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Filmed at Abdie & Dunbog Parish Church in Lindores, Adam Ross has shared a live video session for his latest single Apogee and tickets have now gone on sale for Littoral Zone album launch on 30th May at Mono in Glasgow.

Irish alt-country artist Podge Lane embarks on a UK mini-tour this week. His musical DNA is wide-ranging and unconventionally quirky – an under-the-counter homebrew of ‘DIY meets alt-country meets Anti-Folk’.

Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements share ‘Nest of Earrings’, a warm and hypnotic sonic vignette from their forthcoming album Rain on the Road.

Kinbote, the alias of Glasgow-based electronic producer Matt Gibb, shares his new video ‘Daily Vlogger’, about an obsessed fan…taken from his new album Hemisphere. Plus, details of his launch gig at Glasgow’s Glad Cafe.

Myriam Gendron announces her new album, Mayday, and shares her new single and video, “Long Way Home,” which features fellow guitarist Marisa Anderson, drummer Jim White, and Montreal bassist Cédric Dind-Lavoie.

Villagers reveals his directorial debut video for “You Lucky One”, the second single from the forthcoming ‘That Golden Time’. The imagery is reminiscent of some of Francis Bacon’s artwork, who, like O’Brien’s, was inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil.

Watch the recent Tiny Desk Concert by Amelia Baker, aka Cinder Well – “This is folk music with a widescreen vision and a gothic flourish.” Read our interview and don’t miss her tour of Ireland this month.

James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg announce their third duo album, All Gist. Listen to their lead single, a transmutation of Neneh Cherry’s monumental ‘Buffalo Stance’. The musical restraint and melodic playfulness of these two singular guitarists shines through as a warm sense of empathetic connection.

Check out some of the names in Supersonic Festival’s 2024 first lineup announcement, including Bonnie “Prince” Billy, ØXN, One Leg One Eye, John Francis Flynn, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Mary Lattimore, Smote, Emma Ruth Rundle, Gazelle Twin, Upchuck and more.

On International Women’s Day, Bab L’ Bluz share their new video, AmmA. Its rallying call against sexist and patriarchal mindsets is a message that’s strongly in tune with this year’s IWD theme of “inclusion of women.”

Shrewsbury Folk Festival have revealed more names for their 2024 lineup, including Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Jacqui McShee’s Pentangle, Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening, The Wandering Hearts, Suntou Susso, The Hello Darlins, The Pleasures and more.

Tomorrow marks the release of ‘Cuckoo Storm’, the new album from Marry Waterson and Adrian Crowley; created by Marry, watch their new video, The Leviathan, in which an otherworldly creature floats in layers of seaweed, bubbles, and hand-painted cine film.