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Spiritual Jazz as "One Big Prayer"

Brokedown Podcast host Jonathan Hart transitions his Grateful Dead themed podcast to a new, monthly, two-hour NQRA Radio show.

On December 25 (yes, Christmas), I was diagnosed with a large, aggressi… Jennifer Kelly needs your support for Support Jennifer Kelly’s battle against cancer.

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The inimitable Bobby Ace played guitar alongside Jerry Garcia for over three decades. His unique style and merry personality helped shape the sound and spirit of the Grateful Dead, and his lifelong de...

Sinéad O'Connor & The Holy Spirit of Music

Even though I didn’t have as much time as I needed to write about all of these great releases from 2025, I was still able to listen to and obsess over quite a few. Here are some of my favorit…

On the last episode of All Songs Considered for 2025, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich takes host Robin Hilton through an exceptional year in guitar music. From Gwenifer Raymond's beautiful and brash f...

My favorite fingerstylists, power trios, experimentalists and shredders of the year.

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Our End-of-Year Album longlist is here. See why these 100 folk, jazz, ambient and experimental albums made KLOF Mag’s Best of 2025. Enjoy deep dives, review highlights, and listen to the music that ma...

Buck Curran’s “Far Driven Sun” is a deeply musical, layered set celebrating his reunion with a 1990 Stefan Sobell ‘Butterfly’ acoustic guitar. A highly accomplished album, made with love and performed...

Buck Curran’s latest LP is a total love letter to the magic and soul that can be found in the resonating and harmonic qualities of acoustic steel-stringed guitars. Recorded in Italy over the …

Guitarist Buck Curran shares his new single ‘ILiad (Slight Return)’ from his forthcoming album Far Driven Sun, and details of a Robbie Basho celebration in London on August 16th.

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Gwenifer Raymond announces ‘Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark’, a cosmic leap from her folk-horror roots. The new album and its fiery single, “Jack Parsons Blues,” meld ancient mysticism with astro...

Ethereal folk guitarist and singer Buck Curran has returned with a gorgeous new single from his upcoming album, Far Driven Sun, which will be out on Obsolete Recordings and ESP-Disk on August 29th.…

A new Monday Morning Brew Playlist featuring Bill Withers, Dorothy Ashby, Thin Lizzy, Vanishing Twin, The Bonk, Buck Curran, Kikagaku Moyo, Cory Hanson, Moon Duo, Sunburned Hand Of The Man and more.

In follow-up to 2019’s ‘New Music for the 12 String Guitar’, Toby Hay, one of the finest guitarists of his generation, announces his 7th studio album ‘New Music for the 6 String Guitar’ and shares lea...

Mixtape No. 125: Fine China's dusky and dreamy Morella's Forest cover, Kaleidoscope's psychedelic hardcore, Tortoise's intricate chill

Alan Moore first gained recognition in the 1980s with his work for the comic 2000 AD, and DC Comic's Swamp Thing. He went on to create Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Batman: The Killing Joke, From Hell, an...

Dick Gaughan: R/evolution 1969-84, is an 8-disc box set that aims to preserve and celebrate Dick’s legacy as well as remunerate him fairly and squarely for that work. Enjoy 26 KLOF Mag Mixtapes from o...