Alex Gallacher

Listen to ‘Way Out West’, the debut single from Holly Blackshaw, taken from her upcoming EP. Inspired by her move from Hull, East Yorkshire, to rural Mid-Wales, from the flatlands to the hills…it’s also our Song of the Day.

Featuring music from Spell Songs, A Winter Union, Georgia Shackleton, The Furrow Collective, Holly & The Reivers, Jim Moray, Nick Hart & Tom Moore, Northern Resonance, Auka, Hirondelle, Honey & the Bear, Abigail Lapell, Siger and Trond Kallevåg.

Blair Dunlop announces his new album ‘Let’s Get Out of the Rain’ and a supporting 25-date UK Tour. Taken from the album, watch him performing the superb ‘Midday Mass’ – also our Song of the Day.

Sarah Gillespie has shared a stop-motion film, created by Fini Bearman, for her new single “Molly of the Salt Sea”. The arrangements are playful and exploratory, over which Gillespie’s vocals unravel an equally engaging storytelling narrative.

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy shares the video/single “Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You”, the title track of his latest album that doesn’t appear on the album…instead it stands marvellously on its own. Watch the accompanying video directed by Adam Laity.

Leeds-based folk singer Chris Brain is our latest ‘Off the Shelf‘ guest, in which we ask artists to present objects from a shelf or elsewhere from their home and talk about them. 

Listen to The Monday Morning Brew featuring Luluc, Julie Doiron, Laura Gibson, Emma Tricca, Swimming Bell, Julie Byrne & Laugh Cry Laugh, Free Range, Madi Diaz & Kacey Musgraves, Califone, Cat Power, Mick Softley, Kilby Snow, Mutual Benefit & more.

Taken from Brulée, the second in a triptych of albums from cabane (the collective project conceived by the Belgian musician and photographer thomas jean henri), watch the lyric video for ‘dead song Pt.1’, the beautiful new single featuring Sam Genders.

Harp, the new musical project of former Midlake singer Tim Smith and his wife Kathi Zung, have shared their new video for “A Fountain”, a song which recalls a heartbreak that Smith suffered and which finds him setting forth on his galleon…

Sung by Eileen Gogan and featuring Neil Farrell, listen to ‘The Female Cabin Boy’, the latest single in the Bring Your Own Hammer series. It’s an outstanding interpretation of a ballad that circulated in Britain and Ireland in the nineteenth century.

The Liverpool-based fiddle player and balladeer Mikey Kenney is on a very special headline tour now that you don’t want to miss. Check out his latest single and support grassroots music by buying those advance tickets.

Featuring Dawn Landes, Sodastream, Paul Curreri, Dan Haywood’s New Hawks, Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Yo La Tengo, Lau Nau, Skyway Man (ft Erin Rae & Spencer Cullum), Katie Macfarlane & Brìghde Chaimbeul, Erlend Apneseth Trio, Mi Mye, Owen Shiers, Bobby Lee and more.