Bright Phoebus, Lal and Mike Waterson’s 1972 folk-noir masterpiece is to be reissued. Under the supervision of David Suff (Topic/Fledging) and Marry Waterson (daughter of Lal), the album has been remastered from the original tapes.
Circe’s Diner, aka Rosina Buck and Bronte Shande, provide us with our Song of the Day via their new single ‘Who Dares’ – An uplifting track about being brave, despite all the sorrows of life that can make us dysfunctional.
July 28th sees the release of this lavish Fairport Convention CD box set, Come All Ye – The First 10 Years. Beginning with their eponymous debut for Polydor in 1968, through to 1978. It features 55 previously unreleased tracks.
Edens’ Appalachian roots are the glue of Stripped Down Gussied Up, an album that teeters between sonic extremes, between Edens’ present and sepia past. Listen to Sirens.
Several years after the passing of Jason Molina and the original run of the Songs: Molina – A Memorial Electric Co. project, the band is reuniting for a handful of special, intimate tour dates. The shows follow the May 15th publication of the biography Jason Molina: Riding With The Ghost.
To mark the release of Resin Pockets, Crescent’s first album in ten years, they have shared a new video featuring the first live performances of ‘Get Yourself Tidy’ and ‘AC30’.
Micah P. Hinson’s new album ‘Presents The Holy Strangers’ is described by the artist as being a “modern folk opera”. Telling the story of a wartime family, going from birth to love, to marriage and children, to war and betrayal, murder to suicide.
Australian-born Lindsay Phillips (now based in Sweden) offers a very personal and revealing track-by-track guide to his latest album The Sleep Song which you can also listen to in full prior to its official release next month.
Aldous Harding ignited quite a flame at FRUK with her eponymous debut album, with her new album Party out now on 4AD she’s added more fuel. Watch her amazing performance of Horizon on Live on Later… with Jools Holland.
Psychedelic rock-folk-Americana stalwarts The Stevenson Ranch Davidians have unveiled their new single ‘Wack Magick’. This is the second single from the album ‘Amerikana’, due out on June 9th.
On June 30th, Tompkins Square will reissue two albums by Texas singer/songwriter Will Beeley – the self-released mega-rare (only 200 copies) private press LP Gallivantin’ from 1971, and Passing Dream, originally released by Malaco Records in 1979.
Irregular Folks’ Summer Session returns to Old Marston, Oxfordshire ft: Yorkston Thorne & Khan, GO DARK, Rozi Plain, Laura J Martin, Oly Ralfe, Dead Rat Orchestra, Jack Cheshire and Hannah Bruce.
