Among the many highlights of this year’s Celtic Connections is Sinner’s Shrine, a collaboration between Scotland’s Dean Owens and legendary Calexico frontman Joey Burns. Listen to their superb new single ‘New Mexico’.
Taken from their upcoming album Somewhere, out February 5, via Keeled Scales and Run For Cover Records, watch the accompanying lyric video for Sun June’s latest single ‘Everything I had’.
An Bhuatais & The Meaning of Life exemplifies the sean nós tradition and beautifully continues it along its path. By all means, dig deeper, read the superb accompanying booklet, but first of all, enter the space and just listen. Excellent.
John Smith shares powerful new single ‘Friends’, a precursor to a larger body of work from him this year, said to be his most captivating, vulnerable music of his career to date.
As his song put it, JT spent his life Looking For A Place To Land, this magnificent album from Steve Earle finds him and his legacy safe in his father’s loving arms.
The Celtic Connections online festival will begin one week today. Across 19 days, the festival will present over 30 online performances between Friday 15th January and Tuesday 2nd February 2021.
Vagabon teams up with Courtney Barnett for a cover inspired by Karen Dalton’s version of ‘Reason to Believe’, originally written and recorded by Tim Hardin in 1965. It’s a fitting tribute to Dalton and equally powerful.
Big Thief’s Buck Meek is set to release his new album, Two Saviors next Friday. Today, he shares his new single/video, “Candle,” co-written with Adrianne Lenker.
Malian kora virtuoso Ballaké Sissoko is set to release his new album “Djourou” on April 09, 2021 via NØ FØRMAT featuring Camille, Feu! Chatterton, Oxmo Puccino, Patrick Messina, Piers Faccini, Salif Keita, Sona Jobarteh and Vincent Segal.
Bob Fish chats with Chris Salveter of Judson Claiborne – he is able to use his voice and musicality to entrance and enthrall simply by looking at the world and letting us know what he thinks. That is a remarkable gift.
This week it was announced that Galway artist Niamh Regan’s ‘Hemet’ album is one of ten nominated for the prestigious RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year Awards 2020.
Listen to the new cover singles from Bill Callahan and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Lou Reed’s ‘Rooftop Garden’ featuring George Xylouris and Little Feat’s ‘I’ve Been The One’ featuring Meg Baird.
