The tension has been building with the promise of this new video from The Staves for Tired as F**k, a fan favourite that has featured in their live set for the past year. It features on their new double A Side and coincides with their upcoming tour.
Madrid-based Track Dogs have announced a series of dates in the UK and Ireland. The band’s last album Serenity Sessions featured in Neil’s Top Ten Albums of 2016 so well worth checking out if you get the chance.
The years covered by these recordings were a golden period for Old Crow Medicine Show. For anyone who wants to know what fuelled the, now widespread, musical chimaera, “modern old time”, this is essential listening.
Our song of the Day comes from Durham, North Carolina singer and guitarist Jake Xerxes Fussell. Furniture Man is taken from his second full-length album, What in the Natural World, an album that explores the traditional songs from the American South, due out on 31st March via Paradise of Bachelors.
Jesca Hoop has shared her new video for Memories Are Now, the title track from her critically acclaimed new album, available worldwide on Sub Pop from tomorrow. The mesmeric video was directed by award-winning animator/illustrator Annlin Chao
On Mike Grogan’s ‘Too Many Ghosts’ he is joined by the likes of Phil Beer and Miranda Sykes. The message, like the music, is simple, direct and clear. And both all the more effective for it.
The nominations for the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards have been announced. Along with the Lifetime Achievement Award and entry into the Hall of Fame the lineup for Awards night at the Royal Albert Hall has also been revealed.
A new eclectic mix featuring new tracks from Luke Daniels, Emma Gatrill, Yorkston Thorne Khan as well as music from Ursina, Nadine Khouri, Adam Torres, Sarah Olivier, Suzanne Schmid, Keto, Various Guises and more.
Watch the video premiere for Rooftops, the new single from Cumbrian-born singer-songwriter Laura James. The video explores a concept centred on an apocalyptic walk through rural Northeast Scotland which she explains more on here.
Our Song of the Day comes from From Benjamin William Pike’s new album “A Burdensome Year’. Watch him performing ‘Keep Me in Your Mind,’ recorded at Caribou Recording Studios with producer Mattie Foulds.
Thomas shares his Top 10 Albums of 2016 including Yorkston/Thorne/Khan, Josephine Foster, A Dyjecinski, Richard Moult, Fred Thomas, Seamus Cater, Rusalnaia, The Burning Hell, Lady Maisery & The Furrow Collective.
Featuring Karen Matheson, Julie Fowlis, The Kaela Rowan Band and more, Paul McGeechan presented Celtic Connections with a unique and captivating performance, successfully bringing the splendour of Starless to a live, and thoroughly appreciative, audience.
