Described as a joyfully irreverent psychedelic fantasia of folklore, free jazz, and avant-garde Blues, Chicago composer, improviser, instrumentalist, and musical folklorist Ben LaMar Gay announces his new album and shares the title track single, Yowzers.
Last month, Rachael McShane & The Cartographers released their new album, Uncharted. Have a listen and read Rachael’s personal Track by Track guide to the album.
Taken from his forthcoming album ‘Undercurrents’, watch the video for Matthew Young’s “The Summer Girls”, a setting of a poem by his aunt, Marion Lineaweaver, which also showcases his love for the hammered dulcimer.
Scottish smallpipes player Brìghde Chaimbeul shares her latest single from her forthcoming album, Sunwise. An old vocal dance song dating from 1934 ‘She Went Astray’ “is all about the rhythm of the language.”
Taken from their highly-anticipated collaborative new album, The World That I Knew, listen to Varo’s latest single, Sweet Liberty, on which they are joined by Ian Lynch of Lankum.
This month sees the release of Adrianne Lenker’s 120-minute album, Live at Revolution Hall, on which she performs “a myriad of songs; some new, some rare, some favorites, and beyond, in front of an audience and behind the scenes.”
Yoshika Colwell has announced the release of her debut album ‘On The Wing’ and shares her new single and video ‘There’s Got To Be A Loser Babe’. “It is, at its core, an album about acceptance and release, and freedom from old binds.”
On September 4th, Brooke Sharkey will release her new album ‘Under Stones’. Listen to her first single, A place we go to, a contemplative song evoking friendship, with oneself, with others, nature and the natural environment. It’s also our Song of the Day.
Canadian folk singer Bonnie Dobson teams up with psychedelic cowboys The Hanging Stars for new album, Dreams, and premieres lead single and video ‘Baby’s Got The Blues’…” She performs like it’s the Carnegie Hall every time.”
Currently on his solo Spring tour, watch Sam Carter performing his latest single, Long Time Travelling, a well-known rousing spiritual from the 19th-century American shape-note tunebook The Sacred Harp.
Ahead of their European tour this May with Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Mess Esque share the video for their latest single ‘Crow’s Ash Tree’. Whatever emotions shaped these songs, the results are quite unforgettable.
Featuring Ruth Clinton of Landless, Cormac MacDiarmada of Lankum and John Dermody of The Jimmy Cake, Poor Creature announce debut album ‘All Smiles Tonight’ and share video for ‘The Whole Town Knows’.
