Farmer (FRMR) is a songwriter, poet, and verser from Desertmartin, Northern Ireland. He talks to us about the story behind the song Inver, taken from his new record Amelanchier, due for release this summer.

Watch David Hockney’s interview with Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art – with this being Mental Health Awareness Week with a focus on kindness, his message was one of positivity and optimism – The world is very, very beautiful if you look at it.

Keep On Running is the debut offering from Joe Edwards who hails from Devizes in rural Wiltshire. While it’s a well-travelled path, it’s a well-played, engagingly sung and assured calling card for future progress.

Brian Ó hEadhra and Fiona MacKenzie return with Tuath…a tribute to the Gaelic Northlands and their peoples, an amalgam of their culture, their history and their mythologies. …a breath-taking and hugely enjoyable album.

Recorded at home during the lockdown, Howling at the Sun feels like the much-needed companion to a season of uncertainty and isolation: it is by turns sad, cheering and reflective, and full of the melodic inventiveness, the freshness and, ultimately, the positivity we have come to expect from Randolph’s Leap.

Despite being a far from straightforward journey, Lankum did finally make it to Washington D.C. to perform on Bob Boilen’s Tiny Desk Concert. They put on a fantastic show, performing three songs from their latest album The Livelong Day.

Steve Earle’s Ghosts of West Virginia draws on 2010’s Upper Big Branch coal mine explosion which, killing 29 miners, was one of the worst mining disasters in American history…The echoes of these ghosts haunt long after the album ends.

While Look Long reflects on the many changes in the world, Indigo Girls are still the bar-band they claim to be at heart, you really should grab a beer and celebrate their return to the saloon.

Long after the scent of patchouli has faded, Ripley Johnson’s Rose City Band is still able to provide the soundtrack for both old and new generations of cosmic travellers. With Summerlong he has proved that even in the dark days there is always hope for rebirth close at hand.

Road-tested troubadour Greg Klyma who promises to “make the world a better place one song at a time” has shared a video for his new lockdown inspired anthem ‘Coffee and Weed’.

Last night, Jim Moray was due to be at the Royal Albert Hall for the Sea Shambles. Due to lockdown, a re-jigged online event went ahead in its place. Watch him performing ‘Jim Jones In Botany Bay’.

Following on from the success of his stunning 2018 debut, Dutch singer-songwriter Sean Christopher announces the details behind his highly-anticipated follow-up Wander, and shares new video for his latest single ‘Indigo Blue’.