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Indie folk lovers out there know we love Communion. We have been getting excited about this project ever since it kicked off in Notting Hill and then landed on our home turf in Bristol. It’s now spreading and will be part of the Open House Festival this year in Belfast which we are media sponsors for!

To hear that an Indie Folk artist is to have their music featured in a TV commercial should be no real surprise…you can’t watch a commerical break without hearing one of them. However, this one may be new to many Indie folk lovers in the UK as Jil is Lucky is a new pop-folk french artist whose single The Wanderer is to be featured in a new world campaign for …

Micah Middaugh, Trevor Hobbs, and Andréa Moreno-Beals are better known as the fabulous trio Breathe Owl Breathe. They have joined Hometapes with whom they will be releasing their new album Magic Central in late September. Own Stunts is their latest video for their forthcoming album

A double-disc collection of covers, remixes and otherwise unreleased extras, Heavy Ghost Appendices is a companion piece to last year’s debut album by Asthmatic Kitty’s experimental solo star, DM Stith.

Vincent Moon has given Mumford and Sons the Blogotheque treatment. With only an hour to spare, Moon set up whilst Mumford attempted to translate one of their songs as well as find a nearby filming location that hadn’t been used before. As always, they succeeded in pulling it off along with the help of Johnny Flynn improvising on violin! This was the result:

Legendary singer-songwriter Graham Nash’s emotionally charged solo debut ‘Songs For Beginners’ was first released in 1971 and came on the heels of a temporary split with his CSN band mates, David Crosby and Stephen Stills, and a permanent break with his then-love, Joni Mitchell. The album was a hit, climbing to #15 on the Billboard chart and introducing the now-classic songs “Military Madness”, “Simple Man”, “Used To Be A King”, …

Frukie listeners will be familiar with the 2007 Grinderman side project of Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos which has graced our playlist in the past. A follow-up (Grinderman 2) has been announced with a single release titled Heathen Child on 30th August and an album release on 13th September titled Grinderman 2: Here Come the Wolfman.

Whilst Open House Festival is being celebrated for its breadth of Americana and Indie Folk acts which will give most festivals a run for their money, it also has a great traditional Irish music line-up. To kick things off this year the award-winning fiddle trio Fidil will be performing. Fidil are Cíarán Ó Maonaigh, Aidan O’Donnell and Damien McGeehan who have been making quite a name for themselves recently with …

Troubadour Rose are Bryony Afferson, Lizzy O Connor, Eddie Edwards, Gary Bridgewood and Magnus Alanko. Sometimes when you come across a newly discovered band you get a feeling in your gut that you’ve found something special. I get this feeling about this bunch. In their own words:

Mumford & Sons and Laura Marling are pleased to announce details of a brand new EP of collaborative recordings with a collective of Indian musicians, the Dharohar Project, in July. The British artists embarked on a unique tour of India back in December 2009, spending a number of days with Rajasthani folk musicians in a makeshift studio at an arts & culture school in Delhi. The fruits of those recordings …

Here are some highlights for the forthcoming week from the folks at WeGotTickets, including Martyn Wyndhame-Read, Julie Felix,  Tom Kitching And Gren Bartley, Boo Hewerdine and may more!

Inter-Be is the debut album by PETER WOLF CRIER, the Minneapolis-based duo of Peter Pisano and Brian Moen. The album was born on a single summer night when Pisano felt a torrent of creativity after what had felt, to him, like an interminably long dry spell. He shared the songs with Moen, and over the months that followed, at Moen’s home, these rough-hewed tunes became what they are now: a …