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Bob Dylan performs traditional folk ballad for first time in 34 years
He last played 'The Lakes Of Pontchartrain' in 1991, but dusted off the track in Ireland last weekend

Joni Mitchell to be honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award at 2026 Juno Awards
Meanwhile, Nelly Furtado will be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall Of Fame

Kings Of Leon, Neil Young, The Lumineers and more for inaugural State Fayre – the UK’s largest music and barbecue festival
The new Essex festival celebrates rock, country, folk and Americana

Neil Young announces outdoor UK tour for 2026
New shows include stops in Manchester, Glasgow and Cardiff

Happy Halloween – here’s Lankum’s haunting cover of The Specials’ ‘Ghost Town’
The band originally covered the song for Oona Doherty's dance show 'Specky Clark' earlier this year

Neil Young attacks Donald Trump and “looting oligarchs” Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk in new ‘As Time Explodes’ video
The ‘Harvest Moon’ singer is a long-standing critic of the current US president, and recently hit out at him with the song ‘Big Crime’

Mumford & Sons announce new album ‘Prizefighter’ featuring Gracie Abrams, Hozier and Chris Stapleton
“We feel like we’re hitting our prime as a creative force"

Mac DeMarco announces summer 2026 UK and European tour
This includes three nights at London's O2 Brixton, as well as stops in cities such as Glasgow, Berlin and Vienna

Watch Mumford & Sons cover Gracie Abrams and play new Hozier collab ‘Rubber Band Man’ in the Radio 1 Live Lounge
The band head out on a European and UK tour next week

Watch Lana Del Rey cover Neil Young’s ‘The Needle and the Damage Done’
She was performing at Harvest Moon – an annual benefit concert headlined by Young in Lake Hughes, California

White House responds to ‘Little Green Worm’, Joan Baez’s scathing poem about Donald Trump
The poem imagines that a worm is eating its way through Trump's brain, stripping him of empathy and impulse control

Mumford & Sons and Hozier team up for stirring new single ‘Rubber Band Man’
The song was produced by The National's Aaron Dessner