James Yorkston announces “La Magnifica”, a career-spanning double album. The first of two new songs is also out today, accompanied by a video directed by Lewis Baillie.

Biita Houdei’s solo debut, “This Bed Was Made For Me,” exudes personality and feeling, a testament to the slow process and the commitment and patience required to create a complete work of art.

Jason McNiff talks through his latest album, Ten Blue Songs, which was recorded and produced live by Trevor Moss. He says: “This album is evidence of our working life and couldn’t exist without the gi...

RÓIS has signed to Domino Records. Her critically acclaimed 2024 album, MO LÉAN, will be reissued globally with an additional track. Watch her performing “WHAT DO YOU SAY (LIVE FROM A WAKE)”.

Recorded at home on the reel-to-reel machine that captured Lead Belly’s Last Sessions, Michael Hurley’s “First Songs” returns on vinyl on November 6th. Watch the animated video for his classic ‘The We...

Mayo Thompson’s “Quiet Days in Cliché”, recorded on a smartphone, is his first solo guitar album. Out December 4th on Drag City.

Marisa Anderson talks to KLOF on “The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music”, how she gained access to Harry Smith’s final record collection and playing End Of The Road.

Digressions #4 - Living Slow EP is the latest in John Blek’s series of download-only releases available via Bandcamp. From the minstrel-folk-mottled opener to the piano-waltzing closer, it’s a sublime...

Jake Blount’s “Single-Footing Horse” returns to the old-time mountain music played by Appalachian string bands — every bit as potent - and, in a way, just as experimental - as his earlier forays into ...

The Owl Service’s “Tied to the Land” is a joyous rendering of traditional songs, instrumentals and a Cornish folk tale after a decade away. Revolt from the monolith of AI and come back to the village,...

From his forthcoming studio album Oceanic, Declan O’Rourke has shared a thought-provoking new video for Earl Grey and Edwin, his third album single - one of the most beautiful videos and songs I’ve se...

Charlie Parr’s “Rooming House” follows John’s boarding-house residents across seven songs and, twenty albums in, is quite possibly his masterpiece.

Taken from his new album Cells, Gaspar Claus’s final album single, Ecstasy, appears to be the most obvious departure into electronic territory, yet all the sounds originate from his cello.

Toria Wooff announces her new album, Aleister, and shares the lead single ‘The Morrigan’. The accompanying video, from Manchester’s Light In The Tower, draws on 1970s folk horror to chilling effect.

Joshua Burnside has shared a powerful new video for the title track of his latest album, I’m Not Going to Be Okay. It was directed, shot and edited by Jake Duncan, and stars Sy Tuck and Grace Gallaghe...

Kiran Leonard talks to KLOF backstage at End Of The Road about scoring his live sets and trying things that supposedly aren’t supposed to belong in song.

Gaelic is a living language…Trá Pháidín understand that, and the songs on Cloch ‘s Claí preach it with both humour and intensity.

Taken from his forthcoming album ‘Cooked’, Oren Ambarchi shares the entire 22-minute song, Sleight of Hand, in the form of a short film created by Maximilien Luc Proctor.

Northern Earth feels like a real distillation of Dean McPhee’s sound; the music shows meticulous attention to detail, and recording it live with no overdubs makes it all the more impressive.

The Monday Morning Brew is here, your weekly pick-up.

New Mixtape, Spell Songs Interview, End of the Road and Festival De Musique Émergente Festival reviews, and a stack of new album reviews + Artist Track-by-Track Guides.

Karine Polwart and Jackie Morris talk to KLOF Mag about “In Thin Air,” Spell Songs’ third album. They discuss birdwatching, folk tradition, protest and why physical records still matter.

It’s foolish to attempt to situate Sourdure’s music within a historical context; it feels both pre- and post-everything. His latest, Outredore, is a singular album that floats freely and pierces deepl...

