Analog Africa’s latest compilation explores the rebajada scene of Mexico, unearthing and making available musical treasures deserving of a worldwide audience. The album includes a riveting history of Mexican pitch control, (Radson tube amps, heavy-duty Garrard decks), alongside superb archive photographs.

Ink of the Rosy Morning showcases the dexterity of Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage’s guitar playing and the unaffected beauty of their voices, both individually and in harmony. This is their most immediate, beguiling and, dare I say it, finest work yet.

The Sidmouth Folk Festival have announced a special tribute concert to Norma Waterson led by Martin and Eliza Carthy and featuring a number of special guests and good friends.

Paradise of Bachelors are to reissue two of Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band’s long out-of-print albums from the early 1980s. Remastered from the original recordings and featuring expanded artwork, Smokin the Dummy (1980) and Bloodlines (1983) are both out May 6th, 2022.

Our Song of the Day is a duet from Lady Nade and Boo Hewerdine called ‘Echo’, a heartfelt and emotional song on which their delivery is sublime. Watch the accompanying video.

Watch the new video from Heligoland and She Owl for their cover of John Martyn’s “Please Fall In Love With Me’ which appeared on his album “Glorious Fool. It’s a song that conveys a message of universal love, much needed nowadays.

M Ross Perkins creates the kind of masterpieces that could only come from one mind. E Pluribus M Ross is the most unified collection of lines and licks you’re likely to hear this year.

On his new single ‘Atomized’, Andrew Bird considers the words of Joan Didion and the proof that things fall apart. Bird brings it all up to date in an incredibly slick monochromatic video directed by Matthew Daniel Siskin.

Taken from her forthcoming album ’Stolen Time’, Canadian singer/songwriter Abigail Lapell has shared a video for her moving new single ‘Land of Plenty’, which is also our Song of the Day.

Dean Owens and filmmaker Ruth Barrie have put together a video for “We Need Us” to show support and solidarity with the people of  Ukraine and to highlight the Ukraine Emergency Appeal.

Anglo-Irish quartet The Haar, featuring Adam Summerhayes, Cormac Byrne, Murray Grainger and Molly Donnery, return in April with their highly anticipated second album Where Old Ghosts Meet. Watch their latest video for album single Wild Rover, due for release on St Patrick’s Day.

Recorded in 2011, ANTI- Records have announced ‘Carry Me Home’, a new album that showcases the music of Mavis Staples and Levon Helm. Watch the video for lead single “You Got To Move” which finds Staples’ and Helm’s bands operating at the peak of their powers.