Our Song of the Day is via a new video for ‘Lawless’, the 2nd single from Paper Beat Scissors‘ sophomore album Go On. A meditation on the ways we can delude ourselves and others without realising.

With a gig at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival Antun Opic releases the excellent Shovel My Coal EP. Both suggest a real step up and the music doesn’t disappoint.

On Samantha Crain’s latest album Under Branch & Thorn & Tree she dwells on the struggles of ordinary people, revealing a poetic beauty in the seemingly prosaic trials of everyday life.

Meg Baird has unveiled a new video for an a capella version of Even the Walls Don’t Want You To Go from her latest album Don’t Weigh Down The Light. It opens to a sunrise from a beautiful woodland home surrounded by foxgloves and wildflowers. It’s stunningly beautiful.

Dizraeli & The Small Gods call it a day and announce two very special farewell gigs. They are also performing at Belladrum, Beautiful Days, Green Man, Shambala and Together The People festivals in August.

Our Song of the Day comes from Ricky Damiani under the moniker of Mock Deer. Pork Chop Suits is the opening track off his new EP ‘How We Used to Live‘ which is released on Folklore Records.

Listen to the debut single from Low Moor Rising, a Leeds-based folk collective. The trio first got together to record a version of The Seeds of Love in response to Radio 2’s call for submissions in celebration of Cecil Sharp’s 2014 induction into the Hall of Fame.

Rob catches up with Emily Portman and she shares the creative process behind her latest album Coracle – inspiration coming from motherhood, trips to sacred sites around North Wales and meetings with a Liverpudlian poet.

With roots in Aberdeen and the unusual combination of piano and fiddle, Clype have released a stunning debut album of politically engaged songs, with a unique sound drawing from folk and jazz.

Featuring fellow Scots Steve Crawford and Pete Coutts, alongside German multi-instrumenatlist Sascha ‘Salossi’ Loss and Crawford’s long-term songwriting partner Davy Cattanach, Ballad of Crows has strong echoes of late 70s/early 80s Laurel Canyon and its attendant soft folk rock vibe. Certainly one to check.

In part 3 of our live review of Gate to Southwell Festival we have live footage from Clannad, Simpson-Cutting-Kerr, We Banjo 3, The Young’uns, The Tweed Project, Manran and more.

We continue our series of video sessions with Before The Gold Rush. The latest features Tom Hyatt, a singer/songwriter known on London circuits for dynamic performances, forthright lyrics and an expectation-defying musicality.