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Alt-folk quartet Darlingside have announced details of their new single ‘Futures’ plus a handful of UK dates for May 2018. Watch the accompanying animated video which was designed and animated by Bristol-based Mara Fradella.

Watch The Day is Golden by The Little Unsaid, a deeply personal song that deals with a journey through mental illness. The video was filmed at sunrise on St Agnes in the Isles of Scilly. It’s also the title of their UK concert tour ahead of their new album Selected Works being released on Reveal Records.

Our Song of the Day comes from Sam Moss, a musician who lives in Boston. Neon is his latest single and the title track of his forthcoming album set for release in March 2018. He’s certainly a name you want to keep on your radar.

The Gloaming will play seven sold-out shows at Dublin’s National Concert Hall in March, their only live appearances of 2018. To mark this occasion, Real World Records will release Live at the NCH, a live album recorded at the beautiful concert hall. Listen to The Booley House.         

Southern Wind is the title track from Dean Owens’ upcoming album. Co-written with Will Kimbrough, watch the video which was filmed – by Waltzer Films – in and around Leith, where Dean grew up, and in Scotland’s oldest boxing club.

Our Song of the Day comes from Nashville’s hottest new singer-songwriter Kashena Sampson with her debut UK single ‘It’s A Long Way Back’. She makes her debut London performance at the UK Americana Awards at Paper Dress Vintage on 31 January.

Laura Veirs announces her tenth solo album, The Lookout, featuring Sufjan Stevens and Jim James on guest vocals. Watch her new video Everybody Needs You. UK Tour Dates announced for June 2018.

Watch the lyric video for Kady Z’s Treehouse, her new single and a song about letting things be, taken from her forthcoming EP Daddy Issues.

Originally released in 2007 as a CD compilation by Mark Coyle, John Barleycorn Reborn: Dark Britannica has been re-issued on gold vinyl by Burning World Records. Ft. Sharron Kraus, The Owl Service, Pumajaw, The A Lords, The Kitchen Cynics and more.

We’re excited to share this new video from Bird in the Belly, a new folk group formed of alt-folk artist Jinnwoo, traditional folk duo Hickory Signals, multi-instrumentalist and producer Tom Pryor, and visual artist and musician Epha Roe.

Watch the video premiere for ‘The Sadness of King Joyce’, the new single from Kilkenny singer songwriter Shane Joyce. We also talk to him about his music, influences and forthcoming album.

Having cut her teeth as a young teen on the open Club Stage at Cambridge Folk Festival a few years back, listen to the new single from Zoe Wren, taken from her forthcoming EP Gold and Smoke.