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The Dark Side of the Lens is a fascinationg documentary about a film maker with an incredible passion who goes to extraordinary lengths to capture what he sees with his heart.

Lost in the Trees have re-orchestrated Bon Iver’s Lump Sum, they combine American folk, modern pop and dramatic unconventional symphonic classical elements.

City Slang records is celebrating their 20th anniversary in style this year with a series of special shows, this Autumn, in Berlin. Acts due to play include Lambchop, Calexico and more

Kurt Wagner & Cortney Tidwell are getting ready to unleash Kurt Wagner & Cortney Tidwell present KORT: Invariable Heartache. Watch the videos and get the tour dates.

Blitzen Trapper have released a video for their track, The Tree, which features Alela Diane and is taken from their latest album, Destroyer of the Void. Watch it now.

Late last week a vinyl record arrived at Folk Radio, a Double A Side 10″ Single from an artist called Jo Mango. We don’t normally receive vinyl but this weighty package held great surprises. The album artwork was beautiful, lovely imagery…two records in white (the moon) and black (the black sun) vinyl each etched with detailed and delicate illustrations by Nalle’s Hanna Tuulikki, another amazing artist with a unique and …

Mt. Desolation have grown in stature to be considered more than just a quoted side-project from Keane’s Tim Rice-Oxley and Jesse Quin. If anything, I get the feeling the project has outgrown Keane and will continue to do so, if they allow it, and I hope they do. They recently unveiled their video for State of Affairs which is shot in a beautiful period hall. The opening sequence is acoustically …

It seems a little while ago now since I left Open House Festival for my journey home…the recovery took a little longer. So for those of you that wish you were back there, or wish you had gone, here are some fun photos of what went on behind the scenes. I’ll be featuring more so make sure you check back. In the meantime you can see what the likes of …

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zero’s recently performed Live @Vibes which was filmed by the good folk at laundromatinee.com. Yes they do sound as good live as they do on the studio! Watch them now:

Once upon a time in a country far far away a boy lived, very different from all the others. His name was Eftichis. Everything ran smoothly in his life until one day, many many years ago an incident made him see life from a different perspective. And suddenly, a big secret was revealed.

Midlake agreed to do a session for Sideshow Alley TV, a recently set up video session outfit whom I couldn’t find out much about but I thought this was a great session. So here they are. Midlake performing Small Mountain in an alleyway in Australia. I look forward to seeing more sessions!

We just got a tip off about this new movie: Into the Woods: Pathway (known as ITW:Pathway), which is, to say the least, being deliberately mysterious. Just visit the cryptic website at the end of this post and let us know if you discover anything else….freedom of thought? Suffering? pieces of information? You figure it out. It has that whole Blair Witch feel about it with a cast of big …