Get a taster of Dark Dark Dark’s 10″ EP for Record Store Day featuring three tracks from their ‘Who Needs Who’ recording sessions. Nona’s vocals recall classic cuts from The Shangri-Las.
They are a young six-piece band based in Newcastle upon Tyne and are the UK’s answer to Pokey LaFarge. They are Rob Heron & The Teapad Orchestra and they will keep any joint jumping!
The award-winning, Wilderness festival, has today expanded its dynamic musical line-up for 2013, welcoming an array of exceptional talent to its carefully curated main stage including: Martha Wainwright and Sam Lee
Rayys is a new artist to the Folk Radio UK playlist who we only discovered this week. She has just released her new lovely psych-folk single ‘I’m Coming Home’ which is available from bandcamp.
Thirty Pounds of Bone is to release a new album in May titled: I Cannot Sing You Here, But For Songs Of Where. It features Darren Hayman (Hefner), Laurence Collyer (Diamond Family Archive) and more.
The young Brooklyn based indie quartet Swear & Shake put on a fine showcase at this year’s SXSW, their stage presence and confidence spells out a great future! Take a listen.
Watch the latest video from the talented Irish singer Róisín O for her new single Synchronicity which was filmed by the talented Myles O’Reilly. A song about finding that person who in many ways is your oposite.
In Benjamin Gibbard’s latest video for ‘Teardrop Windows’ he’s given the task of getting a ‘bad boy’ image to sell more records. How hard can it be to get arrested? Things don’t work out how they should.
On Billy Bragg’s latest release ‘Tooth & Nail’ he got off the train to take stock and came up with a winner. He continues to embrace struggle, he just brings it down to a micro-level and shoots straight for the heart!
Muchacho is Phosphorescent’s redemption offering, a step into new sonic territory. Melancholic but tinged by the welcoming sun of a new day. Houck is at the peak of his creativity, simply brilliant!
On this weeks Nest Collective Hour, Jamie Doe presents a selection of new releases from all corners of the folk spectrum and he is joined live in the studio by incredible London singer-songwriter Theo Bard.
Listen to the final tour diary instalment from the fabulous Blowzabella as they prepare to head back home from southern Austria after a very successful tour. They will back on the road in the Autumn!