Iron & Wine announces new EP “Weed Garden” due August 31st via Sub Pop and shares lead track What Hurts Worse. It serves as the perfect companion piece to last years full length.
Check out this darker cover of the Rolling Stones ‘It’s All Over Now’ by five-piece band Ransom Pier who hail from Queens, New York. Hayley Harrington’s jazzy vocals nail it.
I guess that the song ‘Echoes’ is about the pain of letting go of a relationship that isn’t working. The lyrics were still forming when I came to the session, and that gives the performance a bit more immediacy and spontaneity than a song that has settled.
Featuring Jenny Sturgeon, Inge Thomson, Jason Singh, Sarah Hayes and Magnus Robb and The Sound Approach, watch the video for Northern Flyway’s ‘Curlew’ taken from their forthcoming album on Hudson Records.
The pure joy that Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard found playing together is perfectly captured on a set of newly unearthed recordings, Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes, 1965-1969, out September 21 on Free Dirt Records.
Watch the latest video from Los Angeles-based Thumpasaurus for their new single ‘Flamingo Song’. Without a doubt, one of the best videos I’ve seen all year. The band are currently preparing for the release of their debut album The Book Of Thump, due July 24th.
Richard Thompson is set to return with 13 Rivers on September 14 2018, via Proper Records. The 13-song set is the Grammy-nominated artist’s first self-produced album in over a decade and was recorded 100% analogue in just ten days.
Cat Power, the vocalist, songwriter, musician, and producer Chan Marshall, will release her new album Wanderer on October 5th 2018, via Domino. Watch an introduction to Wanderer.
Acclaimed folk and jazz musician Ben Somers releases his brand new album, ‘Poor Stuart’ on 7 September 2018 – heavily influenced by American, Scandinavian and English roots music, watch Ben and his String band performing the title track live.
Bridget St. John has announced a short tour of the UK and Ireland in September 2018. The tour begins with an appearance at Moseley Folk Festival and includes a gig at The John Peel Centre – It was the late John Peel that helped to launch Bridget’s musical career.
Award-winning traditional harpist and singer Rachel Newton is to co-curate a series of concerts at London’s Kings Place under the title of Trad. Reclaimed: Women in Folk. Names announced so far include The Shee Big Band, Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening and more.
Marissa Nadler shares live acoustic video for the title track of her new album ‘For My Crimes’. The video was shot and edited in Los Angeles by a 19-year-old USC film student named Tyler Smith.
