Kris Drever’s “Doing This For Love” is an artfully crafted meditation on the unglamorous reality of 4am alarm clocks and quiet sacrifices. Infused with northern grit, it stands as a powerful tribute to the working lives it depicts. These songs are born of struggle but elevated by love, each with the potential to secure a lasting place in the folk canon.
The Monday Morning Brew #151 opens with Iron & Wine and Ben Bridwell’s Ab’s Song and fans out across twenty-seven tracks, taking in Meg Baird, Jim Ghedi, Sally Anne Morgan, James Elkington, Sam Amidon, Michael Hurley, The Weather Station, Brigid Mae Power, Fruit Bats, Jack Rose, Jolie Holland and many more of folk’s most distinctive voices.
Supersonic Festival has confirmed ten new acts for its sold-out limited-edition 2026 event, including Guttersnipe, Jennifer Reid, Thorn Wych, Ancient Hostility and more. MMM — the trio of Gayle Brogan, Nick Jonah Davis and Elizabeth Still — have also shared a video for Hands to Stone, Eyes to Stars from their Calanais Stones-inspired album Lunistice Alignments.
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