Alex Gallacher

Bridget Hayden and The Apparitions announce their new album Cold Blows the Rain, on which her vocals take centre stage as she sings traditional folk songs that she’s known all her life. Watch the accompanying 1940s archival footage video for ‘Lovely on the Water’.

Bonnie “Prince” Billy announces his new studio album ‘The Purple Bird’, made in Nashville with producer David “Ferg” Ferguson and an ensemble of A-list session musicians. Watch the video for their lead single ‘Our Home’, featuring Tim O’Brien.

The Unthanks have announced a new double album, The Unthanks in Winter, due for release on November 29th. Listen to their lead single, Dear Companions, released today.

This week’s Monday Morning Brew Playlist features Tucker Zimmerman, Joshua Idehen, Snowgoose, Karl Blau, Samantha Crain, Agalisiga, Adrian Sherwood and Lee “Scratch” Perry, Joan Shelley, Clara Mann, Alabaster DePlume and more.

Watch the video for ‘Quiet Is Louder’, the first single from Cole Stacey’s debut solo album ‘Postcards From Lost Places’, inspired by the likes of a prehistoric settlement on Dartmoor and a Victorian mining village–scheduled for release on 7 February 2025.

Celebrating its 32nd year, Celtic Connections has made its first lineup announcement for its 2025 festival. It will be held across 25 venues in Glasgow from Thursday, 16 January to Sunday, 2 February 2025.

Discover The Holy Grail: Bill Callahan’s “Smog” Dec. 10, 2001 Peel Session on November 22, and hear the first track today: “Beautiful Child”, a marvellously rambling minor key version of Fleetwood Mac’s original.

To celebrate twenty years on the road, Megson delve into their northern roots to bring fresh life to the traditional ballad “The Oak & The Ash”, also our Song of the Day. Don’t miss their 20 Years On The Side Tour.

Ease into the week with our one-hour Monday Morning Brew Playlist – from Norwegian experimental folk to the vaporous and minimal.

The Instruments was a project centred around cellist and composer Heather McIntosh. Released in 2008, Dark Småland has both blissful and melancholic moments, with vast vistas to lighten the soul.

Listen to our latest Mixtape – The Standing Stones (Jim Cauty) featuring Alasdair Roberts, Stick in the Wheel, Jake Blanchard, Seckou Keita, Flaer, SO SNER, Shovel Dance Collective, Jack Rose, Rónán Ó Snodaigh and Myles O’Reilly, Sally Anne Morgan, Resonant Bodies and more.

Rose City Band announce new album Sol Y Sombra and share song “Lights on the Way” – “This time, I couldn’t avoid the shadow being more of a presence. There’s no getting away from it. The shadow is always there. So, I left it in.”