Alex Gallacher

Cory Hanson’s new single “Bird on a Swing” offers a more reflective, sepia-toned sound from past works. Featuring the same core band from Wand’s Vertigo album, the track blends ’70s singer-songwriter influences with lush, Hollywood’esque production. Along with it’s poignant lyrics (“I gave it all up to the empire”), it highlights a shift towards an “impartial view of life on the ground.”

A new Monday Morning Brew playlist featuring Joshua Burnside, Cerys Hafana, Niamh Bury, Dani Larkin, Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver, Shovel Dance Collective, RÓIS, Daisy Rickman, Fohn, Salt House, Constant Follower, Adrian Crowley, Laura Cannell, Ora Cogan, Bridget Hayden & The Apparitions, Jacken Elswyth, Jim Ghedi, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Sam Grassie, Malin Lewis, United Bible Studies.

Emily Hines’ latest single, All of Our Friends, continues to channel introspective depths, calling to mind the melancholic and tender vibes of Adrianne Lenker. Watch the accompanying video, directed by Nashville filmmaker Abby Holmes. Hines said of its origins: “I wrote this song in a guy’s bedroom while he was working in the other room. Fresh out of college, I was naive and earnest, putting everything under a microscope…”

Gareth Bonello, aka The Gentle Good, has written an in-depth guide to his new album ‘Elan’ (also featuring audio and video). The album is a psychedelic portrait of Cwm Elan, the Elan Valley in Powys, Wales. It explores the landscape, history, and politics of the area that was flooded at the end of the Victorian era to create a series of reservoirs for drinking water. Out now on Bubblewrap Collective.

Tompkins Square’s enduring admiration for Canadian troubadour Bruce Cockburn is hardly news to anyone paying attention. To commemorate Cockburn’s 80th birthday this week, they enlisted contemporary guitar maestro Eli Winter to offer his interpretations of some of Cockburn’s beloved tracks. ‘To Keep the World We Know’ includes Winter’s take on “Foxglove” alongside a collection of entirely new recordings.

In a move that’s sure to stir the hearts of many, Will Johnson and the surviving members of the revered Magnolia Electric Co. have officially joined forces under the new moniker Magnolia & Johnson Electric Co. Today, they’ve unveiled a roaring new version of “The Big Beast” and announced a forthcoming 7-inch record, slated for a September release.

Los Angeles’s own cosmic voyagers, Jeremiah Chiu and violist Marta Sofia Honer, have offered another tantalizing glimpse into their forthcoming album, Different Rooms. Their latest dispatch, Side by Side, finds the duo in esteemed company, joined by the ever-exploratory guitarist Jeff Parker. The track is a potent teaser for the full-length, which is slated to arrive on June 20 via the reliably forward-thinking International Anthem.

Ty Segall’s new album, Possession, drops on Drag City tomorrow (May 30th). As previously shared, Ty enlisted his old friend and longtime collaborator, filmmaker Matt Yoka, to write with him. Shared today, Matt also directed, produced, and edited the video for ‘Buildings’, which was shot in Downtown Los Angeles and Porter Street Studio.

Listen to the latest KLOF Mag mixtape, featuring new tracks from Marc Ribot, Hayden Pedigo, Logan Farmer, Cian Nugent & The Cosmos, and Fuubutsushi. Some live and campfire moments courtesy of Ferran Orriols, Eli Winter and Cameron Knowler, and Adrianne Lenker. Plus tracks from Gwenifer Raymond and Kevin Barker, taken from Treasures Untold: A Modern 78 RPM Reader, a Record Store Day compilation Boxset from Tompkins Square.

Previously described by fellow Newcastle maverick Richard Dawson as beguiling, idiosyncratic and cinematic, watch the accompanying video to ‘Ancient Summer’, the latest single from Me Lost Me, taken from her forthcoming new album, This Material Moment. She says, “The music video is a kind of nod to ancient Roman Spring/Summer festivals and the English folk traditions I grew up with, like May Day celebrations, Morris dancing and well dressings.”

Canadian quintet Foxwarren, featuring Andy Shauf, Avery and Darryl Kissick, Dallas Bryson, and Colin Nealis, have dropped a surreal video for their latest single ‘Deadhead’, the final preview from their new album, 2, out this Friday via ANTI-. It’s a genius slice of wit and vision from the video’s Director, Joe Cappa, that transports the song onto another level.

“Maybe I’m Dreaming” is a new Anthology Recordings compilation that delves into the isolated wilds of the private pressing, where production quirks, late-night tape hiss, and one-man studio dreams were not necessarily a choice but the hand you were dealt. Documenting a spirit that’s more homespun, sometimes lonelier, and often a little weirder, listen to the first single, “Just Whistle” by the Watson Brothers Band.