Heading this year’s Underneath the Stars (20th – 22nd July 2018 Cinderhill Farm, Yorkshire) line-up are Grammy Award-winning songwriter and activist Steve Earle with his band The Dukes, as well as Barnsley born and bred Kate Rusby and more.

You Are Wolf, the alt-folk project of award-winning composer and vocalist Kerry Andrew has shared a new video for Breathe In Breathe Out from her latest album KELD which celebrates her love for wild swimming.

Avi Jacob’s new EP “Surrender” feels like a breakthrough release, with astute songwriting, inspired vocals and subtle arrangements he stands out from the pack. It packs a punch and shows an artist with unlimited potential. With a full album in the works, Jacob is someone to keep an eye on.

This is Marina’s third album, a gathering together of reworkings of past singles and previously unavailable material that again serves to make you thankful she finally got round to committing her music to disc. 

The strongly individual blend of instrumental colours continues, all surfacing through the texture in various delightful and surprising permutations over the course of this 40th Anniversary (Two-Score) album from Blowzabella.

Will Newsome has released a free EP titled Old Skin. It features a beautiful track called Empty Sea (also our song of the day) which has been brought to life by Paolo Russo in a stunningly beautiful and imaginative animation. Watch it here.

Norwich-based nine-piece The Vagaband return this month with a new album – Something Wicked This Way Comes. While there’s a mass of fine influences at play beneath the surface, their feet are planted firmly in British roots rock soil. Wickedly good.

This year’s Purbeck Valley Folk Festival (16-19th August 2018) is looking to be one of their best lineups yet. Beth Orton is the latest headliner announced who will be performing alongside the likes of Richard Thompson, Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys, Elephant Sessions, Trad Attack! and many more. Watch our video preview.

To celebrate the re-issue of Tom Waits’ Elektra Asylum Records on CD and Vinyl, he has personally curated a 76-song playlist spanning his entire career. You can now explore Waits’ many styles of storytelling and heartbreaking melodies via Spotify and Apple Music.

Morning Haikus, Afternoon Ragas is an album of poetry in guitar music. The space around Buck Curran’s music allows it to grow and change, to become part of the landscape yet also allows you to become part of it as well. Join in.

While it’s unfair to single out any one band to carry forward the torch that Planxty lit all those years ago, the music Pat Broaders, Liz Knowles and Kieran O’Hare are making can certainly hold its head high in such exalted company. The Joyful Hour gives out its joy in abundance and deserves a place in anyone’s collection.

Watch the stunning new video for Enough, the new single from Brie Capone, a refreshing young singer whose soulful voice will stop you in your tracks. In this intimate film by Peter Brownlee, Brie Capone invites the listener to visually experience her inner dialogue of disillusion.