We talk to Madison Cunningham about her new album ‘Revealer’, being a woman in the music industry, and her upcoming International Women’s Day concert at the Barbican – ‘in her words’.

With Almost a Sunset, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman draw on traditional roots, refracted through a contemporary lens; this is not so much a sunset as the dawn of a glorious new chapter in their increasingly illustrious career.

Listen to our latest Lost in Transmission – Featuring Lucy Farrell, Half Gringa, Lankum, Magic Tuber Stringband, Ben Walker, Steve Gunn & David Moore, P.G. Six, Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay, Alice, Scott William Urquhart & Constant Follower, Shane Parish, Jeffrey Scott, wendyeisenberg and Tomten.

Kris Drever will tour with his own band this summer. To celebrate,  Reveal Records have issued an expansive (36-song) career-spanning compilation album that features three exclusive new songs “Catterline”, “Punchbag”, and “Dust in Light” (written with label mate Boo Hewerdine).

The Norway-based Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra release “The Broken Circle Sessions” today; watch them performing their album opener ‘Heaven and Hell’ as a 15-strong orchestra in front of a sold-out audience.

Scotland’s revered folk trio The Langan Band announce their first record in ten years, Plight o’ Sheep. Listen to their lead single, ‘One Whole Year’, also our Song of the Day.

Filmed in the ancient heart of Bergamo, Italy, watch the accompanying video for Buck Curran’s Winter Solstice 1, taken from the recently released ‘Solstice: A Tribute to Steffen Basho-Junghans’. We also have details of his Robbie Basho 12 String Restoration Project.

Five years on from his last release, Slaid Cleaves returns with ‘Together Through The Dark’, an album that reinforces his status as one of Americana’s finest singer-songwriters on a collection of songs that speak of loss, longing, change and trying to make it through.

No Food Without Taste If By Hunger, with its hypnotic, bouncy basslines, sixties-style trippy, psychedelic guitars, seductive and oft electrifying keyboards, compelling highlife horns and raw, primal trance-like grooves makes for an irresistibly infectious album. Intoxicating funk music at its very best.

Today, sees the release of Horse Lords Live in Leipzig, described as an exploded view of the quartet’s unparalleled live show. Watch them performing ‘Mess Mend’, which gives a brilliant insight into the complexities of their music and the demands it places upon the musicians.

American Primitive Guitar pioneer Harry Taussig will release his new album ’80’ via Tompkins Square on his 82nd birthday. He reflects on how he wanted to extend the American folk guitar tradition into previously unexplored territories and how he did so through theories of classical musical forms.

Leveret’s new album ‘Forms’ is a mesmerising and nourishing treat for both the ears and the soul, as they pay homage to their love of the English folk tradition whilst simultaneously breathing new life and energy into historic tunes.