Song, By Toad Records announce lineup for Pale Imitation Festival in Edinburgh: Including Rob St. John, eagleowl and the Save As Collective feat: Jonnie Common and more.

At a time when individuality in society comes at a price…Little Arrow rail against mediocrity with an irresistibly fierce passion. The result is ‘Old Ink’, one of the most intoxicatingly original records you’re likely hear this year.

Christopher Paul Stelling, whose Labor Against Waste we recently reviewed, had a surprise in store for more than just the audience at this year’s Newport Folk Festival.

Our Song of the Day comes from Jono McCleery with a cover of Robert Wyatt’s ‘Age of Self’. The track is taken from his forthcoming new album Pagodes. Wyatt released the song as a single in 1984 to raise funds for the miners strike. John Tams was on the b-side.

Departures is the debut release from London-based quintet Owl & Mouse, fronted by Brisbane singer-songwriter and ukulele player Hannah Botting.

Gilmore & Roberts have unveiled their new video for Cecilia which features on their forthcoming new album Conflict Tourism. The album was produced by Mark Tucker and features Matt Downer (Jamie Smith’s Mabon), Phil Henry (Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin) and James ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson (Bonnie Raitt).

Following the release of her new album ‘Don’t Weigh Down the Light’ Meg Baird has announced a run of European live shows in September with Great Lake Swimmers. Plus listen to Good Directions from her new album.

In association with Soundcrash we have a pair of tickets to giveaway to Portico’s unique and intimate two night residency at the ICA 25th and 26th of November 2015.

Oddity, the debut album release from West Midlands based band Bethan and the Morgans shows great promise and the potential to strike on something demanding wider scale attention sooner rather than later.

Tender Gold and Gentle Blue is the latest offering from Red River Dialect, a band formed in Falmouth, Cornwall, in 2009. In the words of M.C. Taylor “Theirs is a focused longing, a confusion of soul, a visionary lamentation”.

Our Song of the Day is from a video of Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash performing ‘One Too Many Mornings’. It was recorded in Nashville in 1969.

Along with John Leventhal at the SummerTyne Americana Festival, Rosanne Cash demonstrated just how important the aural traditions inherent in folk and roots music still are to modern song writing. She can certainly count herself part of that ongoing continuum of music with its roots planted firmly in the soil of the American South.