THE MAC ARE BACK! FFS are super excited about the return of Fleetwood Mac. Up til recently we thought our only interaction with the band would be singing along to Sara at the top of our lungs and defending them to any haters (or ‘idiots’, as we call them). But no! Now we get...
Are you asking? Then Nancy Elizabeth is dancing. The Wigan singer has unveiled an alternative version of the track ‘Simon Says Dance’, one of the stand-outs from her new album Dancing, released later this month. Lyrically it’s a playful track, which begins: “We may think we’ve not met before but we’ve danced out our...
The Magic Numbers are heading out on their first ever acoustic tour later this year as they prepare for the release of their fourth album. The four-piece are avoiding many of the usual live music hot spots and are instead hitting smaller towns, playing a selection of theatres, churches and alternative venues. The band...
Seminal 90s indie stars Neutral Milk Hotel have announced a series of reunion shows for the end of the year. The Athens, Georgia quartet, whose classic 1998 album In The Aeroplane Over The Sea was fourth in Pitchfork’s top 100 albums of the 1990s, will play three American shows in October and dates in...
Laura Marling has composed the music for a new production of Shakespeare's As You Like It, which opened on Wednesday in Stratford-upon-Avon.
‘Say what you like about that Sgt Bilko fella, but he sure plays a mean banjo!’ So goes the conversation among agents and studio bosses in all the most exclusive Hollywood bars every time Steve Martin strolls by, usually without even a nod of acknowledgement. He doesn’t need those bloodsuckers any more. During the...
It’s almost that time again. Record Store Day 2013 is tomorrow, 20th April. So whether you’re planning to line up outside your local record shop from the crack of dawn, or just saunter down mid-afternoon to see what you can hoover up, here is the FFS guide to some of the more interesting releases...
The For Folk's Sake team live tweeted our first listen of Laura Marling's forthcoming album Once I Was An Eagle. Read our knee-jerk reactions here...
Laura Marling has released a second taster of her fourth album Once I Was An Eagle, which will be released on 27th May. This is ‘Master Hunter’, streamed via The Guardian.
Mumford & Sons are to headline a day of music at the site of the 2012 Olympics this summer. Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros and Vampire Weekend are also on the bill for the show which will take place at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on July 6. The event is part of...
#83 Keston Cobblers' Club - Beam May 25th, 2013
#82 Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues May 24th, 2013
#81 Beck Lanehart - Last Man Down May 23rd, 2013