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If ‘Colour of Fire’ is anything to go by then Mechanical Bride’s debut album ‘Living With Ants’ is a big musical evolution for her personally. Watch her latest video and download the track.

For Charles Bradley his debut album, No More Dreaming, is the realisation of a dream come true and the awakening of a great raw talent. The energy in his voice and delivery is testament to a man waiting to break out. He finally has his day!

Just when you thought you’d heard it all…Lush Cosmetics have released a Jackie Oates range for: Traditional Folk…

The Black Twig Pickers got together on Valentines day last year to record a fitting tribute to their good pal, Jack Rose. You can listen to and download below.

Hauschka is the alias of German pianist / composer Volker Bertelmann, who currently resides in Dusseldorf. Having only recenlty released Foreign Landscapes in October last year he has unveiled a new release titled ‘Salon des Amateurs’.

Delta Swamp Rock: Sounds from the South is a new compilation album released this week on Soul Jazz Records which centres around 1968-1975, a period in which country, rock and soul met. Some real gems can be found on this.

Watch the latest official video for New York Girls from Bellowhead, plus get their summer festival dates as well as those all important Hedonism tour dates for later this year!

Watch this latest session of Josh T Pearson from La Blogotheque. The results were beautiful and somehow very suited to the blind faith of the Josh T pearson of today, he seemed incredibly at home on boulevard de Belleville.

Another new video has been released for PJ Harvey’s album Let England Shake. Watch the video for Bitter Branches below and read Seamus Murphy’s comments on its making.

Folk Radio UK in association with the Southbank Centre are giving away two pairs of tickets to the The Great Folk Jukebox which will be held at the Royal Festival Hall on Saturday 7th May.

Michael Kiwanuka takes classic raw soul and country blues elements and transforms them with some clever modern arrangements. If it wasn’t for the more modern stylish embellishments and arrangements I’d swear I was listening to an old legend, you can hear the essence of the likes of Otis Reading and Marvin Gaye, brilliant!

Watch: Alexander – A Million Years, directed by Benjamin Kutsko. I knew it would be something very different but this really clever.