Alex Gallacher

Leeds-based folk singer Chris Brain is our latest ‘Off the Shelf‘ guest, in which we ask artists to present objects from a shelf or elsewhere from their home and talk about them. 

Listen to The Monday Morning Brew featuring Luluc, Julie Doiron, Laura Gibson, Emma Tricca, Swimming Bell, Julie Byrne & Laugh Cry Laugh, Free Range, Madi Diaz & Kacey Musgraves, Califone, Cat Power, Mick Softley, Kilby Snow, Mutual Benefit & more.

Taken from Brulée, the second in a triptych of albums from cabane (the collective project conceived by the Belgian musician and photographer thomas jean henri), watch the lyric video for ‘dead song Pt.1’, the beautiful new single featuring Sam Genders.

Harp, the new musical project of former Midlake singer Tim Smith and his wife Kathi Zung, have shared their new video for “A Fountain”, a song which recalls a heartbreak that Smith suffered and which finds him setting forth on his galleon…

Sung by Eileen Gogan and featuring Neil Farrell, listen to ‘The Female Cabin Boy’, the latest single in the Bring Your Own Hammer series. It’s an outstanding interpretation of a ballad that circulated in Britain and Ireland in the nineteenth century.

The Liverpool-based fiddle player and balladeer Mikey Kenney is on a very special headline tour now that you don’t want to miss. Check out his latest single and support grassroots music by buying those advance tickets.

Featuring Dawn Landes, Sodastream, Paul Curreri, Dan Haywood’s New Hawks, Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Yo La Tengo, Lau Nau, Skyway Man (ft Erin Rae & Spencer Cullum), Katie Macfarlane & Brìghde Chaimbeul, Erlend Apneseth Trio, Mi Mye, Owen Shiers, Bobby Lee and more.

Featuring new music from The Furrow Collective, John Francis Flynn, Frankie Archer, You Are Wolf, Cat Power, Sufjan Stevens, Alice Gerrard, King Creosote, Henry Parker, Katie Spencer, Steven Adams, Freschard And Stanley Brinks, Bobby Lee and more.

The seminal Irish group, The Bothy Band, are to perform at Celtic Connections (on 22nd January at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall), featuring Donal Lunny, Tríona ní Dhomhnaill, Matt Molloy, Paddy Keenan, Paddy Glackin and Kevin Burke. They will be joined by Seán Óg Graham on guitar.

Harp, the musical project of former Midlake singer Tim Smith and his wife Kathi Zung, share their new single and lyric video, “Throne Of Amber”., taken from their forthcoming album ‘Albion’.

A painter, poet, songwriter and storyteller, Lancashire’s Toria Wooff’s mystical repertoire is steeped in gothic romanticism. Don’t miss her tour dates this month.

Listen to The Monday Morning Brew, ft. Other Lives, Lisa Hannigan, Johnny Flynn, Sam Amidon, Sparrow & the Workshop, Alasdair Roberts, Lowland Hum, Justin Townes Earle and Dawn Landes, Julie Doiron, The Wave Pictures, Deer Tick, Laura Veirs and more.