Featuring a host of artists from Second Language, Drifts & Flurries is a sonically varied but thematically coherent album which at every turn is ambitious and surprising, always in tune with the wintry landscape but also with the interior landscapes of the human mind, which can be just as cold and just as beautiful.

On April 11, Jimbo Mathus and Andrew Bird will perform These 13 as part of a special concert they’re live-streaming from Ojai, CA. It includes early access to a Director’s Cut of ‘These 13’ Documentary.

Recorded over the course of a year in his Texas studio, Israel Nash’s ‘Topaz’ is a captivating album that runs the gamut from the personal to the political, the urgent to the dreamily laid back.

Varo are to perform a live set online from two iconic traditional pubs in Dublin, The Cobblestone, Smithfield, and Walsh’s Pub, Stoneybatter, as part of St. Patrick’s Festival 2021.

Watch the video for Brian Finnegan’s excellent new single Two Trees / Tony, a superb tribute to a remarkable man who’s also Brian’s neighbour. There’s more to this fella than meets the eye.

Better known for her work with Wilde Roses and the Mediaeval Baebes, Anna Tam’s debut album ‘Anchoress’ is a beautifully produced and arresting listen. Those who love traditional songs and tunes delivered with confidence and expertise won’t go wrong here. A delightful and entirely enchanting album.

Join Rough Trade Books this evening as they celebrate International Women’s Day in a special free event with Award-winning indie bookshop Forum Books – featuring Martha Sprackland, Briony Bax and more with poetry, prose and conversation.

Singer-songwriter Ben de la Cour’s Shadow Land is to get a European release next month. Watch the video for the title track…a song he wrote shortly after getting out of rehab…and wasn’t feeling too hot.

Born and raised in Lombardy-speaking Rivoltano, double-bass player Roberto Cassini now calls Perthshire home. Ansema We Stand finds him combining the sounds of his homeland with Scotland, aided by the likes of Anna Massie, Ross Ainslie, Hamish Napier and Greg Lawson. It’s a musical experience that will repay a little patience with huge pleasure.

Featuring MG Boulter, Dean Owens, Katherine Priddy, Jon Boden, Las Lloronas, Andrew Bird & Jimbo Mathus, The Knights Project, The Magpie Arc, Sunny War, Bill Callahan & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Lewis Barfoot and more.

For their latest single, a cover of John Prine’s “She Is My Everything”, Bill Callahan and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy are joined by Sir Richard Bishop. Watch the accompanying video – sure to bring a smile to any face.

Todd Snider finds his groove on new album ‘First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder’ – more funk than folk, more Sly Stone than singer-songwriter. Check out his new video for Sail On, My Friend.