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Free mp3 | H. Hawkline give away Black Domino Box ahead of EP release

Free mp3 | H. Hawkline give away Black Domino Box ahead of EP release

Cardiff’s H.Hawkline has announced the release of Black Domino Box EP on 20th August, through the excellent Trash Aesthetics. Once a member of Means Heinz with Sweet Baboo and Cate Le Bon – Huw has roped in his former bandmates to provide backup on this EP. Black Domino Box EP was co-produced by the...

Record Store Day | The FFS shopping guide

Record Store Day | The FFS shopping guide

With over 400 special releases planned, this year’s will easily be the biggest Record Store Day to date. We can’t imagine such a huge array of vinyl will leave anyone short of ideas, but you might just be overwhelmed by it all, so – without wishing to give away our entire shopping lists –...

Listen | Cate Le Bon and Gruff Rhys to release split 7″ for Record Store Day

Listen | Cate Le Bon and Gruff Rhys to release split 7″ for Record Store Day

News continues to come thick and fast as Record Store Day approaches on April 21st. There’s word that the Flaming Lips have used, er, actual blood from Ke$ha and others in the packaging for their release The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, as well as the first listen to Richard Hawley’s single, ‘Leave Your...

Playlist | Brian’s Mixtape #46: the Return of the Owl

Brian the playlist-making owl is home for 2012 and returning to For Folk's Sake

Our pompous old playlist-making owl Brian is back. With some bombastic pose, dubious claims about his whereabouts in the past year and a playlist of 2011's gems. How we've missed the silly thing.

Live | Gruff Rhys & Y Niwl @ Shepherds Bush Empire, London

Live | Gruff Rhys & Y Niwl @ Shepherds Bush Empire, London

Amongst the potted palms of the mobile lobby of Gruff Rhys’s Hotel Shampoo, support band Y Niwl emit wave after wave of their own brand of crystalline surf rock. The Peter Gunn-esque ‘Pedwar’ opens the show, followed by the standout Chwech, a dense-sounding tsunami of a song punctuated by a haunting chord progression from lead...

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