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Welcome to another Monday Morning Brew Playlist, featuring Caoilfhionn Rose, Jessica Pratt, Sun Kil Moon, Will Oldham, Sibylle Baier, F.J. McMahon, Fred Neil, Geckøs, Blue Lake, Ora Cogan, Ohtis, Jonathan Richman, Demi Spriggs, Magnolia Electric Co., Arthur Russell, Loudon Wainwright III, Billy Bragg & Wilco, Mazzy Star, Pete Molinari, Jim James & Calexico, Bill Callahan, and Turner Cody.
Welcome to another Monday Morning Brew Playlist featuring Tindersticks, Smog, Dory Previn, Low, Gillian Welch, Jim White, Giant Sand, Ellen McIlwaine, Scott Walker, Nick Lowe, Grinderman, Vic Chesnutt, Dean & Britta, Martha Wainwright, Meg Baird and Karen Dalton.
Another Monthly Subscriber playlist featuring the artists we’ve been enjoying over the past month, including: Junior Brother, The Little Unsaid, Ron Sexsmith, Eve Adams, JJJJJErome Ellis, Lucrecia Dalt, Jens Kuross, Iona Zajac, James Yorkston, Gwenifer Raymond, Steve Gunn, Buck Curran, Saul Williams, Carson McHone, Big Thief, claire rousay, Joan Shelley, Fruit Bats, Kathryn Williams, Trond Kallevåg, Patrick Shiroishi, M. Sage, Smote, SML, Sir Richard Bishop, Katie Spencer, Michael Hurley & …
Another Monday Morning Brew Playlist featuring Ganavya, Frantz Casseus, Flaer, Leyla McCalla, She Keeps Bees, The Memory Band, Cerys Hafana, Colleen, Jesca Hoop, Olenka and the Autumn Lovers, Fiona Soe Paing, Emily Wittbrodt, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Bob Frank, Mike Cooper & Steve Gunn, Cheri Knight, Ivor Cutler, Gruff Rhys, Dirty Projectors, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Gregory and the Hawk, deførmed.
Alongside a special performance by Lou Rogai (Lewis & Clarke) enjoy our Monday Morning Brew playlist, featuring Roufaida, Keith Jarrett, Juni Habel, Don Severance, DUG, The Fishermen Three, Bonnie Prince Billy, Lewsberg, Chantal Acda, Dani Larkin, Joan Shelley, Big Thied, Pina Palau, Sam Gendel, Julie Doiron and Msafiri Zawose.
Our latest weekly brew playlist features Mishra & Deepa Nair Rasiya, Sourdurent, Francis Bebey, Michael Hurley, Natalie Wildgoose, Mari Kalkun, Peter Bellamy, Martin Carthy, Broadside Hacks, Red River Dialect, Joan Shelley, Spencer Cullum, Flora Hibberd, Lael Neale, Natalie Jane Hill, Niamh Regan, Andrew Tuttle, William Ryan Fritch and James Jackson Toth.
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The ten selections for this month’s Subscriber Exclusive include The Thorn, Joseph Shabason and Thom Gill, Toby Hay, Walter Hus, Teppana Jänis & Arja Kastinen, The Owl Service, Why Horses?, Great Lake Swimmers, Lando Manning and Norma Dream.
We rewind to January 2013 and a special Simple Folk Radio show that was hosted by James Yorkston. The show was recorded in his home on the east coast of Scotland, from where he shared some of his favourite folk tunes. These included tracks from Rita Farrell, Willie Clancy, Mick O’Brien and Caoimhín O’Raghallaigh, HMS Ginafore, Nic Jones, Anne Briggs, Jean Ritchie, Dick Gaughan, Bess Cronin, Elle Osborne and more.
Our latest Off the Shelf guests are Dublin duo Varo, featuring Consuelo Nerea Breschi and Lucie Azconaga. In this series, we ask artists to present objects from a shelf or shelves in their homes and discuss them, a form of storytelling through objects. Varo recently released their highly anticipated new album, The World That I Knew, featuring some of the biggest names in Ireland’s contemporary folk and trad scene.
Here are ten new albums to dive into. From the psychedelic desert folk of Foot Ox and the soulful Americana of The Fishermen Three to the timeless duets of Tamar Korn and Kyle Morgan, this list offers a range of sounds. Explore the genre-bending jazz of Shrunken Elvis, the cosmic collaboration between Ivan The Tolerable & Hawksmoor, and the experimental folk-pop of Greg Jamie.
“I feel like I’m looking a little bit more outward now,” confesses Brian Christinzio, aka BC Camplight. And with good reason. He talks to KLOF Mag about “A Sober Conversation”, his fifth album for Bella Union in a decade, his seventh overall, which has been universally acclaimed, praised not just for his songwriting chops and musicianship, but also its subject matter.
KLOF Mag’s Gareth Thompson chats to Pneumatic Tubes, aka Jesse Chandler (Midlake and Mercury Rev), about his new album ‘Runner’s High’, referencing “a feeling you can’t get on drugs.” He shares that when he started running, “It coincided with the birth of my first child, my daughter Nico. It’s strange that my dad began running when my mom was pregnant with me.”
In an exclusive interview, Irish musician Brigid Mae Power discusses her unique approach to creating art. She explores her intuitive recording process, which embraces the unpolished and emotionally direct. Power delves into her philosophy of music-making, the importance of authenticity over perfection, the challenges of creating emotionally honest music in the contemporary landscape, and staying grounded when coming up against challenges and barriers.
This Is The Kit’s Kate Stables discusses the “peaks and troughs” of writing her seventh studio album, how collaborations can be liberating, and her excitement for performing a tribute to her idol, Joni Mitchell, plus her upcoming UK live dates, including an appearance at Moseley Folk and Arts Festival.
Our latest Off the Shelf guest is Fletcher Tucker, whose new album, Kin, is out next week on Gnome Life Records. Tucker shares some special objects from his home on the unceded Esselen tribal lands now known as Big Sur, California–From Jaime de Angulo, one of Big Sur’s wildest heart-minds, to wild incense and a trusty ultralight rucksack for wild camping, this one is pretty special.