The Amazing Devil are a new arrival on the alternative folk scene, built around the core duo of Irish-born actor-musician Joey Batey and Madeleine Hyland. Love Run is one of the year’s most exhilarating, exciting and visceral debuts, they deserve to be huge.
Our Song of the Day comes from Sam Brookes performing Pacify with the London Contemporary Voices for a Headphones Session. This is a new track of Sam’s not heard before which will be part of a new project of music coming out very soon.
We catch up with those northern folk experimentalist Harp and a Monkey to talk about their latest War Stories project. They also share some of their personal highlights from a tour which saw them perform in some very unusual locations, including bomb craters on moors.
Eight years after their debut we are finally treated to a follow-up from Rusalnaia – Sharron Kraus and Gillian Chadwick… one of the most stunning albums I have heard all year, and one whose power remains long after the songs have faded.
Northern Ireland based five-piece traditional Irish band Connla recently released their debut album River Waiting. Watch their latest video for Daily Growing and catch them on their UK tour in September.
North Carolina’s bluegrass duo, Mandolin Orange announce new album Blindfaller and share their first single Wildfire ”a country dirge with soulful washes of pedal steel and mandolin, the song details the lingering, present-day devastation of slavery and the Civil War.
The Henry Girls have shared their latest video for Falling in Love Again, a song from their recently released EP Sketches. It was filmed around their homeland of Malin, Co.Donegal and also in the Men’s Shed in Moville.
Chicago born singer-songwriter Michael McDermott takes full advantage of a new clarity and focus to follow-up with his 10th solo album Willow Springs, his first in four years. It features some of his strongest material to date.
Harrington’s music packs a considerable, and quite heady, emotional charge. The Diver’s Curse certainly repays your very closest attention, and its meditative, insightful poetic inventions are destined to haunt you for a long time.
We have a special video session from Ewan McLennan which commemorates the 80th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War today. We also have news of his new album with Guardian journalist and bestselling author George Monbiot.
A jam-packed mix of folkie goodness from The Driftwood Manor, The FLK, The Memory Band, Incredible String Band, Fay Hield, Jim Moray, Jon Boden, The Owl Service, The Furrow Collective, The Woodbine And Ivy Band and many more!
We have a track premiere from BJ Barham, the front man of the increasingly popular US Americana band American Aquarium. O’ Lover, is taken from his forthcoming debut solo effort Rockingham, due for release on the 22nd July via At The Helm Records. UK Tour kicks off this weekend!
