COUNTRY/ FOLK

Woody Guthrie’s songs have echoed across generations, inspiring everyone from Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen to Billy Bragg and Tom Morello. But behind the folk icon was a restless storyteller whose humour, compassion and fierce social conscience still resonate today. As the award-winning show Woody Sez: The Life & Music…

Singer-songwriter and music student Gideon Unna brings a refreshing dose of warmth and spiritual optimism to the table with his luminous single, “Heaven Is Here.” Hailing from Kibbutz Ein Carmel, Israel, Unna crafts music rooted in human connection, gratitude, and a deep reverence for the present moment. Heavily influenced by…

Some performances feel like recordings; others feel like someone has opened a window into a living memory. Syna Awel’s Acoustic Live Session, released on August 3, 2026, belongs firmly to the latter. Across 29 minutes, the French-Algerian Amazigh artist brings together five pieces shaped by Amazigh heritage, oral tradition and…

What if a guitar could make a landscape appear without saying a word? That is the quiet trick behind Martin Lloyd Howard’s “Highland Mist,” an instrumental single released on August 1, 2026. The Reigate-based guitarist and composer draws from classical, folk, blues and rock traditions, but here he pares everything…

There is something wonderfully liberating about a song that sounds like the moment you finally leave everything behind and hit the open road. Brooklyn-based indie-folk artist and composer Elizabeth P.W. captures exactly that feeling in “Head West,” the featured song from the upcoming documentary OUT THERE: A National Parks Story.…

Ed Sykes and Friends makes a graceful entrance with “Always Be Mine,” the debut single from singer-songwriter Naran Rathod, a warm, groove-driven song that hides a rather painful story beneath its easygoing surface. Born in India and raised in the UK from the age of five, Rathod draws from folk,…

Seattle singer-songwriter Sarah Brunner steps into a new chapter with her self-titled EP, Sarah Brunner, a five-track collection that wraps intimate stories of connection, identity, grief, memory, and change in warm Americana textures. Originally from Michigan and performing across the United States for more than 15 years, Brunner brings a…

Adonys Fallz continues his genre-blurring journey with “Wildin’ Out S.T.B.Q (Small Town Beauty Queen),” a feel-good anthem that effortlessly fuses country pop, Americana, folk, and hints of his hip-hop and R&B roots. Formerly known through projects such as 856 Breezy and Breeze Valenteeno, the Pennsylvania-based independent artist has steadily shaped…

Few debut albums arrive with a concept ambitious enough to weave mythology, feminism, spirituality, and musical experimentation into a single narrative. Yet Wild Woman does exactly that. Australian-born, New York-based artist kol isha introduces herself as far more than a singer-songwriter; she is a producer, storyteller, and sonic architect who…

The Sonic Travelers continue their mission of breathing new life into decades of unreleased songwriting with “Please Comfort Me,” a heartfelt Americana ballad that proves timeless stories never lose their emotional power. The recording partnership of longtime friends George Aiello and John Ingram reaches back nearly fifty years for this…