Today sees the release of Simmerdim: Curlew Sounds, a unique double album, inspired by one of the UK’s most iconic and endangered birds, the Eurasian curlew. Featuring The Unthanks, Emily Barker, Cosmo Sheldrake & Talvin Singh – as well as project curator, Merlyn Driver.
The Imagined Village original lineup of Billy Bragg, Eliza and Martin Carthy, Simon Emmerson, Johnny Kalsi, Sheema Mukherjee, Jackie Oates, Andy Gangadeen, Simon Richmond and cellist Barney Morse Brown will reunite for a rare appearance at this year’s FolkEast.
Neil Young’s 1974 Bottom Line concert – Citizen Kane Jr. Blues – is released as part of the Neil Young Official Bootleg Series. Watch the accompanying album trailer.
London’s own Miraculous Mule announce their first album since 2017’s critically lauded ‘Two Tonne Testimony’ with their haunting take on old traditional song ‘O Death’ accompanied by a spectrally beautiful video by Swiss artist Stéphanie Cousins.
Knockengorroch Festival, Scotland’s longest-running greenfield festival, returns next week with its long-awaited 2020 line-up and new additions for 2022 including Afro Celt Sound System, Newen Afrobeat, L’Entourloop, Kel Assouf, Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton, Callum Easter, The Poozies and more.
Starting in July, James Yorkston’s Tae Sup Wi’ A Fifer takes to the road again featuring Gruff Rhys, Salena Godden, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Josie Long, Jeffrey Lewis and Kathryn Joseph.
Sacred Bones have today announced that they are to publish a 200-page book on the legendary Los Angeles cult The Source Family and their wildly influential psychedelic rock band Ya Ho Wa 13.
Simon J Jones likes to do things differently, and he doesn’t disappoint in this new video in which he presents the story of the founder of electricity, Michael Faraday, with nothing more than the most organic of tools – the human voice.
Alice Allen and Patsy Reid, two of Scotland’s most in-demand ‘bi-lingual’ Scottish musicians release ‘Strathspey Queens’ today, an album celebrating the work of fiddler and composer and Scottish dancing master, James Scott Skinner.
Watch the accompanying video to Kathryn Williams’ new single ‘Answer in the Dark’, taken from ‘Night Drives’, her first official album since ‘Hypoxia’ in 2015. It finds Kathryn exploring a more filmic sound, with a larger ensemble of instrumentation.
Ahead of his UK and European Tour this summer, watch Joshua Ray Walker, “country’s most fascinating young songwriter”, performing an acoustic version of ‘Sexy After Dark’ from his latest album, ‘See You Next Time’.
A new ‘Dylan60’ Microsite launches today alongside a new music video for Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues 2022″, to commemorate Bob Dylan’s 60th Anniversary as a ‘recording artist of immeasurable musical and cultural impact’.
