Introducing: folk singer Sergio Beercock who is about to embark on his debut UK tour. Although born in Hull he moved to Sicily, Italy as a child where he recently released his debut album Wollow. Watch the video for his lead single ‘Battle for Attention’.
Listen to One and Only, a new song from Boston-based folk singer-songwriter Avi Jacob, taken from his forthcoming EP ‘Surrender’. The new EP was produced by Simone Felice and features members of the Felice Brothers playing on it.
If Chicago-based singer-songwriter Tyler Sjöström is an unfamiliar name to you then I will bet money this will change on the release of his new EP Bones, Hold Me Up from which we take our Song of the Day with lead single Holding On.
Tom Armstrong’s The Sky Is An Empty Eye is the first of several reissues planned by Tompkins Square of full albums by artists featured on their recent double-LP, Imaginational Anthem vol. 8: The Private Press which we reviewed on FRUK.
Listen to Bound to Ride, the new single from Atlanta Bluesman Moses Nesh which features on his new album No Labor-Saving Machine coming this Friday, April 21 on vinyl on Keeled Scales.
Emily Barker has unveiled her new video for a heartbreaking new song titled Over My Shoulder that she wrote with one of Britain’s finest songwriters, Boo Hewerdine. The song features on her forthcoming new album Sweet Kind of Blue.
Drag City share further Palace videos including Horses which stars a very young Will Oldham and a stop-animation for ‘Come In’. Both songs feature on Lost Blues and Other Songs which is available as a double LP, CD and Digital via Drag City.
Newcastle’s experimental folk maverick Richard Dawson announces new album Peasant and shares video for Ogre. The album “will grab newcomers to Dawson’s work by the scruff of the neck and refuse to let them go until they have signed a pledge of life-long allegiance.”
Our Song of the Day comes from Melbourne artist Kathleen Mary Lee via her video for her new single Broken. The track is a captivating, lovelorn piece, fuelled with breathtakingly beautiful honesty. It is the first single from her second EP, to be released this year.
The eleventh Gate To Southwell Festival is set to be their most eclectic and entertaining festival to date with acts including Jon Boden, The East Pointers, Shelanagig, Chris Smither, Megson, Gnoss and many more. Watch our video preview.
For his latest album, In Buenos Aires, the innovative Fraser Fifield headed to Argentina with bagpipes and low whistle to join three of the most highly regarded exponents of New Tango: Walther E. Castro, Quique Sinesi and Mono Hurtado.
Our Song of the Day is Ruth Theodore’s toe-tapping ‘Kissing in Traffic’, watch her new animated video and don’t miss her UK tour dates which still include London, Brighton, Llandudno and Milton Keynes.
