Listen to Lucinda Williams new single ‘You Can’t Rule Me’. It opens her new album ‘Good Souls Better Angels’ which is being called her boldest and most direct album to date.

Experimental song and storytelling trio Harp & a Monkey have announced a new single to promote their forthcoming spring and summer tour – and we have a video premiere!

We chat to master fiddler and our Artist of the Month Sam Sweeney. He talks about the crafting of his second album Unearth Repeat, his loud violin and why withholding information can be beneficial.

On St. David’s Day, Paul Armfield shares a new song and accompanying print – each song includes a linocut of a plant considered native to the UK. As today is St. David’s Day it seemed appropriate that we share this one of the Daffodil.

The Shee head out on tour in May and are to be joined by Scottish-Icelandic percussionist, Signy Jakobsdottir, who is is a new permanent member of the band. The tour kicks off on May 6th at Edinburgh Tradfest.

Folkeast Announces Second Wave Of Artists including The Unthanks who will headline the final night, a Canadian contingent including Irish Mythen, The Once and Small Glories, plus Ireland’s Daoiri Farrell and Jarlath Henderson – plus MG Boulter, Jimmy Aldridge and Sid Goldsmith, Three Cane Whale and lots more.

Watch the stunning video for ‘The Oak’, the beautiful new single from Serious Child which was filmed at Petworth Park, West Sussex. It features on his forthcoming second album “Time in the Trees”, the result of a year he spent in the Sussex woods.

Different Geographies, the new album from Collectress, is an exploration of both traditions and technology, a fusion of neo-classical chamber pop and radical experimentation. It is varied and connected, intuitive and vibrant, and draws together experiences and influences from across the globe.

Brigid Mae Power announces third studio album ‘Head Above The Water’ which hints at what the label is calling a more diverse, different, a bigger canvas, with broader brushstrokes…listen to lead single ‘On a City Night’.

Watch “Three Line Whip”, the new single from Bolton’s Two Hat’s Blues Band which takes a peasant’s eye view of the British political circus and straps it to a booming backbeat, mesmeric chanting, and a hefty tip of the flat cap to the late, great Nina Simone.

Lau announces new live album ‘Unplugged’ and tour. Kris Drever, Aidan O’Rourke and Martin Green recreate and rearrange material from across their catalogue for the Unplugged tour. The album highlights about an hour of raw, stripped-down Lau performance, with no studio overdubs or re-recording.

Lyrically and musically The Hanging Stars use A New Kind Of Sky to chart a new course through the folk-rock minefield. Along the way, they establish a new pathway to the future by revisiting but not idolizing the past.