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In association with Soundcrash we have a pair of tickets to giveaway to Portico’s unique and intimate two night residency at the ICA 25th and 26th of November 2015.

Our Song of the Day is from a video of Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash performing ‘One Too Many Mornings’. It was recorded in Nashville in 1969.

Watch the new video for Head Above Water, the title track from Laura Victoria’s debut album, released 8th June 2015. Don’t miss her upcoming performances at Cambridge Folk Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Take your first listen to a track from the new album ‘Automaginary’, a mighty cosmic family jam and collaboration between Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas on Drag City Records.

Enter the world of photographic artist Anna Bean: “Like stepping through pages of dark faerie tales, trying on different heads for size. Imagery just as likely to be re-inventing a musician’s creative identity, as adorning gallery walls in ornate frames; her work is part dreamlike Dali; part magic realism of Dahl; part homage to horror and all Bean.”

Holly Macve is a 20 year old from Yorkshire and the latest signing to Bella Union. Listen to ‘The Corner of My Mind’, our Song of the Day, which was recorded in a bedroom of a small bedsit in Brighton.

It’s been a while since we heard from fellow time travellers Dirk Van Distanz and Bert Vertigo but they have returned to Folk Radio UK for a special Prog Corner featuring Trembling Bells. Listen to it here.

For those that missed Shirley Collins’ 80th Birthday celebration ‘All in the Downs’, a day-long event that was held at the Southbank Centre, Fledg’ling Records have copies of the Limited Edition special souvenir programme available.

Terrascope are getting ready to celebrate their 25 years with a gig at The Lexington on Sunday 2nd August 2015 featuring The Bevis Frond, Malcolm Morley and The Left Outsides from whom we have a new music video.

Cold Specks has unveiled her powerful new music video for A Season of Doubt which is taken from her album ‘Neuroplasticity’ & features guest vocals by Michael Gira of Swans. She explains very openly the feelings she was going through when the video was made.

Former member of The Books releases his first solo offering in five years – In Paul de Jong’s world, everything around him is a potential instrument: regional folk records, spoken-word oddities and various everyday household utensils that we tend to take for granted.

Eliza Carthy and her all-star Wayward Band have recorded a powerful new single and have announced a series of live dates. Watch them in action at The Convent.