Award winning Film documentary Bayou Maharajah which tells the extraordinary story of New Orleans rhythm and blues musician James Carroll Booker III will be screened across the UK and released on DVD for the first time.

Ana Egge, joined by Denmark’s The Sentimentals, releases her strongest offering to date with ‘Say That Now’, an album that tackles some heavy topics along the way with some powerful electric folk-rock.

Watch the video premiere from Stockholm-based trio Barbarisms for ‘Heaviest Breather’, their new single and opening track from their latest album Browser. They play a Rough Trade East instore this Wednesday 29th June.

Best known as a member of The Magic Numbers, Michele Stodart’s second solo album ‘Pieces’ is a far more rootsier offering and is, both individually and in sum, a thing of perfection.

The Silver Lake Chorus is one of the most unexpectedly contemporary-sounding records you are likely to hear this year, featuring some truly top drawer songs, made to measure, by some of the finest songwriters around.

Watch this short film on English psych-folk musician Simon Finn, a revealing and moving insight into his early life leading up to the release ‘Pass the Distance’ and the time he spent in North America before returning to the UK after 35 years.

With a tour of Canada just finished FRUk catch up with the UK’s finest clawhammer banjo player Dan Walsh. He talks about his music as well as his work with the Live Music Now scheme.

Watch the new animated video from Neko Case, K.D. Lang and Laura Veirs’ for ‘Atomic Number’, inspired by a man searching for a soul mate with the same atomic number, 42. 

Dr. Ralph Stanley, one of the key figures who helped establish and develop bluegrass has died at the age of 89. His family revealed that he had been fighting an ongoing battle with skin cancer and died peacefully in his sleep.

Lloyd Kahn is well known for inspiring many people the world over to build their own homes. This short film profiles his move from the geodesic homes he became famous for in the ’70s to the less complicated. The one thing they all share is proof that a home is more than just a shelter.

Lou Rhodes shares new single ‘All I Need’ taken from her forthcoming album ‘theyesandeye’ an album embroidered with a rich palette of stark piano, vocal layering, transcendent harp and strings all wrapped up within a heady smattering of vintage reverbs.

In part 1 of his review of this year’s Gate to Southwell Johnny shares his highlights which kick off with a North American flavour: Bob Dylan’s 75th birthday concert, Hayseed Dixie, The Ooks of Hazzard, The Corn Potato String Band, Flats and Sharps as well as Canadian singer Meaghan Blanchard and Acadian trio Vishtèn.