Alex Gallacher

Joined by a number of special guests, guitarist extraordinaire Yasmin Williams performs her first Tiny Desk Concert, playing tracks from her latest collaborative album ‘Acadia’ and 2018’s ‘Unwind’.

With just Mick Turner’s keyboards twinkling alongside Helen Franzmann’s dreamy, ruminative vocals, Mess Esque share their new single and video, ‘Let Me Know You’, taken from their new album ‘Jay Marie, Comfort Me’ on Drag City.

Lael Neale has shared details of her forthcoming new album Altogether Stranger. Watch the accompanying self-directed video for the album’s centrepiece ‘Tell Me How To Be Here’, filmed by Neale and Guy Blakeslee in LA.

New York City-based improviser and songwriter Wendy Eisenberg signs to Joyful Noise and shares new single “I Don’t Miss You”. Eisenberg has an exciting lineup of performances on the horizon, starting with a residency at The Stone (NYC).

This week, Lonnie Holly released his new single ‘That’s Not Art, That’s Not Music’, a reflection on his early experiences in the art world and larger institutions’ apprehension in accepting Black self-taught fine art.

Inspired by an Emily Dickinson poem, Iona Zajac has shared a music video for ‘Summer’, her first release since 2023 – it begins with a “morning penny-drop realisation that we need more than love to be good for someone.”

Philadelphia-based quartet Friendship, share the video for their latest single “Free Association,” taken from their new album Caveman Wakes Up, out May 16 on Merge Records.

Following last year’s release of her debut album Vou Ficar Neste Quadrado, Lisbon-based artist and multi-instrumentalist Ana Lua Caiano will make her first-ever UK performance at La Linea – The London Latin Music Festival on May 1st.

Will Johnson has announced his 10th solo album, Diamond City, due for release on April 4, 2025, via Keeled Scales. His opening track and lead single, Floodway Fall, is out today.

BIG|BRAVE announce their most naked and austere record to date. OST is set for release around their European and UK Tour Dates in April. Listen to their first single, “innominate Nº ii”, which brings the ensemble’s exploration into minimalism and textural composition into stunning focus.

In 2012, Alasdair Roberts and Scottish Gaelic singer Màiri Morrison released their debut album Urstan. Today, they announce their long-awaited follow-up on Drag City – Remembered in Exile: Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia. Listen to their lead single ‘Màiri Nighean Dòmhnaill’.

Taken from his new album, Under a Familiar Sun, and featuring visuals by Eric Timothy Carlson, watch the videos for The Vernon Spring’s ‘Requiem for Reem’, and ‘The Breadline’, a piece centred around a poem by Max Porter.