Alex Gallacher

Emerging Midlands musician, Elizabeth J Birch pays a powerful and heartfelt tribute to trade unionist and suffragist Mary MacArthur by singing Rouse Ye Women in a new video release for International Women’s Day 2023.

Listen to our latest Lost in Transmission – Featuring Lucy Farrell, Half Gringa, Lankum, Magic Tuber Stringband, Ben Walker, Steve Gunn & David Moore, P.G. Six, Jim Ghedi & Toby Hay, Alice, Scott William Urquhart & Constant Follower, Shane Parish, Jeffrey Scott, wendyeisenberg and Tomten.

Kris Drever will tour with his own band this summer. To celebrate,  Reveal Records have issued an expansive (36-song) career-spanning compilation album that features three exclusive new songs “Catterline”, “Punchbag”, and “Dust in Light” (written with label mate Boo Hewerdine).

The Norway-based Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra release “The Broken Circle Sessions” today; watch them performing their album opener ‘Heaven and Hell’ as a 15-strong orchestra in front of a sold-out audience.

Scotland’s revered folk trio The Langan Band announce their first record in ten years, Plight o’ Sheep. Listen to their lead single, ‘One Whole Year’, also our Song of the Day.

Filmed in the ancient heart of Bergamo, Italy, watch the accompanying video for Buck Curran’s Winter Solstice 1, taken from the recently released ‘Solstice: A Tribute to Steffen Basho-Junghans’. We also have details of his Robbie Basho 12 String Restoration Project.

Today, sees the release of Horse Lords Live in Leipzig, described as an exploded view of the quartet’s unparalleled live show. Watch them performing ‘Mess Mend’, which gives a brilliant insight into the complexities of their music and the demands it places upon the musicians.

American Primitive Guitar pioneer Harry Taussig will release his new album ’80’ via Tompkins Square on his 82nd birthday. He reflects on how he wanted to extend the American folk guitar tradition into previously unexplored territories and how he did so through theories of classical musical forms.

Later this month Steve Dawson releases his newest album, Eyes Closed, Dreaming. Watch him in session with Joachim Cooder, Jeremy Holmes, Darryl Havers and Krystle Dos Santos for the beautiful and engaging original ‘Hemingway’.

Taken from Lankum’s fourth album, watch the visualiser video for their new single ‘The New York Trader’, a ‘Jonah Ballad’ that they learned from Ringsend native Luke Cheevers.

Omnivore Recordings and Iconic Artists Group announce Stephen Stills Live At Berkeley 1971, a previously unissued recording made during his first US Tour. Each show opened to an intimate acoustic set, and closed with a riveting electric set featuring the Memphis Horns.

Taken from his new album “Secret Stratosphere”, check our ‘Area Code 601’ from William Tyler & The Impossible Truth – Hawkwind meets The Charlie Daniels Band. Also our Song of the Day.