First of all, MERRY CHRISTMAS FOLK FANS! I hope you’re reading this full up and content. Secondly, I’d like to say an enormous thank you to everyone who has contributed to, bought and supported For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2011. It’s been brilliant. We’re so stoked to have so many of our favourite bands...
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Having finally cleared out all the big boxes of the For Folk’s Sake It’s Christmas 2011 CDs (thanks everybody for making the CD a total sell-out, and remember if you missed out, downloads are still available!) we finally had a chance to clear out our inboxes at FFS and stumbled upon several exciting sounds...
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Hello, the internet! And a very Happy Halloween to you. I hope you haven’t been coercered into watchingn – then subsequently jolly freaked out by – a very scary film, like us here at FFS HQ.* On this, the spookiest of days, some of our favourite musicans have taken it upon themselves to help...
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Since launching the New Bands Panel a couple of years ago, FFS has featured well over 100 emerging artists and discovered some absolute treats along the way. We do our best to keep up with what a lot of them are getting up to and recently heard from a handful of those who highlighted...
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I’ve been on a mission to clear out my inbox. It’s not something I manage to do very often. Indeed, I’m approaching the two-year anniversary of the last time I found the bottom. But anyway, it turns out there were some treats lurking in there, assorted sounds that caught the attention. Here they are....
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I’m on a bit of a Dolly Parton kick at the moment. It started with a late night rummage around YouTube looking for clips of her 70s TV variety show Dolly!. And has been made even stronger thanks to an excellent Radio 4 documentary about her worldwide programme to get underprivileged children reading. Seriously....
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Two kinds of people in this world: those who would gladly take a bullet for Diana Ross, and unfeeling cyborgs who feast on the innocent...
Look, I don't know about you, but I'm going to mailorder me some fresh death metal...
So many films fall short because their screenwriters forget to include an evil cult leader...
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Johnny Flynn free EP & Amazon session, Broadcast 2000's Regina Spektor cover, How Caitlin Rose wrote Own Side Now, Free Anni Rossi download, Nick Hemming's hit-making guitar, We <3 Mara Carlyle, Snoop round Alela Diane's pad.
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So you probably already knew Kimya Dawson was an awesome songwriter and lyricist, ex-Moldy Peach, soundtrack composer, Bundles member, mother to Panda and entertainer of children via Alphabutt. But you’re likely to be unaware of her talent for bashing out a haikus at a rate of 27 an hour, until now. …and here it...
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If you’ve had even half an eye on the website of late, you’ll have noticed an absolute ton of reviews. It’s that time of year when the releases come thick and fast ahead of the summer and we’re doing our best just to keep up. But that doesn’t mean we’ve not also had our...
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