The changing moods of Sam Kelly and the Lost Boys‘ “The Wishing Tree” form a big part of its charm. From the thought-provoking lyrics to the musicianship, you’d be hard pushed to find the merest chink in their armour and here they demonstrate that to perfection.

Stick In The Wheel announce a new mixtape release, Tonebeds for Poetry, with first track The Cuckoo. The album explores lost civilisations, inertia, beats music, sludge, drone, glitch and the sounds of the city, held together with ancient word-glue, repurposed to deliver vital, urgent messages for now.

Arriving ten years after The Faux Paws first got together, this debut may have been long in the gestation, but the experience and musical wisdom accumulated in that time has clearly paid off for a quietly unassuming but highly infectious album.

Our Song of the Day comes from the legendary Mike Edison, noted New York journalist, musician, author, and provocateur who teams up with Andalusian Troubadours Guadalupe Plata for an epic telling of the story of John Henry.

As a project, this Sonafric safari is a triumph in unearthing and presenting the music and musicians of Yaoundé’s underground music scene of some 50 years ago.  The legacy offered here on Cameroon Garage Funk illustrates the timelessness of the music and is highly recommended.

Martha Tilston has written, directed and stars in a film called ‘The Tape’ in which she plays a disillusioned songwriter drifting through life…until she finds inspiration at an atmospheric Cornish cliff-top house and records an album. Watch the film trailer.

Steve Gunn shares his new single ‘Circuit Rider’ from his forthcoming new album ‘Other You’ and announces UK & European solo live dates for February 2022.

Dan Haywood announces ‘Country Dustbin’, a one-track album & book of poetry that attempts to come to terms with the clutter of a life in the 20th & 21st century…that walks a tightrope across the joyful, the sad, the wondrous, the banal.

Watch the latest video from Clare Sands for her new single Iontach Bheith Beo on which she joins forces with friend, composer, and musician Brídín. A driving, pulsating, celebration of life, for those that have gone before us, and those yet to come.

Ahead of the release of Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys new album ‘The Wishing Tree’ this Friday, watch their video for Nature’s Law which is also our Song of the Day.

Recorded at a countryside retreat in Kildare with Myles O’Reilly, Rónán Ó Snodaig’s Tá Go Maith is an album not to be rushed but instead presents an opportunity to slow down and embrace its evocative gentle mood and positivity.

Today sees the release of a new single from Danny George Wilson. ‘Heaven For Hiding’, finds him further exploring his colourful new direction. Quirky, experimental and totally infectious.