A new playlist to start the week, featuring a few new artists (to KLOF). Plus, a small bundle of new music recommendations for you, including music inspired by Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane, and music featuring a honeyed voice and wry, down-to-earth lyricism.

This week’s Monday Morning Brew is free to all. Featuring Elanor Moss, Natalie Wildgoose, Magic Tuber Stringband, Shannon Lay, Alela Diane, Camille Camille, Anna McLuckie, Charlie Franklin, Fruit Bats, Diket, Black Duck & Elena Setién, Eva May, Creekbed Carter Hogan, Johnny Bell, Alex Dupree and lots more.

In our latest Substack Newsletter, you can find new music recommendations, an interview by Alex Neilson with Lavinia Blackwall, and the new Monday Morning Brew Playlist. This week’s Brew features tunes from Flaer, Dylan Golden Aycock, The Vernon Spring, Lone Mesa, R Loomes, Wau Wau Collectif, Romain Baudoin, Exploded View, Jake Xerxes Fussell & James Elkington, Prymek & Sage, Rob St. John, Cian Nugent, Henry Parker and more.

Your next Monday Morning Brew Playlist has arrived, including new music from Le Ren, Laura Veirs, Mairearad Green and lots more. Plus, explore two visionaries: Sardinian guitarist Paolo Angeli and Lisbon experimentalist Ana Lua Caiano, whose 2024 debut, Vou Ficar Neste Quadrado, was one of my Albums of the Year.

The pastoral vibes of this week’s Monday Morning Brew arrive courtesy of Mark Fry, Cinder Well, Vic Chesnutt, Jessica Pratt, Smog, Roy Harper, The Innocence Mission, John Fahey, Bert Jansch & Hope Sandoval, Michael Chapman, Marina Allen and more. And since Allen’s Candlepower surfaces in the playlist, we’ve paired this week’s Brew with a feature tracing her arc from that 2021 debut through to last year’s Eight Pointed Star.

The latest Monday Morning Brew brings new dispatches from Aldous Harding, Robyn Hitchcock, Lemoncello, Josienne Clarke, Maisy Owen, Abigail Lapell, Zoh Amba, Lee “Scratch” Perry and lots more in a playlist featuring over two hours of music — plus Substack readers get to enjoy an advance read of our Off the Shelf feature with Abigail Lapell.

Monday Morning Brew #153 features new tracks from Jim Moray, Emily Portman, Chris Brain, Henry Parker, Ajeet, Rachel Sermanni & Aisling Urwin, and Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O’Reilly — a span that takes in Shetland song reimagined through squelchy synths, music inspired by a backpacking trip across Bleaklow and the Upper Derwent ridges, and a 16th-century Gaelic lament turned lullaby from The Furrow Collective.

Monday Morning Brew #152 is open to everyone this week. The playlist opens in Tucson with Howe Gelb’s expanded Giant Sand, lingers with Vetiver, Micah P. Hinson and Bill Callahan, then dives into the Swiss underground via Les Disques Bongo Joe — Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp, Cyril Cyril, Meril Wubslin — alongside The Black Angels’ Alex Maas and French improviser Romain Baudoin.

The Monday Morning Brew #151 opens with Iron & Wine and Ben Bridwell’s Ab’s Song and fans out across twenty-seven tracks, taking in Meg Baird, Jim Ghedi, Sally Anne Morgan, James Elkington, Sam Amidon, Michael Hurley, The Weather Station, Brigid Mae Power, Fruit Bats, Jack Rose, Jolie Holland and many more of folk’s most distinctive voices.

Get the bigger picture with the Monday Morning Brew playlist. Opening with a track from Hannah Read’s The Funghi Sessions Vol 2, this week’s playlist moves through music from Jim Moray, Wendy Eisenberg, Felicia Atkinson, Aldous Harding, Steve Gunn, Zoh Amba, Damien Jurado, Thomas Dollbaum, Jesca Hoop, Oren Ambarchi, Akusmi, Les Imprimés, Juni Habel, Lia Kohl & Macie Stewart and Whitney Johnson, crys cole, and many more.

A stack of new music recommendations & a new Monday Morning Brew playlist ft. BASIC, Cass McCombs, Jeff Coffin, Kevin Farge, Cocanha, Francis Bebey, Natalie Jane Hill, Wendy Eisenberg, Carsie Blanton & The Burning Hell, Jesca Hoop, Adrian Sherwood, Courtney Barnett, Classic Trucks, Katy Pinke and lots more. We also dip into the strange world of analogue synth design.

Alongside this week’s Monday Morning Brew Playlist, our Substack Subscribers get to read an advance copy of an upcoming Off the Shelf feature from Natalie Wildgoose, whose new EP, Rural Hours, is due April 15th via state51. The Brew includes new tunes from Juni Habel, Magic Tuber Stringband, The Deslondes, Lemoncello, Dead Goat, Andrew Wasylyk, Mike Tod, Kris Drever, Emily Portman, Alela Diane, Sluice, tofusmell, Joshua Burnside and more.