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Watch the latest official video for New York Girls from Bellowhead, plus get their summer festival dates as well as those all important Hedonism tour dates for later this year!

Watch this latest session of Josh T Pearson from La Blogotheque. The results were beautiful and somehow very suited to the blind faith of the Josh T pearson of today, he seemed incredibly at home on boulevard de Belleville.

Another new video has been released for PJ Harvey’s album Let England Shake. Watch the video for Bitter Branches below and read Seamus Murphy’s comments on its making.

Folk Radio UK in association with the Southbank Centre are giving away two pairs of tickets to the The Great Folk Jukebox which will be held at the Royal Festival Hall on Saturday 7th May.

Michael Kiwanuka takes classic raw soul and country blues elements and transforms them with some clever modern arrangements. If it wasn’t for the more modern stylish embellishments and arrangements I’d swear I was listening to an old legend, you can hear the essence of the likes of Otis Reading and Marvin Gaye, brilliant!

Watch: Alexander – A Million Years, directed by Benjamin Kutsko. I knew it would be something very different but this really clever.

Arborea’s new album, Red Planet, is released today and to celebrate we’re very proud to be offering this first exclusive viewing of their new video for Phantasmagoria in Two, a beautiful and ethereal Tim Buckley cover which features on the album.

Well it is the Bank Holiday and the sun is shining, at intervals admittedly, so I thought I’d dig back for a suitable tune and came up with this Belle and Sebastian one. I also stumbled across this great animation video that was drawn and directed by Nicole Benz.

Shearwater release live album: Island Arc trilogy. Frontman, Jonathan Meiburg, releases new EP and the band sign to Sub Pop, they start work on a new album shortly. Listen now and watch a great documentary.

David Thomas Broughton is to release his new album, Outbreeding, through Brainlove Records on 23 May. The release is to coincide with an album launch tour. Get your first taster by watching the new video for Nature below.

Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros and Old Crow Medicine Show gave a 100 lucky punters their first taste of the Railroad Revival Tour. Watch them perform below.

Bon Iver, the musical project of Justin Vernon, confirms the release of his new album, Bon Iver, Bon Iver, to be released on 20th June. Watch the video trailer.