Seeds of Light, the new single from Rose City Band, featuring additional vocals from Sanae Yamada is our Song of the Day. It’s taken from their new album Sol Y Sombra, out January 24th, 2025, on Thrill Jockey.
Animal Collective’s Brian “Geologist” Weitz announces a collaboration with Sleepy Doug Shaw (Gang Gang Dance / White Magic / High Life) and shares their first video and single, “Route 9 Falls” – like some cosmic Appalachian odyssey.
Constant Follower, led by singer-songwriter Stephen McAll, shares a powerfully moving video directed by Martin J Pickering for the song ‘Patient Has Own Supply’, which tells a deeply personal story rooted in McAll’s teenage years.
Oysterband, Levellers, Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy, Jim Moray, Moonlight Benjamin, The Henry Girls, Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones, Melrose Quartet, and 9Bach are just some of the first wave of artists announced for Shrewsbury Folk Festival 2025.
Clara Mann has shared ‘Til I Come Around, a song “about intimacy, in every sense.” The new single, also our Song of the Day, is taken from her forthcoming debut album, ‘Rift’ (7th March 2025—via state51). Watch the accompanying visualiser.
Ahead of her UK tour this month, listen to The Old Bog Road, the new single from Lewis Barfoot and the title track of her forthcoming EP, a collection of a capella folk songs from Ireland and Britain.
To mark the release of his new album A Terrible Beauty, Christy Moore has shared a video (his second only music video) for his new single ‘Boy In The Wild’, directed and produced by Ellius Grace and starring Liam Cunningham and Ollie West.
With his newly-named band – Ether Ensemble – Irish pedal steel guitarist David Murphy announces the follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut album with live EP Quay Session and shares its accompanying short film directed by west Cork filmmaker Sean Vincent Phair.
To mark the fortieth anniversary of their artistic relationship, Maddy Prior and The Carnival Band will tour the UK in what will be not only a celebration but also a farewell, the last time they will undertake such an outing.
Perfectly timed for Samhain/Halloween, watch the video for ‘Sleep’, the new single from Penelope Trappes. Directed by Agnes Haus, it features Maxine Peake and Kate Dickie… an unscripted pseudo-horror film about sleep paralysis at night.
Robert Macfarlane & Nick Hayes have collaborated on another modern Broadside Ballad which protests the slow death of rivers in the UK & around the world––& sings for their revival.
Our Song of the Day comes from Cynefin – Welsh folk singer and cultural historian Owen Shiers. Taken from his forthcoming album Shimli, listen to his latest single, ‘Helmi’, which presents the words of an obscure cân (a poem or song) by farmer Evan Jones.
