The Queen of Hearts, the debut album from Offa Rex, a new project featuring Olivia Chaney and The Decemberists. It draws largely on traditional English-Irish-Scottish repertoire to create a transatlantic musical conversation that flirts with psychedelia and folk rock.
Taken from their latest album ‘Fences’ watch Bombadil in a live and intimate session performing ‘Perfect’ at the Museum of Life & Science in Durham, North Carolina. Fences is out now on Ramseur Records.
If Lindsay Straw’s debut album, “sounds like no one but herself,” then her second album ‘The Fairest Flower of Womankind’ imparts that authenticity to the voices of women whose stories speak to a new generation.
Anna Coogan’s ‘The Lonely Cry of Space & Time’ isn’t an album you approach on a casual basis, you need to work with it to form a relationship, but once you do, it’s one that will last.
Aizle are one of the latest among the new crop of exciting young folk/traditional bands from Manchester’s thriving Celtic music scene. They definitely offer something different as their classical and jazz backgrounds meld with a hugely enjoyable bunch of Irish and Scottish traditional tunes.
With its beautiful Clyde coast setting, a community at its heart, the very best Scottish music and the added attraction of the finest Scottish food, drink and art; Argyll Gathering 2017 is set to become one of Scotland’s most memorable annual festivals.
We talk to Twelfth Day about their new bold album Cracks in the Room, their writing process, working with Chris Wood and gender discrimination in the music industry. They are on tour now in Germany and return to the UK in June.
Watch Carrie & Lowell Live, an audio and visual document of Sufjan Steven’s November 9, 2015, performance at North Charleston Performing Arts Center in South Carolina.
Where the River Meets the Road is an impressive and affectionate showcase for the songwriting talents of all these West Virginians (including Tim O’Brien himself) alongside his own considerable gifts as a talented musician and interpreter of songs.
Watch the latest video from MADAM (aka Sukie Smith). Three Sixes took the best part of a year to complete, was Directed by Richard Morel and was shot in part on a spaceship he built in his house.
Inver, the debut album by three-piece ambient folk band HAV, has been slowly brewing for three years. Accordingly, the music they make together proves to be a slow-burning pleasure. A profoundly moving and expressive album that is the perfect antidote to quick fixes and empty gestures.
Watch Children (Don’t You Know), the new single from Katie Spencer, a progressive-folk singer-songwriter/guitarist inspired by the people and her surroundings in the Yorkshire countryside. Taken from her debut Mini-Album ‘Good Morning Sky’.
