Our favourite Australian songstress Emily Barker is on the road as part of the revival tour. It’s a five week European jaunt with a slew of other artists, full of collaboration, covers and singalongs. After her last blog, in which…
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Artist blog | Emily Barker on Cory Branan
Our favourite Australian songstress Emily Barker is on the road as part of the revival tour. It’s a five week European jaunt with a slew of other artists, full of collaboration, covers and singalongs. Emily’s blogging about the tour for…
Artist blog | Emily Barker on the Revival Tour
Our favourite Australian songstress Emily Barker is on the road as part of the revival tour. It’s a five week European jaunt with a slew of other artists, full of collaboration, covers and singalongs. Emily’s agreed to blog about the…
Blog | For Folk’s Sake on 6 Music’s Now Playing
Tom Robinson and his team kindly invited us to pick some tracks for his Now Playing show tonight. It’s always so exciting to get to work with 6 Music. The station does such a wonderful service for new music, and…
Blog | Not at Green Man Festival?
For those of us who aren’t at Green Man this weekend, we’ve put together a Spotify playlist for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own home. Maybe listen to it in the bath to really bite your thumb…
Blog | Recommended artist: Foreign Fields
I’ve been listening to this obsessively since I stumbled across it. The record is from Nashville-via-Wisconsin band Foreign Fields, formerly known as Flights. Eric Hillman and Brian Holl are the brains behind Foreign Fields. They describe their music as electronic…
Blog | New favourite band: I Am Oak
Here is everything we know about I Am Oak: – The band is based around a songwriter called Thijs Kuijken – He is from Utrecht in the Netherlands – Their website is here: iamoak.com – You can listen to their albums…
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…
Record Store Day | Taking The Pledge: Why Independent Record Shops Are Best
More than a year after making a pledge to only buy his music from independent record shops, FFS contributor Rory Dollard tells us he’s never looked back. Free-range eggs instead of the battery hen stuff, please. I’ll take some properly…
Record Store Day | FFS writers on their favourite shops
Most every music fan has one of their own, but as we each get ready to head out and join the queues tomorrow, FFS writers profile a handful of our favourite shops. Spillers Records, Cardiff If you’re looking for authenticity…