Described as a modern-day hippie-spiritual, the latest offering from Israel Nash is expansive and intimate, personal and universal, spawned of despair but fuelled by hope, it flies on a higher plane. Book a seat.
The pure joy that Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard found playing together is perfectly captured on a set of newly unearthed recordings, Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes, 1965-1969, out September 21 on Free Dirt Records.
Watch the latest video from Los Angeles-based Thumpasaurus for their new single ‘Flamingo Song’. Without a doubt, one of the best videos I’ve seen all year. The band are currently preparing for the release of their debut album The Book Of Thump, due July 24th.
Richard Thompson is set to return with 13 Rivers on September 14 2018, via Proper Records. The 13-song set is the Grammy-nominated artist’s first self-produced album in over a decade and was recorded 100% analogue in just ten days.
Cat Power, the vocalist, songwriter, musician, and producer Chan Marshall, will release her new album Wanderer on October 5th 2018, via Domino. Watch an introduction to Wanderer.
Acclaimed folk and jazz musician Ben Somers releases his brand new album, ‘Poor Stuart’ on 7 September 2018 – heavily influenced by American, Scandinavian and English roots music, watch Ben and his String band performing the title track live.
The Morning Star seems like a giant leap forward into the experimental mind of Bachman. It’s an album with a sharp tongue and among the beauty that shines through is plenty of unrest, unease and anger. It makes for powerful and original music and ends on a finale that will probably blow your mind.
Bridget St. John has announced a short tour of the UK and Ireland in September 2018. The tour begins with an appearance at Moseley Folk Festival and includes a gig at The John Peel Centre – It was the late John Peel that helped to launch Bridget’s musical career.
Award-winning traditional harpist and singer Rachel Newton is to co-curate a series of concerts at London’s Kings Place under the title of Trad. Reclaimed: Women in Folk. Names announced so far include The Shee Big Band, Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening and more.
As an instrument sounding a clarion call for self-awareness and awakening in a divisive world, Gilkyson is finely tuned and Secularia a career-defining musical apotheosis.
Marissa Nadler shares live acoustic video for the title track of her new album ‘For My Crimes’. The video was shot and edited in Los Angeles by a 19-year-old USC film student named Tyler Smith.
Watch the latest video from Treetop Flyers for their new single “Sweet Greens and Blues” which is also our Song of the Day. The track is taken from their forthcoming eponymous third album, due out on 24 August via Loose.
