Alex Gallacher

LA singer/songwriter Christian Lee Hutson announces ‘Paradise Pop. 10 Deluxe’, a dialled-down offering featuring just acoustic guitar, cello and violin. The change on tracks like ‘After Hours’ is dramatic in a quietly transformational way.

This week’s Monday Morning Brew Playlist features music from Great Lake Swimmers, Kira Skov, Felbm, Varo, Fuubutsushi, Hayden Pedigo, Odelet, Swimming Bell, Satomimagae, Dominie Hooper, Ty Segall, Whitney K, Kita Kouhei, William Tyler, Makushin & more.

Taken from The Gentle Good’s forthcoming new album, Elan, watch ‘To Be in Summer’, a song about the rural idyll, and a bit of a nod to bands like Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and Super Furry Animals.

Celebrated American guitarist and composer Marc Ribot will release his first-ever vocal album. Thirty years in the making, “Map of a Blue City” will be released later this month. Watch the video for his current single, Daddy’s Trip to Brazil.

This week’s Monday Morning Brew Playlist features Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver, Toby Hay, Quinie, Aidan O’Rourke, Appendix Out, Jackie Oates, Joseph Allred, James Yorkston, Iona Lane, Trembling Bells, Eight Point Star, Remorae, Pelt and more.

Watch the new video from Glasgow-based musician Quinie for her new single ‘Sallow Buckthorn’, a mesmeric sea of swirling sound and Scots poetry.

Watch Alex Rex’s ‘Boss Morris’ video, a tribute to his favourite all-female Morris dancing side, the titular Boss Morris – energy, colour, self-invention and profound knowledge of the tradition all collapsed into something that has reinvigorated the form.

After 15 years of performing together, the much-loved Yorkshire folk duo of Belinda O’Hooley & Heidi Tidow say farewell for now in order to explore other adventures that are beckoning to them. Don’t miss their final tour of their favourite venues.

Christina Alden and Alex Patterson’s long-awaited second album, Safe Travels, is released on 9th May. Watch them performing the heartfelt ‘A Hundred Years Ago’ live.

Listen to “Widdershins” an ornately decorated folk epistle that shares an existential fundament of Faun Fables’ worldview. Their new album, Counterclockwise, drops on May 30th.

Sally Anne Morgan announces her new album, Second Circle The Horizon. Listen to her first album single, “I Saw a Heron” – “I wanted to capture the feeling of walking outside and encountering organic nature sounds”

In follow-up to 2019’s ‘New Music for the 12 String Guitar’, Toby Hay, one of the finest guitarists of his generation, announces his 7th studio album ‘New Music for the 6 String Guitar’ and shares lead single and video ‘Celyn’.