimes playful, frequently pensive, and never less than captivating album.

Gareth Thompson reflects on Mike Gangloff’s well-attended gig at the Golden Lion…Gangloff ends by saying, “A set of creaky old fiddle tunes ain’t the easiest gig to sell,” but the success of his latest touring venture would rather suggest it is.

Featuring music from Me Lost Me, Everything Play, Collin Walcott, Don Cherry & Nana Vasconcelos, Alabaster DePlume, Jeffrey Silverstein, Opal Eskar, Damon & Naomi, Emma Tricca, The Circling Sun, Jeffrey Silverstein, koleżanka and lots more.

The music across the twelve tracks of Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay is diverse and dynamic, ebbing and flowing like a river, evoking nature and the outdoors wonderfully. Assured in its composition and immaculate in its execution, this one is a must.

Recorded at Panoramic House, outlaw country group Mapache have pushed their sound to new heights on their new album Swinging Stars. Watch the video for their lead single People Please.

Gate To Southwell Festival have called this year’s festival their most international, entertaining and musically diverse event yet, with more names still to be announced. The current lineup includes Jake Blount, The Raghu Dixit Project, Tom Russell, Morton Valence, Bonfire Radicals and lots more.

Featuring three of Chicago’s biggest hitters – Douglas McCombs, Bill MacKay & Charles Rumback – Black Duck is a dynamic, experimental set of instrumentals that oozes the kind of confidence you would hope for from such a power trio.

Our Song of the Day comes from Amy May Ellis with a live version of ‘Aud Mother’ which celebrates witches, mothers, and the power of friendship. There are some familiar faces in the video, including Rachael Dadd.

‘Hold. Star. Return’ finds David A. Jaycock exploring more fully the world of antique electronica. A fuzzy, off-kilter melodicism pervades much of this weirdly beautiful album, which manages to be constantly aware of the past and yet never sentimental.