Starting in July, James Yorkston’s Tae Sup Wi’ A Fifer takes to the road again featuring Gruff Rhys, Salena Godden, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Josie Long, Jeffrey Lewis and Kathryn Joseph.

Watch the video for Wes Tirey’s ‘Red Corn, Yellow Corn’, taken from his latest album ‘The Midwest Book of the Dead’ which gets a double vinyl re-release on Mapache Records next month.

We talk to folk duo Lisa Maria and Amy Lou Keeler, AKA Mama’s Broke, ahead of the release of their second album ‘Narrow Line’. Plus, watch their new video for October’s Lament.

On “Baby, You’re a Gun”, the latest single from Country soul singer-songwriter Tami Neilson, she explores society’s underestimation of strong women and the roles they are expected to play.

Leyla McCalla’s ‘Breaking the Thermometer’ is both a tribute to Jean Dominique and Michéle Montas and an impassioned defence of democracy in present-day Haiti and a quest towards personal understanding… It’s an extremely intelligent album, but it is also a warm, hopeful, angry, questioning one.

Valorie Miller’s ‘Only The Killer Would Know’ is part ecopolitics-activism (a sort of musical equivalent to the film Dark Waters), part-excursion into troubled relationships, it’s an at times swampy slow burner that progressively gets deeper inside you the more you play it.

Taken from her latest album 30 : Happy Returns which celebrates her 30 years as a professional musician in 2022, watch Kate Rusby performing Ghost, the title track of her 2014 album.

Taken from their forthcoming album Cross the Rolling Water, watch Hannah Read and Michael Starkey performing a cover of Anais Mitchell’s Shenandoah. The agile, stripped-back combination of banjo and guitar amplifies the emotion carried in Hannah’s vocals which really brings this heartfelt song alive.

A BBC Radio 3 Late Junction session from 2020 featuring Korean multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha and writer and performer Roy Claire Potter is to be released on Cafe OTO’s in house label OTOROKU.

The music of Tone of Voice Orchestra defies description or categorisation, combining Scandinavian roots with indie folk, jazz and global influences, exceptional harmonies and sophisticated lyrics; they will draw you back again and again. An exceptional debut.

Sacred Bones have today announced that they are to publish a 200-page book on the legendary Los Angeles cult The Source Family and their wildly influential psychedelic rock band Ya Ho Wa 13.

Simon J Jones likes to do things differently, and he doesn’t disappoint in this new video in which he presents the story of the founder of electricity, Michael Faraday, with nothing more than the most organic of tools – the human voice.