by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 with The Deep Hollow
With The Weary Traveler, The Deep Hollow get about doing a whole lot of living. This comes even in the light of lamenting the act of getting older, let alone all of the emotions that tend to come out over the…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 Q&A with James Houlahan
Four albums deep, James Houlahan is still reveling in the wonder and imagination of the record-making process. His new LP, The Wheel Still in Spin, drifts through varied states of being, musically and lyrically evoking the stillness against constant motion…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Interview | Anonymous in the city: Visiting Vienna with Soap&Skin
“Stubenhocker? How do you say this?” Anja Plaschg searches for the word while needlessly apologising for her English. Homebird? “Yes,” she agrees. “I’m a homebird.” As she prepares to release her third studio album as Soap&Skin, we’ve asked Anja to…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 Q&A with Mad Crush
You could say Mad Crush know a thing or two about music. Only years of experience can explain the wry wit and complimentary musicianship of the songs on the band’s forthcoming, self-titled debut album. One part June Carter sassing Johnny…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 Q&A with Nick Dittmeier & the Sawdusters
Southern Indiana musician Nick Dittmeier finds a needed reprieve from the looming presence of loss in his life with his new record All Damn Day (due 26 October). Fronting Nick Dittmeier & the Sawdusters, the singer-songwriter lingers on the omniscient…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 with Ben Fisher
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has rarely been addressed in American music. But on Ben Fisher’s latest release, the Damien Jurado-produced Does the Land Remember Me?, the Seattle-based folk artist—who spent three years living in Israel—dives headfirst into an entire concept album on…
by Tan the Man • • Comments Off on Interview | Electro-folk duo Saint Sister dish on their debut LP, ‘Shape of Silence’
After a second straight South by Southwest appearance in Austin, Texas earlier this year, Irish electric-folk duo Saint Sister is ready for its close-up. Its long-awaited full-length debut Shape of Silence comes out 5 October, which the duo will support…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 Q&A with Loren Cole
If there is one thing you can learn from Loren Cole, it’s to question everything. The singer-songwriter came of age in the digital world, but even she finds the whole social media landscape a bit exhausting. Her debut album, For the Sake of…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 Q&A with John Smith
Around this time last month, John Smith dropped the first tune from off of a forthcoming, soon-to-be-officially-announced album. ‘Willy Moore’ is an old-time American folk classic of uncertain origins, likely to have been written sometime during the early 1900s. Smith…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 with Lindsay Kay
L.A. by way of Canada singer-songwriter Lindsay Kay puts forth a collection of songs centered around womanhood and femininity on her debut LP, For the Feminine, by the Feminine (out Oct. 5). The project was made start-to-finish by women and…