Today marks the release of Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s “Ghosts of American Psychonauts”. Taken from the album, watch a live performance of ‘Trees of Hell’.

Alongside new tunes from Spell Songs and Birdvox, this week’s Mixtape includes Charles O’Hegarty and Kings of the South Seas, and a singing session at The Cobblestone Pub in Dublin.

Blair Dunlop shares a live video for “Are You Loved?”, ahead of his sixth album “What Still Survives” (October 30th, Navigator Records).

JP Harris shares a video for “Hang Me,” the final single from his album “Shaving A Dead Man,” out October 23 on Bloodshot Records.

Elanor Moss talks us through every track on her debut album, The Knife, The Needle, from kitchen-table lyrics to a tape machine malfunction and writing by intuition until a voice emerges.

Danny Neill, alongside photographer Sophie Reichert, reports on End of the Road’s 20th anniversary at Larmer Tree Gardens — Geese, Pulp, Ty Segall, Carson McHone, ØXN’s murder ballads & lots more.

Radie Peat announces her debut solo album “No Human Tongue Can Tell” and shares her new single “The Moon and Stars”, alongside an accompanying video directed by Peter Eason Daniels.

Charlie Wheatley’s “Live at the Chapel” teases a three-part folk project with guitar, viola and double bass inside a Welsh church, situated in London’s West End.

Jake Xerxes Fussell’s The Old Beloved Path is his most delicately considered release yet — his most elegant and unassuming, still only getting better.

Festival De Musique Émergente turns Rouyn-Noranda into a one-of-a-kind occasion, where performer and crowd feel inexplicably tethered.

Sairie’s long-awaited debut, Beneath the Spreading Tree, is starkly beautiful and richly rewarding — its ghostly landscapes rooted in a British psychogeographical and musical tradition.

A new playlist Ft. Birdvox, Spell Songs, Brigid Mae Power, Jon McKiel, Charlie Parr and more. Plus five album recommendations from kosmiche country to Irish Trad.

One of the joys of Birdvox’s debut album, Shamming the Drama, is how combinations of the ancient and contemporary are served up in so many different ways - music for thinking about as well as dancing ...

Martin Simpson shares a finely crafted solo performance of Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright.” It also features on “Some Kind of Jubilee,” his new album marking fifty years since his “Golde...

Jarrett Gilgore and Anthony Pirog’s “Between The Earth and Where” — two empathetic and exploratory young men playing a delicate, nocturnal blues.

Featuring Ríoghnach Connolly, watch the accompanying video for ‘Curlew Song’, the new single from Clare Sands, taken from her upcoming album ‘They Tried to Bury Us’, out on October 9th.

Blind Yeo’s “The Lemoine Point” surges with baked Krautrock riffs and pantheistic ancient worship, doing more than most to keep Cornwall weird.

Macdara Yeates’s “Mudlark Ballads” unearths forgotten Dublin songs, and his ability to capture a song’s mood is second to none.

Listen to our special mid-week Morning Brew playlist, celebrating over three years of our weekly playlist series: The Monday Morning Brew, spanning folk, psych, soul, jazz, and more.

Le Ren’s “Don’t Be Funny Without Me” is a phenomenally powerful album. The arrangements expand beyond the spareness of her earlier releases, with fiddle, drums and layered harmonies; this is one you w...

Baby Dee’s “Child of Joy” reworks her songs for accordion — preciously intimate and impossibly vast, the perfect antidote to the modern world.

Nick Jonah Davis’s “Rose Delta Rising” pairs clean electric guitar with bass, drums and strings. Recorded in the Outer Hebrides — it is both elegant and accomplished, his best yet.

The Male Pattern, the project of Queens songwriter, novelist and English professor Will Schwartz, shares “Charlie (The Robbery)” ft. Danny Bateman from “I Was Shot in the Heart!”

David Murphy & Ether Ensemble rework Led Zeppelin’s “The Rain Song” for pedal steel — a charity single for Doctors Without Borders.