Our tune of the day is from Twelve Hides (Ben Tweddell) with the added bonus of some psychedelic electric guitar from Buck Curran of Arborea as well as Tiffany Williams on vocals.

Our Song of the Day is ‘Bluest Bird’ from Allysen Callery which is taken from her forthcoming new album The Song the Songbird Sings. The album will be released via Jellyphant Records (date to be announced)

Alasdair Roberts reveals new song from his forthcoming self-released ‘Missed Flights and Fist Fights’ with Brad Gallagher and Warren William Lowman (also featuring Matt McGinn). Listen to Rocking the Cradle here.

The sheer ebullient inventiveness of the duo’s musical settings, their committed sense of fun, their consummate, enviable musicality, their serious ability to grab your attention and carry you through the experience – all these qualities are faithfully conveyed in this lovingly crafted exceptional recording.

Stanley Brinks & The Wave Pictures’ latest offering, ‘My Ass’, is a powerfully honest album which, when played back-to-back with Gin, creates an almost perfect soundtrack to the humdrum, everyday existence of many people, to the ups and downs of lives lived to the fullest extent possible and, for that alone it is definitely something to be cherished.

Darren Hayman is to release his first purely solo album on November 6 via Fika Recordings. The album, titled Florence, is named after the city in which it was written and recorded. You can listen to ‘Nuns Run The Apothecary’ here.

Kurt Vile has unveiled his new animated video for ‘Life Like This’, trippy and surreal, from undersea leviathans to psychedelic landscapes and a gorilla drummer…watch it here

Following the release of Iron & Wine’s Archive Series Volume No. 1, Volume No. 2 is now upon us featuring two covers including Neil Young’s Albuquerque. Listen to it here and read our recent interview with Sam Beam.

Following the recent announcement of Joanna Newsom’s forthcoming LP Divers out on October 23, 2015, UK and European fans won’t have long to wait before getting a chance to see her perform as she announced her UK and European dates kicking off the end of October.

Elle Osborne has announced the release of her new album It’s Not Your Gold Shall Me Entice featuring Alasdair Roberts along with Alex Neilson and Mike Hastings of Trembling Bells. Listen to the opening track – I Don’t Like Sundays.

Scotlands most revered jazzist Bill Wells has assembled an all star cast from the weirder corners of the indie world including Deerhoof, Yo La Tengo, Isobel Campbell, Norman Blake, Bridget St John, to twist your favourite nursery rhymes into new compositions revealing the dark, violent and often hilarious message beneath the surface…

Teach them young – Light in the Attic and Third Man Records to release new children’s compilation that comes with it’s own turntable and features the likes of Vashti Bunyan, Woody Guthrie, Donovan, Harry Nilsson, Jerry Garcia.