Following our recent premiere of ‘Sounds Like Help,’ the new single from Austin, Texas-based folk singer-songwriter Austin Basham, he found some time in his busy schedule to answer a few of our questions.

This duo’s positive drive and clear, confident and distinctive sense of musical identity are both introduced and confirmed here – which is not an easy feat for a debut album.

Today, Mairearad Green releases her new remix single ‘Island Folk’ as part of an exciting collaboration with Isle of Skye band, Niteworks, fusing Gaelic music and electronic influences. Watch the new video by Ullapool filmmakers Steven and Gabriel.

Watch the new video from Alt-country NYC singer-songwriter Don DiLego for his hit single ‘Idiot Heart’, taken from his latest album, Magnificent Ram A.

Stick in the Wheel are to release an album of newly curated recordings titled ‘From Here: English Folk Field Recordings.’ Featuring members of SITW, Jon Boden, John Kirkpatrick, Martin Carthy, Eliza Carthy, Fay Hield, Sam Lee, Jack Sharp (Wolf People) and many more. Pre-Order today!

Amanda Rheaume’s Holding Patterns is a terrific album, at the heart of which is the powerful ‘Red Dress’ on which she is joined by Juno Humanitarian Award winner Chantal Kreviazuk to tackle what she and others see as Canada’s cultural genocide. She tours the UK in January.

Formerly known as Alessi’s Ark but now flying under the shorter name of ALESSI, Alessi Laurent-Marke has revealed her video for ‘Wives’, a winsome assertion of female independence and the first single from her forthcoming new album.

Watch the new video from the two-time winner of Scots Singer of the Year, Siobhan Miller. This Bob Dylan cover features a host of special guests including Kris Drever and Louis Abbott and is taken from her forthcoming new album Strata on which she is joined by some of Scotland’s finest musicians.

Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith return with their second album, Night Hours. Backed by the members of folk trio Teyr, it is an album that is exhilaratingly diverse and full of impeccably crafted and beautifully realised songs.

The Unthanks have announced a 2017 tour titled: “The Unthanks Perform The Songs and Poems of Molly Drake” (mother of Nick Drake). The tour will be accompanied by the release of Diversions Vol 4. How Wild The Wind Blows.The project has the blessing of the Drake musical estate and the full blessing and enthusiasm of celebrated actress Gabrielle Drake (Molly’s daughter and Nick’s sister).

We have another new song to share from the forthcoming double album Vieilles Caniques et Nouvelles Caniques from Stanley Brinks aka André Herman Düne, he is joined by the Norwegian folk collective The Kaniks, this time stripped back to a two piece of fiddle and banjo, ‘The Old Time Kaniks.’

Samson is a purveyor of indelible lyrical imagery, both direct and opaque, real and imagined, drawing inspiration from a head-spinning range of subject matter…and a late contender for my favourite Canadian release of 2016.