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.
Listen to In the Wrong, by Australian alt-folk band The Royal Parks, from their forthcoming debut album Suburb Home, an album of dreamy folk songs featuring soaring three-part-harmonies.
Watch Moscow, the new single from Joe Innes and the Cavalcade, from their upcoming album ‘Foreign Domestic Policy,’ a stunningly poignant and relevant piece of work in these uncertain times.
We have a double helping today from Bay area singer Garret Pierce, Two tracks from his new album Dusk including ‘Enough,’ a song he wrote in response to the troubling mental health and homelessness in San Francisco.
Watch the video premiere for ‘Aren’t We Water?’ from Ruth Gordon and the Roof Gardeners – “spontaneously filmed on a tiny island in Orkney at a summer solstice gathering organised by a group of friends.”
Listen to Political Differences, a new song from Singer-songwriter Gallery 47 aka Jack Peachey. The song features on his forthcoming EP Bad Production, potentially his most politically influenced release yet.
Drag City Records reveal official music video for the Palace Brothers debut single ‘Ohio River Boat Song.’ We dig up some trivia about the single first released in ’93 which is also an adaptation of the traditional Scottish Loch Tay Boat Song.
Our Song of the Day comes from Los Angeles-based folk collective Human Behavior. Miner is a cover of a Karima Walker song and while the track is wildly different from her original version, Karima sings on this recording too.
