Today sees the release of The Ballad of Mic and Susie, the honest and heartfelt new single from Serious Sam Barrett. To celebrate the release, watch Sam performing the song live.
Taken from his impressive 2024 album, One Evening and Other Folk Songs, and filmed by the talented David James Logan, watch Buck Curran with Adele H, Jodi Pedrali, Dave Barbarossa, and Roberto Frassini Moneta performing Deep in the Lovin’ Arms of My Babe.
Rhiannon Giddens and her former Carolina Chocolate Drops bandmate Justin Robinson are to reunite on ‘What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow’, an album of North Carolina fiddle and banjo music. Watch the video for the album track ‘Hook and Line’.
Chicago-based Whitney Johnson and Lia Kohl announce their debut album, For Translucence, and share their new single and video “73|74”. Their goal is “for translucence”: for each successive part to add clarity to its others.
Guitarist Cameron Knowler announces his second full-length album, CRK, and shares stunning lead single ‘Felicity’ alongside a video shot on Super 8 film by Steven Perlin.
Macie Stewart announces her International Anthem debut, ‘When the Distance is Blue’, and shares her lead single “Spring Becomes You, Spring Becomes New”. Watch the accompanying video, filmed and directed by Mikel Patrick Avery.
David Grubbs shares his latest single, “Queen’s Side Eye”, described by his label as a taut, intensively scaled guitar piece with Grubbsian, serpentine changes unfurled in a measured, lucid abstraction.
During their Celtic Connections performance, Catrin Finch’s mastery of the Welsh harp intertwined seamlessly with Aoife Ní Bhriain’s deft fiddle playing, creating a rich tapestry of sound that thoroughly captivated the audience.
The Gentle Good shares his latest single, Ten Thousand Acres, an ode to the Elan Valley’s many expressions and a meditation on ownership and our perception of landscape throughout time.
French songstress Sophia Djebel Rose unveils ‘L’Homme au Costume Doré’ from her upcoming album, Sécheresse, as an experimental short movie with a ‘Nouvelle Vague nod feeling’.
Watch the video for ‘Roving I Will Go’, the new single from Johnny Campbell. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Britain’s first long-distance path, The Pennine Way, Johnny is walking the 268-mile route, performing 17 shows across 19 days in March/April 2025.
Watch the video for The Burning Hell’s new single “Bottle of Chianti, Cheese and Charcuterie Board”, an off-kilter synth and double-bass hip shaker (with a banjo solo)…there is slapstick and dancing and costumes.
