Northern song and storytelling trio Harp & a Monkey have organised a special one-off show (26 March) to mark the centenary of a unique pilgrimage undertaken by grieving parents at the end of the First World War.
Stick In The Wheel announce a new tour celebrating their recent mixtape release, Tonebeds for Poetry – lost civilisations, inertia, beats music, sludge, drone, glitch and the sounds of the city, held together with ancient word-glue, repurposed to deliver vital, urgent messages for now.
Born of a shared love of acoustic guitar, metal and traditional Irish music, Dublin 4-piece, The Scratch have arguably dropped their best single to date called ‘Another Round’. Watch the accompanying video – it’s also our Song of the Day.
Firelight Trio are a new Scottish band featuring Ruth Morris, Gavin Marwick and Phil Alexander. Watch them performing Balkanpolska, a tune that captures the grace, energy and playfulness of this top-calibre trio of musicians.
The Sidmouth Folk Festival have announced a special tribute concert to Norma Waterson led by Martin and Eliza Carthy and featuring a number of special guests and good friends.
Paradise of Bachelors are to reissue two of Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band’s long out-of-print albums from the early 1980s. Remastered from the original recordings and featuring expanded artwork, Smokin the Dummy (1980) and Bloodlines (1983) are both out May 6th, 2022.
Our Song of the Day is a duet from Lady Nade and Boo Hewerdine called ‘Echo’, a heartfelt and emotional song on which their delivery is sublime. Watch the accompanying video.
Watch the new video from Heligoland and She Owl for their cover of John Martyn’s “Please Fall In Love With Me’ which appeared on his album “Glorious Fool. It’s a song that conveys a message of universal love, much needed nowadays.
On his new single ‘Atomized’, Andrew Bird considers the words of Joan Didion and the proof that things fall apart. Bird brings it all up to date in an incredibly slick monochromatic video directed by Matthew Daniel Siskin.
Taken from her forthcoming album ’Stolen Time’, Canadian singer/songwriter Abigail Lapell has shared a video for her moving new single ‘Land of Plenty’, which is also our Song of the Day.
Dean Owens and filmmaker Ruth Barrie have put together a video for “We Need Us” to show support and solidarity with the people of Ukraine and to highlight the Ukraine Emergency Appeal.
Anglo-Irish quartet The Haar, featuring Adam Summerhayes, Cormac Byrne, Murray Grainger and Molly Donnery, return in April with their highly anticipated second album Where Old Ghosts Meet. Watch their latest video for album single Wild Rover, due for release on St Patrick’s Day.
