The Monday Morning Brew #178
A new playlist (and some recommendations) to ease you into the week featuring Blair Coron, Ballaké Sissoko, Buck Curran, Neil Young, Jeffrey Silverstein, Nicole Mitchell and Joe Westerlund and more. Source
Folk Alley Radio Show – October Birthdays and new songs from two Elizas
This week, on the Folk Alley Radio Show, we have new music from two Elizas, and then we’ll hear new music from fiddler Libby Dale, and Taylor Ashton, and some big birthday sets for Ben Harper and Natalie Merchant. Folk Alley is able to produce and offer this weekly radio show to over 70 public and…
Podcast 567: Noah C. Lekas
This week, we’re talking to Noah C. Lekas, one of the Fretboard Journal’s longstanding contributors. Over the years, Noah has profiled a variety of subjects for our magazine, from blues legend Hubert Sumlin to luthier Matt Eich of Mule Resophonics. Today, we’re sharing this Colorado-based…
Three lively new styles of folk music that show there’s more than one way to share “three chords and the truth”
Holly Alisha – “Sunflower” -This is an adorable song. I don’t mean that to minimize it as like “cutesy” at all, but more to say the composition of the track has elements of twee and throwback pop music in just the right amount to make it work well. The vocal is perfect, allowing for a blending of…
Three brand new indie folk pop tunes that will remind you why you decided to subscribe to this site
The Strumbellas – “Hanging Out in my Head” -I always appreciate when I find a song that feels like it comes from my own experience. I’m no songwriter, but I definitely feel a connection with this feeling of being in your own head. If I don’t write (howdy, here I am) I can get locked in with a…
Fresh Cuts: “Oh, I’m just tryin’ to be all of me – it’s less a want than it is a need.”
Cindy Howes’ weekly Fresh Cuts radio hour airs every Friday at 2 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. PT on Folk Alley’s 24/7 stream — available on our website, mobile app, or your smart speaker. You can always hear the best in new folk music on our Fresh Cuts stream. Folk Alley is member supported. Only you know…
Off the Shelf with Good Habits
For our latest “Off the Shelf” feature, Good Habits’ Bonnie Schwarz and Pete Shaw, whose new album “Better for Now” is a KLOF Mag Featured Album of the Month, choose ten objects from home. They include a stable door, a Mozart Mouse and a Beethoven Bear...there's also a healthy discussion on whether…
Album | The Cat’s Miaow – When You Smiled And Turned Away
For a band whose first cassette was released in 1992, the 34-year gestation period for The Cat’s Miaow’s debut album, When You Smiled And Turned Away , seems a bit extreme. Yet things aren’t quite that simple. Melbourne’s Bart Cummings and Andrew Withycombe began recording on their own, using a…
Wintergrass Sessions: The Jordan Tice Trio
The Jordan Tice Trio – Jordan Tice, Patrick McGonigle, and Alan Mackie – perform three songs at Wintergrass 2026: “Don’t Know Why I’m Going Into Town,” “Matter of Time,” and “Find A Way from Here.” We also asked the trio about the instruments used on this session. Register now for Wintergrass 2027…
Revisiting ‘World’s Fair’ with Julian Lage
“One can hear so many of the sounds and feel so many of the feelings that, moving forward so steadily and so eloquently (and successfully), I identify as Julian. His ability to uplift as well as astonish are fully in evidence on World’s Fair; unvarnished and direct, stunningly beautiful while…
Shovel Dance Collective – Everything in Readiness
With "Everything in Readiness", Shovel Dance Collective have combined vision and virtuosity, intuitive gristle and scholastic rigour to create the best folk album of the year. This is folk music in its most potent form. By allowing itself to be hybridised and mongrelised by other influences, they…
Christian Wethered shares new single ‘The First Thing’
Dublin-based songwriter and poet Christian Wethered has released “The First Thing”, the opening track from his new album “From The Balustrade”, due in 2027 via LVP Records. His poetry takes centre stage, with dreamlike verses left open to interpretation. A playful, quirky arrangement flows through…
Three new Americana singer songwriter tracks that add texture and nuance to this timeless genre
Elise LeBlanc – “Lavender Honey” -I adore a good toe-tapping love song. There’s a spirited two-step rhythm that keeps this track moving, which encourages the listener to take a spin on the dancefloor. It’s got vintage honky tonk energy right from the start. The catchy phrase, “lavender honey” feels…
Triplet Patterns to Improve Your Time Feel and Inspire New Lines | Weekly Workout
Triplets are a hallmark rhythm in all genres of music and can help take your playing to new and exciting places, whether you’re playing lead guitar in a band or composing your own fingerstyle arrangements and need fresh rhythmic ideas.
Declan O’Rourke on “Oceanic”, Old Friends and Writing Novels Instead of Songs
Declan O’Rourke talks about “Oceanic”, his eighth studio album, recorded in Sydney with Jim Moginie of Midnight Oil. Give an artist a palette of colours, he says, and “you can’t expect them to stick with yellow or red.” He also talks about finding his old classical guitar teacher after about ten…
Spitzer Space Telescope shares ‘Bound For Calais-O’ ahead of Broadside Hacks Roster Tour
Spitzer Space Telescope shares the sea shanty single “Bound For Calais-O” a day before the Broadside Hacks Roster Tour begins in Lewes. Dan MacDonald calls sea shanties “a well of inspiration”, and this is the jolly “foc’sle” variety, with Mareva Lindo singing harmonies. It channels The Clancy…
Darren Hayman – I’m Your Team
Darren Hayman completed “I’m Your Team” in 2022, and it sat on the shelf for four years. Built on constraint, with a DX7 synth at its centre, it sees him at his most undiluted and emotionally stark, delivering some of the best songs of his career. Source
Toria Wooff shares new single and video “Noiselessly”
Toria Wooff’s new album “Aleister” is due on 12 January 2027 via Sloe Flower Records. Her new single “Noiselessly” is out today. She wrote it alone in her flat, five years after her best friend’s passing. The lyrics come from the eulogy she wrote at the time. The video follows her across the moors…
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