Singer, songwriter and guitar virtuoso Martin Simpson is to release a brand new studio album titled “Rooted” on August 30 via Topic Records featuring a host of special guests. Watch the new album trailer here.
Listen in full to Don’t Look Down, the new album from Damn Tall Buildings who The Boston Globe called “the Carter Family for the Millenial Generation”…it certainly captures their lightning-in-a-bottle live energy.
Listen to Zoë Wren performing ‘Let No Man Steal Your Thyme’. It features on her new single which also includes that classic Joni Mitchell cover “Both Sides Now”.
Thrill Jockey have announced the signing of duo Ryley Walker and Charles Rumback. The pair are prepping their sophomore collaborative album due this fall. In the meantime watch this brilliant video of them performing live in Philadelphia.
Kathryn Williams Anthology boxset is set for release this month. The twenty disc boxset is worth celebrating – she is on tour during September and October with Neill MacColl & Jon Thorne.
The Soft Cavalry (husband/wife duo Steve Clarke and Rachel Goswell of Slowdive) have today shared a video for new single “Bulletproof” in which the band use sign language to convey the track’s lyrics.
In search of the primaeval sound of the universe, our Song of the Day comes Space Klezmer Goylem – a sweet spot point between psychedelic prog, Middle Eastern electronica and traditional European klezmer and folk music.
Mac DeMarco and his band will return to the UK this November for a five-date tour including his biggest London show to date at Alexandra Palace on 21st November 2019.
Watch the new video from Bill Jones for the title track of her new album Wonderful Fairytale which features a string quartet as well as Ian Stephenson on guitar and double bass.
Tradfest pulled in a truly international audience from Scotland and beyond to this year’s festival, which featured Lankum, Talisk, The Fretless, Kathleen MacInnes, Fiona Hunter, Kaela Rowan and more.
Lauren MacColl announces a full-band tour of The Seer across Scotland from 21-29th of June and publishes her first printed tune book featuring 44 melodies including all the tunes from The Seer.
Watch the new video from Dean Owens for Louisville Lip, a tribute to Muhammad Ali and an intensely personal song, as the singer imagines addressing his hero directly, remembering the impact on a kid growing up in the port of Leith.
