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Taken from her forthcoming album ‘Late Slap’, Dana Gavanski shares her Talking Heads-esque single/video ‘Ears Were Growing’ – an escapist dream that spirals back to the reality of being stuck on the same old sofa with the same old thoughts.

Watch Hatis Noit’s latest video for Jomon, an incredible 3-D animation by Berlin-based Taiwanese-Japanese media artist NAOWAO, that takes inspiration from Japan’s ancient Jōmon culture.

Mdou Moctar reveal the lead single and video of their new album ‘Funeral for Justice’ on which their songs speak unflinchingly to the plight of Niger and of the Tuareg people. Primed with a new sense of purpose and urgency, their music is louder, faster, and fiery.

Ned Roberts announces his new album, Heavy Summer. Watch the accompanying video for his lead single, Another Record Round. That warm Laurel Canyon vibe is still there – dreamy and soulful, melancholy balanced by a hint of psychedelic sparkle; it’s another beautifully crafted single.

To mark the release of ‘Folklore 1979’, the acclaimed new album from Milkweed, watch the full-length 11-minute accompanying video created by Greg Butler of Oh Kestrel Films…it unspools like a single disjointed dream narrative, taking in ritual, extinction, migration, esoteric cosmogony and Arthurian legend.

Filmed on Orkney by Lewis Baillie, Oisín Leech shares his music video for ‘One Hill Further’, taken from his forthcoming album Cold Sea. Don’t miss his upcoming tour, including dates when he’s joined by Steve Gunn, Dónal Lunny and Róisín McGrory.

Taken from their forthcoming new album Negore, ODD OKODDO (Kenyan/German duo featuring Olith Ratego and Sven Kacirek) called upon Angel Bat Dawid to add her magic to their lead single Timneyore which is also our Song of the Day.

Jane Weaver delivers her over-the-top lovesong ‘Romantic Worlds’ with great tongue-in-cheek panache in a video that borrows from 80s Dungeons and Dragons fantasy—Pedalo adventures, encounters, myth and culture.

To celebrate the paperback publication of Graeme Thomson’s “Small Hours: The Long Night of John Martyn”, read extracts from the book and watch cover sessions by Karine Polwart, Findlay Napier, Siobhan Wilson, Olivia Chaney and Blue Rose Code.

BASIC, a trio featuring Chris Forsyth, Nick Millevoi, and Mikel Patrick Avery, are just finishing their first studio recordings. Watch them in concert – filmed last year at Union Transfer in Philadelphia.

Building on the momentum created by the MOTHERS IN MUSIC network, a group of musician mothers are producing an All-Dayer of music and discussion in Bristol on the 7th March ft. Rachael Dadd, Jenny Lindfors, Beth Rowley, Rioghnach Connolly & more.

Filmed live at Levis Corner House in Ballydehob, County Cork, watch the lyric video for Bonny Light Horseman’s (Anaïs Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson, and Josh Kaufman) outstanding new single “When I Was Younger”, also our Song of the Day.