COUNTRY/ FOLK

Calgary’s genre-blurring ensemble Little Brown Jug Brass return with a moving collaboration, teaming up with celebrated Métis singer-songwriter Ashley Ghostkeeper for the heartfelt single “My North Star Home,” released ahead of their upcoming holiday album Holiday Spirits (November 28, 2025). Known for bringing brass-powered joy to jazz, funk, and roots,…

Texas-born composer and performance artist Konrad Kinard returns with his most personal work yet, War Is Family, a 20-track experimental memoir released through Incinerate Media and The Orchard. Calling it “a radio drama without the drama or the radio,” Kinard dives straight into the psychological fallout of the Cold War…

Irish singer-songwriter Gavin Fox returns this Christmas season with “Where I Belong,” a tender Americana/folk duet shaped for anyone spending the holidays far from the people they love. Released on November 21, the track carries Fox’s signature emotional honesty while introducing the stunning debut of Lilirose, whose earthy, luminous voice…

The Storm Windows return with a festive twist in their new Christmas single “Santa Goes to Space,” accompanied by a charming YouTube video and a pair of release shows across Vermont. The Americana trio, brothers Rob and Don Mathews alongside drummer Erik Anderson, are known for their warm folk-rock spirit,…

Omer Netzer ushers in the season with “Holiday Blues,” a warm, wistful country-blues single released this November 21, that shines softly against the backdrop of loss, longing, and the fragile hope that love might return with the first snowfall. Co-written with Stephen Hunley and produced by David “Messy” Mescon, the…

Jens Gustavson’s new album Vissa dagar, an unsigned digital release, sees the long-running Swedish singer-songwriter leaning even further into a distinctly acoustic, roots-infused palette. Mostly recorded live at Studio Rissna City in Jämtland and shaped by producer Robin Lindqvist, the record blends New Orleans-tinged roots blues, folk, country, European song…

Martin Lloyd Howard’s latest original composition, “Unanswered,” arrives as a delicate, slow, and contemplative meditation for solo classical guitar. Howard, an English guitarist rooted in classical training, has long expanded into folk, blues, rock, and everything in between. He has built a reputation for making expressive guitar pieces that speak…

Matt Saxton returns on 21 November 2025 with Feel It Again, a rock-folk album steeped in memory, renewal, and the fragile beauty of long-term love. The cover alone sets the tone, with a twenty-five-year-old photograph of Saxton and his soon-to-be wife, frozen in a moment when time felt abundant, and…

Stuart Ironside’s “Blow the man down, Johnny” arrives as the second single from his upcoming album Music from Somewhere Else, and it carries the unmistakable scent of sea air, memory, and ancestral pull. Rooted in two classic Liverpool shanties, “Blow the Man Down” and “Leave Her, Johnny,” the track is…

Kwun, the UK singer-songwriter and producer reshaping conscious music for a new era, returns with “Cuíca,” a bold and atmospheric single that further cements his reputation as one of the most intriguing emerging artists of the moment. With thirteen award nominations already under his belt, and his forthcoming debut album…