Alex Gallacher

Watch Ye Vagabonds’ full-length Nine Waves film project which presents a visual postcard of the sound world that the album inhabits, primarily based within a derelict building in Dublin and on location on the island of Arranmore, off the coast of Donegal.

John Francis Flynn shares his new single ‘Willie Crotty’ and its video, directed by Ruth Clinton and Cormac Dermody (from Lankum). It was recorded in a bedroom using the unlikely combination of a clarinet, a handheld radio, a Casio SK1, a harmonica and an effects pedal.

A Winter Union (Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage, Gilmore & Roberts and Jade Rhiannon), announce their new album, Winter Tour and premiere their video for ‘Minstrels’ on which they set to music Wordsworth’s poem about the rigours of music-making in the depths of the British winter.

Natascha Rogers is the latest signing to the French imprint No Format! Watch the video for her serene and perfectly formed ‘Aniafa’, in which she urges us to rediscover the power of feminine energy that gives balance and harmony to nature.

Collaborator, fiddler and balladeer from Liverpool, Mikey Kenney’s latest single and video, ‘Dandelion’, is an uplifting, beautiful song, filled with some lovely moments – and quite unlike anything he has done before.

Irish songwriter Oisin Leech, of The Lost Brothers shares his debut solo single and video, ‘October Sun’, produced and recorded by acclaimed Brooklyn artist Steve Gunn. The track features Portland-based musicians M Ward and Tony Garnier.

Brooklyn guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer Steve Gunn has announced a string of solo UK tour dates on which he will also be joined by the incredible Brigid Mae Power.

Dutch lute player and composer Jozef Van Wissem announces details of his forthcoming album ‘The Night Dwells in the Day’, and shares his first single and video “The Call of the Deathbird”, featuring stirring and enveloping guest vocals from Hilary Woods.

Tashi Dorji’s 2012 cassette-only release Guitar Improvisations is to be released on vinyl for the first time. Watch the new video for Improvisations I – Playing purely experimentally, he inhabits the now, increasing the elements in his play and carefully building a hypnotic whole.

The latest Monday Morning Brew features Magic Tuber Stringband, Sally Anne Morgan, Sabine McCalla, Eight Point Star, Sunny War, Herman Düne, Eli Winter, The Dead Tongues, Steve Gunn & The Black Twig Pickers, Kaia Kater, Amythyst Kiah, Jake Blount, Serious Sam Barrett and more.

Our latest KLOF mix opens to ØXN, the experimental doom folk band comprising Radie Peat, Katie Kim, John ‘Spud’ Murphy and Eleanor Myler. Plus music from Bex Burch, Liam Grant, Joseph Allred, Holly Blackshaw, You Are Wolf, Plinth and more.

Our latest ‘Off the Shelf’ feature, where we ask artists to present objects from their shelves and talk about them, is from You Are Wolf, the alt-folk project of Kerry Andrew. Their new album, hare // hunter // moth // ghost, is out next month.