Adam Holmes & The Embers continue to follow up the success of last year’s debut album, Heirs & Graces, with live dates up and down the country. On Friday night it was the chance for a Glasgow audience to enjoy the band, thanks to The Fallen Angels Club at the thriving Centre for Contemporary Arts; with up and coming solo performer Genesee providing the opening set.

Having made her mark with The Duke & The King, Simi Stone taps into her Upstate Catskill roots for a debut album of bright, vivid soulful sounds as fresh as the sun-kissed mountain air. Plus watch the premiere of her new video for ‘Got It All’.

Most of ‘Sundown Over Ghost Town’ was inspired by and written in Idaho City, a mostly abandoned former mining centre to the north of Eilen Jewell’s hometown of Boise, where she now lives, and provides the album’s reflective tone and lyrical threads. It is a more reflective, musically subdued work than some of her past outings, but it may well be her best yet.

Our Song of the Day comes by way of a new video from the gorgeously quirky Sound of Yell which is led by Stevie Jones. The track Crescent features on the debut album Brocken Spectre.

Building a solid following and already a significant presence on the festival scene, in an age of  shooting stars that flare briefly and pass in the night, Thomas is an artist of solid, enduring substance and a real keeper.

Following hot on the heels of a brace of seriously landmark live gigs: first at this year’s Celtic Connections, and second and most recently in Dublin where they celebrated two decades of straight-down-the-line high-energy music-making Danú ‘s latest offering ‘Buan’ is in every respect a splendid achievement from a premier Irish band still at the very top of their game.

Tyburnia is a live soundtrack by the Dead Rat Orchestra to a film by James Holcombe which is on tour now. It takes its name from Tyburn which was a public execution site in London for over 700 years. Here those who fell foul of political, religious and judicial reforms enacted by the state were executed for public entertainment and instruction. In our first Guest Blog feature we hear from …

Richard Thompson has shared “All Buttoned Up”, a new track from his forthcoming new album Still, due for release June 23rd, 2015 via Fantasy Records (Concord Music Group). Listen to it here.

Building on the acclaim for his debut, Rhythm & Reason finds Bhi Bhiman hitting a socially conscious, soul groove and combining the political and the personal with trademark wit and wisdom. Don’t miss his UK and Ireland Tour in June.

Our Song of the Day comes by way of a debut music video for Kabembe, taken from Irish-based Congolese guitarist Niwel Tsumbu’s forthcoming new album due out in August. We’ll be bringing you more on this album soon, in the meantime enjoy his band RiZA.

Tinariwen kick off their UK Tour today at Brighton’s Concorde 2 and will also take in Hay Festival, Lauland at Bristol’s Colston Hall, Lunar Festival and Tinariwen in the Woods which is being organised by the good folk at Smugglers Records. Stream their acoustic EP Inside:Outside in full here.

Kent Folk-rock sextet Galley Beggar’s latest album does a damn good job of consolidating the tradition that began with Fairport Convention back in the late 60s.