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Featuring Lee Ranaldo, watch the video for Awal, the first single from Middle Eastern psych-rock collective Al-Qasar’s debut album ‘Who Are We?’ – an explosive mix of heavy Arabian grooves, global psychedelia and North African trance music.

Taken from her new EP ‘You Thought You Knew’, Lindsay Lou has shared a new video for her rootsy Appalachian-tinged lead single ‘Don’t Go Back’ featuring a host of talented fellow musicians.

Marlais, the stage name of Michael Culme-Seymour, returns in July with a tape of folk songs “The Nightingales Are Drunk”. Watch him performing ‘My Bonny Boy’ inspired by Anne Briggs.

Check out our latest Best New Music Playlist featuring Clare Sands, Joan Shelley, Mychelle, Jason McNiff, Son of John, Andrew Tuttle, Damien Jurado, Bonny Light Horseman, Wax Machine, Angeline Morrison, Jake Blount, Bella Hardy, Rachael Dadd, Diatom Deli and many more.

The Ulster trio TRÚ have released a new single, the Ukrainian Folk Song ‘Plyve Kacha’. All proceeds from the track will be going to Ukrainian and Palestinian charities.

Following the release earlier this month of ‘Howling Wind’, Alela Diane has today released another new single titled ‘Paloma’. Watch the accompanying video which features her two daughters providing her with a unique makeover.

Andrew Tuttle’s latest album single is ‘New Breakfast Habit’, on which he is joined by Luke Schneider on pedal steel and Darren Cross on acoustic guitar. This is music you want to wake to and the accompanying video is a beautiful visual response to that.

Jake Blount announces dystopian Afrofuturistic concept album, The New Faith, out September 23rd on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and shares his first single ‘Didn’t It Rain’, a song made famous by Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Mahalia Jackson.

Following on from the release of her critically acclaimed EP ‘Tírdhreacha Agus Fuaimdhreacha’ (Landscapes & Soundscapes) and smashing subsequent single ‘Awe na Mná’; sixth generation fiddler, bilingual singer & multi-instrumentalist Clare Sands announces her self-titled album and shares her new song, ‘Sail On’.

The award-winning Israeli-Persian singer Liraz returns with a new single “Azizam” from her upcoming third album ‘Roya’ (due out on 7 October 2022 on Glitterbeat). Watch the accompanying video here.

Chicago-based guitarist/composer Eli Winter has announced the release of a new self-titled album featuring Cameron Knowler, Yasmin Williams, Jordan Reyes, David Grubbs, Ryley Walker and more. Watch the video for his lead single For a Chisos Bluebonnet.

Dennis Cahill, one of the world’s finest guitarists in traditional Irish music has died at the age of 68. Dennis was best known for playing alongside Irish fiddle player Martin Hayes and also as a member of The Gloaming.