Our Song of the Day is Cold Old Fire by Dublin-based band Lynched. Watch the powerfully moving Director’s Cut video (by Luke McManus) which opens to the traditional funeral lament Caoineadh na dTrí Mhuire.
It’s back and there’s still time to enter! The Purbeck Valley Folk Festival (25-28 August) is celebrating the UK folk scene with its very own talent contest, Purbeck Rising.
Show of Hands have today released single and video ‘The Gamekeeper’ to mark the centenary of the first day of WW1’s Battle of the Somme. They are also performing in a special concert at Exeter Cathedral tonight.
Fledg’ling Records announce new Anne Briggs EP. Rare, simple, unadorned and intimate performances, aching with poignancy, make their first appearance on record, fifty years after recording and capture Anne Briggs singing at just the right time.
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros have unveiled their new video for Wake Up The Sun which was shot on Location in Chimishli and Chisinau – Moldova With the Chimishli Village Theatre group.
The Mekons, those sonic adventurers that formed in Leeds way back in 1977, have offered up a musical response to Brexit with Fear & Beer – also a sneak peak at MEKONS EXISTENTIALISM, a new album/book/video to be released September 2016.
Thrill Jockey, following the release of her LP, have revealed a documentary on the mysterious songwriter Jackie Lynn who will be making appearances around the world this Summer.
Listen to ‘Black Waves’, a track premiere from BD Harrington’s forthcoming third album ‘The Diver’s Curse’, an album whose bleakness is rescued from overwhelming darkness via its diversity and insightful story-telling…
Listen in full to the debut EP from Melbourne based singer & songwriter Kathleen Mary Lee. An inspired body of work that is deeply rooted in something raw, honest and nostalgic.
Celebrating their 10th anniversary as a band, The Felice Brothers have announced a European tour at the beginning of 2017 plus stream in full their new album Life In The Dark.
Jon Boden’s solo debut album Painted Lady is to be reissued on it’s 10th Anniversary with additional bonus tracks. To celebrate, we have a special video premiere of Jon performing a Bellowhead favourite – Roll Alabama.
Kings of the South Seas launch new ‘Free Folk’ series featuring an array of musical friends spontaneously creating music….Vol. 1 features squeeze box virtuoso Andy Cutting like you’ve never heard before…no boundary is sacred!
