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Watch the new video from Katy Rose Bennett for Devil, her latest single that blends hypnotic, acappella vocal loops and electronica with traditional folk songwriting to create an unsettling and beguiling sound.

Watch the beautifully animated video for ‘Bluebirds and Rye’, the latest single from Kate Ellis, a loving letter sent from mother to daughter. There’s a beautiful homespun warmth to Kate’s music that’s sure to make her forthcoming album a highlight for many in 2022.

Watch the video for Lammas Fair, the title track of Henry Parker’s new album, and our Song of the Day. Parker’s own music lies in both the past and present and with performances like this, there’s plenty to celebrate for the future.

Jon Patrick Walker reveals his video for the light-hearted, sun-drenched, blissfully vintage, easy-rolling ‘Auto-tune My Love’. A slick little number that opens his new album “The Rented Tuxedo & Other Songs”.

River Lea announces Fire Draw Near – an album of Irish traditional songs and music from the archives, compiled by Ian Lynch of Dublin band Lankum which will be released on October 8th, 2021.

The Frank Burkitt Band return next month with Silvereye. Taken from the album, watch their latest video for ‘World King’, a scathing biography of Boris Johnson that carries a hint of optimism and hope for change.

Martin Callingham premieres a beautifully animated video for his new single Scully, taken from his highly anticipated sophomore album ‘Patterns’ due for release this November. Callingham clearly hasn’t lost any of his touch for painting in the pastoral light.

Stick In The Wheel announce a new mixtape release, Tonebeds for Poetry, with first track The Cuckoo. The album explores 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.

Our Song of the Day comes from the legendary Mike Edison, noted New York journalist, musician, author, and provocateur who teams up with Andalusian Troubadours Guadalupe Plata for an epic telling of the story of John Henry.

Martha Tilston has written, directed and stars in a film called ‘The Tape’ in which she plays a disillusioned songwriter drifting through life…until she finds inspiration at an atmospheric Cornish cliff-top house and records an album. Watch the film trailer.

Steve Gunn shares his new single ‘Circuit Rider’ from his forthcoming new album ‘Other You’ and announces UK & European solo live dates for February 2022.

Dan Haywood announces ‘Country Dustbin’, a one-track album & book of poetry that attempts to come to terms with the clutter of a life in the 20th & 21st century…that walks a tightrope across the joyful, the sad, the wondrous, the banal.