Alex Gallacher

Mikey Kenney has shared the video for “On A Blue Day,” the latest single from his acclaimed album “Tiny Little Light.” A tribute to fiddle music and the players of days past, it treats the instrument as a spiritual vessel — a prayer wheel, as the lyric has it, that throws all the notes to the wind. Filmed in Cornwall, the video accompanies a spring UK tour.

Fruit Bats announces The Landfill, a vibrant full-band album due June 12th via Merge Records. Following the stripped-back solo outing Baby Man, Eric D. Johnson reconvened his touring band at Bear Creek Studios – watch the conceptual video for the title track, directed by Adam Willis.

Frog announce their eighth studio album, Frog for Sale, out April 17th via Audio Antihero — their third record in just fourteen months. Lead single “Je Ne Sais Pas” is out now. “This is an album about how money sometimes gets in the way of love,” says Daniel Bateman. The band head out on US dates, with UK shows in September.

Cole Berliner has signed to Drag City for his debut solo album, The Black Door. The title track is out now with a music video by Fred Joseph. He says, “The inspiration was drawn from the mystical sounds of American (and proto-American!) folk music and swing, filtered through the lens of heart-string pullers like Bert Jansch and Jim O’Rourke, and carved into something both personal and simultaneously universal.”

Rob Mazurek has released Alternate Moon Cycles Live at The Land School, a Qobuz-exclusive live recording documenting his reunion with Matthew Lux and Mikel Patrick Avery at International Anthem’s Southside Chicago headquarters. Alternate Moon Cycles was the very first release in the IA catalogue — and its return, eleven years on, carries the weight and resonance of ceremony. Watch the film by Brian Ashby.

Another fine playlist to begin your week, featuring Andrew Wasylyk, Slow Leaves, John Andrews & The Yawns, Robert Lester Folsom, Mari Mathias, Plankton Wat, Joshua Burnside, Marisa Anderson, Mitski, The Wooden Wolf and more. Plus, the new single from Rónán Ó Snodaigh and Myles O’Reilly…watch the new video.

KLOF’s new mixtape gathers thirteen tracks around a shared quality of patience and drift — from Juni Habel’s Nordic folk opener, Joshua Burnside’s haunting evocation of personal loss, to the closing shimmer of Félicia Atkinson & Christina Vantzou. The Notwist appear twice, and a trio recording from Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl and Macie Stewart is an unmissable highlight.

Glyders have shared a new video for Super Glyde, the electrifying opener from their latest album “Forever,” and announced European and UK tour dates for April and May. Directed by Eon Mora, the clip channels Jarmusch and Coppola into a tense, almost-Jungian visual trip — a fitting companion for a band firing on all cylinders.

Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie Stewart today release their debut trio album BODY SOUND via International Anthem. Assembled across sessions in Chicago and Knoxville and shaped using analog tape machines, the album is deep, melancholy, and triumphant — a stunning collection from three of the city’s most compelling experimentalists. New single burning | counting (sleeping) is streaming now.

Simon Joyner shares Vagabond, the first single and video from Tough Love, his nineteenth studio album. Following the direct grief of 2024’s Coyote Butterfly, Joyner refracts tough love through fictional relationships — romantic, familial, political — with acoustic songs prodded by electric guitars, rock tracks channelling the Velvet Underground and Can, and a devastating twenty-minute closing title track.

Blood Sucking Maniacs, the multigenerational family band led by Terry Allen and Jo Harvey Allen, have shared “Down to the River,” the second single from their self-titled debut, out April 24th via Paradise of Bachelors. A duet between Jo and Terry, the song is described as the album’s spiritual centrepiece — a moving paean to love and travel containing the album’s most breathtaking imagery.

Mick Flannery has announced The House Must Win, his first ever double album, out May 8th via One Riot Records. The 20-song record reimagines his 2005 debut Evening Train alongside new compositions for a forthcoming stage production. Lead single Rising Tide, a duet with Anaïs Mitchell, is available now — a delicate ballad of memory and metaphor.