Watch the latest video from Yorkshire lads Hope & Social for London, a track from their latest album ‘Feel,’ one that’s something of a departure. A more abstract approach; layering, adding, taking away.

The collaboration between Colorama and Plu has clearly been fruitful and it’s to be hoped that there’s more to come from the quartet. Bendith offers a beguiling mix of sounds and styles, effortlessly crossing musical borders to produce something as fresh and breezy as a warm summer’s day.

To celebrate The Crooked Brothers’ November UK Tour, we have a video premiere from the band for Windsor Beer, a mainstay of their live set.

Our Tune of the Day comes from Boston’s Katie McNally where she grew up playing for dances, leading sessions, and learning from older fiddlers. Her new trio is an innovative ensemble, as grounded in the tradition as it is ground-breaking.

The Young’Uns announce that they will once again don their festive jumpers for a lighthearted romp through Christmas’ past. Plus, we have David Eagle’s DJ set from FolkEast to share in which Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar join forces with Daft Punk, The Watersons share the stage with Van-Halen, the Prodigy embrace sea shanties…

With the current divisions tearing America apart, the Dive-By Truckers latest offering, American Band, isn’t just a bloody good album, it’s a bloody important one too.

Lead Me To The Water is Todd Carter’s second album and while not an immediate hook, the more you listen to it, the more it makes you want to drink deep.

Reaching back to their raw and energetic sessions for “Gets Loaded”, a critically lauded revisiting of the seminal The Velvet Underground album, Hollis Brown have re-teamed with Don DiLego for their brand new single, ‘Run Right To You’, due to be released on 7” vinyl on 28th October. On Tour now.

Jack Cheshire Band have announced their new single Visitations, which will be released on 25th November and is also our Song of the Day. A spiralling, multi-layered hallucination, it alludes to various themes; echoes from the past, transience, dreams & the supernatural.

In Widdershins, Highland airs, jigs, and reels are treated to a Nordic twist and the rebellious tendencies of both players are given free rein to delightful effect. It is an astounding album that deserves wide exposure, and a work for which Sarah-Jane Summers and Juhani Silvola should be resoundingly praised. Rarely is music such an overwhelming joy.

Daoirí described True Born Irishman as a continuation of his first album but the choice of songs, the intricacies, and energy of the arrangements, the quality of the recording all go to make it so much more…a force to be reckoned with on the Irish music scene.

Read our in-depth interview with Jim Moray as he talks about his past challenges and new album ‘Upcetera’… “Throughout our conversation, he repeatedly makes it clear that in his own mind, his previous career as a solo artist is now closed. ‘Upcetera’ is something different; a fresh start…a ‘New Chapter.’”