Paper Hearts and Broken Arrows is lush and raw, personal and narrative, all seasoned with Rod Picott’s matured voice. He says it might be the best album he’s made. I think he may be right.
On Cristina Vane’s ‘Make Myself Me Again’, she delves deeper into her Delta blues influences, delivering a top class blues album that places her up there with some of the best.
Filmed by Myles O’Reilly during ‘All Boats Rise Tour’ last year, watch Joshua Burnside and Laura Quirke, joined by Ye Vagabonds, performing Far Away the Hills are Green.
Who We Are is an inspiring collaboration between Nicole Mitchell, an award-winning creative flutist, composer, bandleader and educator and her late husband Calvin Gantt, a writer, spoken word artist…the album aims to provoke the listener to participate in what it is they are hearing.
Supported by a talented guest lineup, with Tell ‘Em You Were Gold, Pharis & Jason Romero reinforce their position within the upper echelons of the global folk music community. Bathed in a warm glow, this album is a delight from start to finish.
Watch the prolific Joseph Allred performing Dance of the Fair Folk from his forthcoming album The Rambles and Rags of Shiloh. Shiloh is a kind of “mandorla,” a place where the spheres of past and present, dead and living, immanent and transcendent, overlap.
The Hug is the latest single from Michele Stodart which she wrote with her daughter Maisie. Watch the charming accompanying video which brings together her daughter’s original drawings to tell the story behind the lyrics of the song.
George Sansome and Sophie Crawford of Queer Folk are curating a series of nights to celebrate Pride Month. They talk to us about the origins of Queer Folk and guide us through a selection of queer traditional songs and talk about queerness in folk history.
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham which tells the tale of an English village in which the women become pregnant by brood parasitic aliens, has been made into a TV Drama for Sky, the score for which was written, produced and performed by Hannah Peel.
Andrew Bird once again confirms that he is one of the most original artists in the music business. He finds a way to deal with complex topics while also attempting to simplify them…Inside Problems have never sounded quite so appealing.
In a first for the record label, Tompkins Square’s next Imaginational Anthem compilation is to be released on Cassette, curated by Nashville pedal steel maverick and Third Man recording artist Luke Schneider.
Watch the accompanying lyric video for Belong to Heaven, the latest single from Cass McCombs on which he navigates the loss of a close friend. He is joined by Danielle Haim on drums and vocals, The Chapin Sisters on additional vocals, Shahzad Ismaily and more.
