FOLLOW THE SUN (mid May on Anthology) collects outsider pop, folk and psych from Australia in the 1960s and 70s. Check out Mata Hari’s ‘Easy’ and Megan Sue Hicks for a flavour.

Introducing: folk singer Sergio Beercock who is about to embark on his debut UK tour. Although born in Hull he moved to Sicily, Italy as a child where he recently released his debut album Wollow. Watch the video for his lead single ‘Battle for Attention’.

“We gathered a host of musicians and writers, artists and scholars, weirdos and generally adventurous people to set the James Joyce’s bizarre novel, Finnegans Wake, to music.” We talk to Derek Pyle, the Project Director and give you a unique first listen of several tracks from the new release.

Listen to One and Only, a new song from Boston-based folk singer-songwriter Avi Jacob, taken from his forthcoming EP ‘Surrender’. The new EP was produced by Simone Felice and features members of the Felice Brothers playing on it.

If Chicago-based singer-songwriter Tyler Sjöström is an unfamiliar name to you then I will bet money this will change on the release of his new EP Bones, Hold Me Up from which we take our Song of the Day with lead single Holding On.

Tom Armstrong’s The Sky Is An Empty Eye is the first of several reissues planned by Tompkins Square of full albums by artists featured on their recent double-LP, Imaginational Anthem vol. 8: The Private Press which we reviewed on FRUK.

Listen to Bound to Ride, the new single from Atlanta Bluesman Moses Nesh which features on his new album No Labor-Saving Machine coming this Friday, April 21 on vinyl on Keeled Scales.

Rain Dries Your Eyes is a sizeable and well-chosen anthology from Jason McNiff. A timely reminder of the talents of one of our most underappreciated musicians and singers – there is a clarity of purpose here that is rarely found, let alone maintained throughout a decade or so of music making.

Emily Barker has unveiled her new video for a heartbreaking new song titled Over My Shoulder that she wrote with one of Britain’s finest songwriters, Boo Hewerdine. The song features on her forthcoming new album Sweet Kind of Blue.

Despite many of the songs being cloaked in darkness and despair, The Harmed Brothers self-titled release on Fluff and Gravy is a rewarding listen. As they say, “sometimes the rotten truth makes for a real good time.”

Drag City share further Palace videos including Horses which stars a very young Will Oldham and a stop-animation for ‘Come In’. Both songs feature on Lost Blues and Other Songs which is available as a double LP, CD and Digital via Drag City.

Newcastle’s experimental folk maverick Richard Dawson announces new album Peasant and shares video for Ogre. The album “will grab newcomers to Dawson’s work by the scruff of the neck and refuse to let them go until they have signed a pledge of life-long allegiance.”