After many years playing solo Xavier Rudd ups the stakes on his new album with his pan-global band The United Nations. Watch his new video for Come People.
David Byrne is to curate this year’s Meltdown Festival, “It’s going to be a bit of fun puzzle-solving I imagine”…to right, with his vast musical knowledge where do you start?
Cambridge Folk Festival announce first names for their 2015 lineup including Joan Baez, Passenger, Frank Turner, Joan Armatrading, Nick Mulvey, The Unthanks and many more.
Sam Lee has unveiled a new track from ‘The Fade In Time’, his new forthcoming album released March 16th on Nest Collective Records. Listen to Blackbird here.
Sub Pop unwittingly introduced a design fault into the Father John Misty deluxe version LP which features pop-up artwork, the bulk of which has been warping the vinyl.
Seasonal Hire is the exciting new collaborative album between the boundary pushing Steve Gunn and The Black Twig Pickers. Take a listen to ‘Trailways Ramble’
Tal National return with their new album Zoy Zoy in follow up to their 2013 release Kanni which reached the NY Times top 10 albums of the year. Watch their new video for Claire.
Listen in full to The Waterboys new album ‘Modern Blues’ – references to Sun Ra, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis appear and there’s even a reading from Jack Kerouac.
Our Song of the Day comes from Marika Hackman with ‘In Words’, from her forthcoming debut album, ‘We Slept At Last’. Reminiscent of German folk-singer Sibylle Baier.
Morrissey speaks out against the Brit Awards targeting the big labels, propaganda, telly-culture – where the elite decide what it is that the people want, and then slyly attempt to weave it into populist culture.
Watch the stunning performance from Rhiannon Giddens and her band performing ‘Waterboy’ live on David Letterman. Her new album Tomorrow is My Turn is out now.
