The winners of the The MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards are announced. Winners included Mike Vass, Julie Fowlis, Duncan Chisholm, Paul McKenna and Niteworks. Read the full list of winners.
Quebec’s much lauded musical quartet Le Vent du Nord bring to a close their tenth anniversary year as recipients of a very special music award in recognition of the band’s latest album entitled Tromper Le Temps.
This weeks Nest Collective Hour will be hosted by Jamie Doe (The Magic Lantern) who will be bringing you a great choice of tunes as well as featuring the massively talented Abi Wade. Don’t miss it!
Sweden-based rock trio Junip announce new self-titled second LP which promises to bring more pastoral contemplation courtesy of Elias Araya, José González and Tobias Winterkorn. Get a taster here.
Woodpigeon (aka Mark Andrew Hamilton) has this afternoon announced he will release his fifth full-length album, ‘Thumbtacks and Glue’. Listen to the first track to be taken from the album ‘Sufferin’ Suckatash’.
Bella Union announce the release of John Grant’s second solo album ‘Pale Green Ghosts’ which was recorded in Iceland and features Sinead O’Connor on guest vocals. Watch the video for the title track.
Songlines Magazine have started a session series called The Boat Sessions and to kick things off they welcomed Swiss Cajun punk trio Mama Rosin on board who sang a love song!
Josh Ritter has announced the release of his sixth full-length recording ‘The Beast In Its Tracks’ which will be released March 4th on Pytheas Recordings. Get a taster here.
Heidi Talbot heads into collaborative territory on her latest release Angels Without Wings featuring Mark Knopfler, King Creosote, Jerry Douglas, Tim O’Brien, Karine Polwart, Louis Abbott (Admiral Fallow) Julie Fowlis and more.
Nearly three years on from his breakthrough album ‘Here’s To Taking It Easy’, Phosphorescent returns to the fray with his most stunning record yet: ‘Muchacho’. Hear a taster of what’s to come!
Oes i Oes is a beautiful Welsh album from Cass Meurig and Nial Cain. It is released this month, a thing of great beauty that I could happily listen to it all day and never tire of!
John Carroll’s latest release ‘Let Every Tongue’ is an intriguing release that grabs at your curiosity, plaintive and melancholic arrangements deceive the listener of the album’s great depth.
