New in Folk Country & Singer Songwriter

Curated by Indie30 on Spotify, this new music playlist features 30 independently made tracks from the worlds of folk, country and the singer-songwriter. All tracks featured in this playlist can be accessed in its 2021 companion here.
Anna Cordell Shares Searchingly Intimate Third Single From Forthcoming LP, Nobody Knows Us

Next month will see Melbourne artist Anna Cordell release her long awaited and much anticipated debut album Nobody Knows Us. Having shared its first two singles, the subtle drama of ‘You’ and the spiritual title track late last year, she now shares the earnest and vexed third, ‘Tried So Hard’. Musically, a delicate underlying drift carries […]
NEW FOLK, COUNTRY & SINGER-SONGWRITER – AN INDEPENDENT MUSIC PLAYLIST UPDATE

We kick off the update to our slightly renamed New Folk, Country & Singer-Songwriter Spotify Playlist with the sparse and haunting ‘Wolfman’ from Georgian poet and musician Claire Cronin. It’s from her deeply profound new album Big Dread Moon out on Orindal Records. Two Canadian artists, the latter based in Australia folllow. The stirring ‘Less […]
NEW INDEPENDENT FOLK / ROCK / COUNTRY / SINGER-SONGWRITER / AMERICANA & CHAMBER POP- AN INDIE30 PLAYLIST

“Take your silver spoon, dig your grave” Steph Cameron — Gold Dust Woman. PLAYLIST UPDATE – NOVEMBER 30 – Some great tracks released during November across all the genres in this playlist. We begin our last update of 2018 with two tracks from the prairies of central Canada beginning with Foxwarren, the quartet led by Andy Shauf […]
TOP 30 – NOVEMBER 21, 2018: VOL.10 NO.38

FINNS OCELOT TAKE FINAL NO.1 OF 2018, DEBUTS FOR STEPHANIE SYKES, STIMMING & LAZARUSMAN, ROSIE CARNEY, SHXCXCHCXSH, OTHA, SPELLLING, HONUNGSVÄGEN & GRIVO FINAL TOP 30 – THE FULL LIST (Including Release details) 1. OCELOT (FIN) – ‘Hämärä‘, from the single Hämärä (Soliti) 2. STEPHANIE SYKES (GER/ENG) – ‘Sikker‘ from the compilation EP Common Purpose Series 3 (Dyad Recordings) 3. FONTAINES D.C (IRE) – ‘Too […]
TOP 30 – NOVEMBER 14, 2018: VOL.10 NO.37

SO. CRATES, NELSON DIALECT & ALNITAK KID HIT TOP SPOT WITH “BLACK TAPES”! IRELAND’S FONTAINES D.C. DEBUT IN THE TOP 10 WITH THE WITHERING ‘TOO REAL’ WHICH LEADS A WHOLE SWAG OF NEW ENTRIES! AND IT’S ALL KICKED OFF BY THE STUNNING “NO UNIVERSE” FROM CHRIS GARNEAU. TOP 30 THE FULL LIST (Including Release details) […]
TOP 30 – NOVEMBER 7, 2018: VOL.10 NO.36

AN AUSTRALIAN AFFAIR: CYANIDE THORNTON’S “HOT AIR” HITS TOP SPOT; HIGHEST DEBUTS FOR SO. CRATES, NELSON DIALECT & ALNITAK KID’S “BLACK TAPES” & JULIET FOX’S “ROBOTIC MODE”* TOP 30 THE FULL LIST (Including Release details) 1. CYANIDE THORNTON (AUS) – Hot Air from the album Cyanide Thornton (Bedroom Suck/Remote Control/Cargo/Omnian Music Group). 2. MARIE DAVIDSON (CAN) […]
TOP 30 – OCTOBER 24, 2018: VOL.10 NO.34

DEMUIR TO NUMBER ONE AS LADY BLACKTRONIKA PLACES HIGHEST OF NEW ENTRIES TOP 30 THE FULL LIST (Including Release details) 1. DEMUIR(CAN) – How Beautiful You Are from the EP From Black To Technicolour (Music For Freaks) 2. ELLEN ALLIEN (GER) – Take A Stand from the EP Take A Stand (Nonplus) 3. FOXTROTT (CAN) […]
NEW INDEPENDENT FOLK / ROCK / COUNTRY / SINGER-SONGWRITER / AMERICANA & CHAMBER POP- AN INDIE30 PLAYLIST

PLAYLIST UPDATE – OCTOBER 22: We begin this update with the latest single, the ‘Hot Air’ by Melbourne trio Cyanide Thornton who we featured earlier in the week. It’s from their debut album due out November 9 through Bedroom Suck. Immediately following that is Vancouver based and Calgary raised Kirsten Ludwig with ‘Something I Wanted To […]
TOP 30 – OCTOBER 17, 2018: VOL.10 NO.33

FOXTROTT’S ‘DELIVER’ AT NUMBER ONE; CYANIDE THORNTON LEADS EIGHT NEW ENTRIES TOP 30 THE FULL LIST (Including Release details) 1. FOXTROTT (CAN) – Deliver from the album Meditations I-II-III (One Little Indian) 2. SHINICHI ATOBE (JPN) – Heat #1 from the album Heat (DDS) 3. SINGLE LASH (USA) – Frozen Honey from the forthcoming album Deliverance (Holodeck). […]