Have you done your homework ahead of Record Store Day? With more than 500 releases on their way this Saturday there is a mass of stuff to get your teeth into, but if you’re running out of time before heading…
Record Store Day | Shopping Guide A-J
Author: Ian Parker
Ian is For Folk's Sake's reviews editor. Find him on Twitter @iparky.
Playlist | Matthew & The Atlas pick their favourite artists
Matthew & the Atlas are ready to return with their fine new record Temple, which is due out on April 22 via Communion. Written in his home studio in Farnborough but recorded in East Nashville with electronic folk duo Foreign…
Session premiere | Sam Jordan & The Dead Boys – Sister
The first thing that strikes you is Sam Jordan’s incredible voice. We could waste time comparing his rich baritone with some other outstanding crooners, but we’re wagering that if we wait a little while he’ll become a reference point himself.…
Premiere | Long Tall Jefferson – Pharaoh
Long Tall Jefferson has taken a long road to delivering his debut album. Described as a ‘wanderer by trade’, he’s collected the songs which make up I Want My Honey Back during travels which have seen him living in Berlin,…
Listen | Exclusive full album stream of Take Berlin’s Schoharie
Your average folk group does not come together by bonding over soul music and hip hop, but then Take Berlin are not your average folk group. Yvonne and Jesse first met back in 2011, forming a musical bond that has…
Video Premiere | Mara Simpson – Keep Holding On
Mara Simpson calls Watamu, Wellington, Berlin and Brighton home, which might explain why her sound is so difficult to pin down. Big, soulful vocals play out over a blend of folk and blues, while she uses her unique background to…
Video Premiere | Radical Face – Secrets (Cellar Door)
Radical Face, AKA Ben Cooper, will release The Family Tree: The Leaves next week, the third and final instalment in his Family Tree series which has documented the lives of a fictional family spanning over a century (The Roots was…
Video premiere | James Edge & The Mindstep – On a Red Horse (NSFW)
If you find yourself frustrated by a sense that the ‘folk’ label has been snatched by more and more mainstream artists and twisted into something bland and unadventurous, a catch-all label for anything with an acoustic guitar, how do you…
Premiere | Gonzalla – Heart
Fans of Stealing Sheep and others may be familiar with this chap from a handful of support slots around the UK, but for the uninitiated, allow us to introduce southern California’s Gonzalla. Actually a chap named Cody, Gonzalla grew up…
Session | Hear Joe Innes & The Cavalcade’s ‘Moscow’ as they launch crowd-funding campaign
What do you do if you have, as Joe Innes puts it, “written a metric eff tonne of songs” that need turning into an album? You launch a crowd-funding campaign to get it off the ground. That’s exactly what Joe…