Irish band The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock announce the debut performance of ‘Lockout’ in Dublin. Joining them at the Hangar will be 18 musicians along with the legendary Dónal Lunny. Watch their new video performance of Lockout Movement 1.

We have the great pleasure of bringing you an exclusive first listen of the new album from Stanley Brinks and The Wave Pictures. Listen to ‘My Ass’ in full before its release this Friday 2nd October.

Blow Out The Moon is a well-chosen selection of some of the less well-known traditional folk songs, presented with immaculate arrangements, precision musicianship and flawless harmonies. It makes the ideal companion to their debut album.

We have an exclusive track premiere from Brooklyn based Americana folk-blues band, Pete Lanctot and the Stray Dogs who have just headlined the Brooklyn Americana Music Festival. Walk Right is the final track from their forthcoming new album “No Sign of Love or Farewell,” out October 18th.

We join Jonathan Day on the road for a series of guest posts written during his Atlantic Drifter launch tour. We join him as he arrives in China to perform in Gangzhou and Shenzhen.

Two Universes is the latest offering from Feufollet , a young five piece band hailing from Southwest Louisiana playing a lively gumbo of Cajun, honky-tonk, classic country, rock and pop.

Our Song of the Day comes via the new video from Norfolk-based singer/songwriter Holly Lerski for Oh Atoms, Oh Molecules, taken from her latest album The Wooden House.

In part 2 of our live review of this year’s Wickham Festival we take in the Moulettes, Kathryn Tickell and The Side, Eliza Carthy and The Wayward Band, Seth Lakeman, Billy Bragg, The Hut People, Megson and more.

As part of their ongoing project to mark the centenary of the First World War, the northern folk experimentalists Harp and a Monkey have released a new video today – Raise A Glass To Danny is a tribute to Daniel Laidlaw, “the Piper of Loos”.

We have a spectacular and beautiful video premiere from Heg & The Wolf Chorus for The White Witch, the the first single to be taken from their forthcoming debut album “Raising the Fires” which we’re really looking forward to hearing more from.

Both haunting and moody, Alex Roberts sixth album, The Daemon & The Eidolon, illustrates why he’s held in such esteem. It also underscores his immersion in the sound of traditional English folk-blues and prime influences of John Renbourn, Bert Jansch and almost certainly John Martyn.

Beyond the Fell Wall is a new book by Richard Skelton… a distillation of his thoughts and observations from his brief tenure spent living in a small valley, high in the Furness hills of Cumbria, informed by his daily wanderings along its network of paths, the banks of its streams and the edges of its walls.