A film about Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros and Old Crow Medicine Show’s railroad trip across America will be debuted at SXSW. Big Easy Express documents the Railroad Revival Tour the bands embarked on in April last year. Playing sold out shows in 6 cities – from San Francisco to...
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The lovely Fránçois & the Atlas Mountain have put together a gorgeous cover of the Slow Club track Gold Mountain, and Slow Club are due to repay the favour. Listen here: Slow Club’s Rebecca said of the cover: “I really love it, Fránçois (obviously) found funk where we didn’t even realise there was funk!”...
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Austrian Anja Plaschg has announced the release of a new mini-album on March 19th. Self-played and produced, Narrow follows Soap & Skin’s debut album Lovetune for Vacuum, which was released in 2009. The record features ‘Vater’, a song about her father, who died suddenly of a stroke in July 2009. Tracklisting 1. Vater 2....
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Sons of Noel and Adrian have announced a UK tour this Spring as they prepare to release their second album Knots. The band will hit the road in April with five dates, touring an album that promises to see them move on from the acoustic tone of their debut and crank up the amplifiers....
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Hot on the heels of announcing his departure from Fleet Foxes, J. Tillman has unveiled the first sounds from his new project Father John Misty, offering up a free download and a video for ‘Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings’, and talking at length about what has led to this new stage in his career. The...
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We at FFS are starting to get very excited about Bella Union’s latest signing, New York-based singer Hannah Cohen. She’s given us a teaser of debut album Child Bride, due in April, in the form of the beautiful ‘The Crying Game’. Cohen’s haunting vocals will grab you straight away, while the delicate guitar work...
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Admiral Fallow have given us the first taste of the follow up to their cracking debut album Boots Met My Face by offering a free download of new single ‘Beetle In The Box’. Click here to get the track. The track, which was debuted on Huw Stephens’ Radio 1 show before going live on...
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Following the success of her debut album “Songs for the Ravens”, Julie Ann Baenziger (or better known as Sea of Bees), has announced the release of her second album titled; “Orangefarben”. The album is set to be released on the 9th April 2012, and contains 10 solid tracks highlighted with guitar, bass and lots...
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After three years spent on his side-projects She & Him and Monsters of Folk, M Ward will return to solo duty this April with the release of his sixth album A Wasteland Companion on Bella Union. The album is being billed as a musical travelogue after months spent on the road in support of...
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Fleet Foxes fans got some good news last night with word of new music via Poor Moon, the new side-project of Christian Wargo and Casey Wescott, but now there is word that drummer J. Tillman has left the band. Tillman, who joined the Foxes in 2008 after the recording of their debut self-titled album...
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