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We’ll not be having this. Oh no.
This morning, Mark Thompson, Director General of the BBC, announced to staff that the rumoured cuts to BBC programming are indeed to take place. 6 Music will close some time around the end of 2011, along with the BBC Asian…
The super-duper folks who run End of the Road have added some more stunners to their already rather exciting 2010 line-up. Joining Wilco, Diane Cluck, The Mountain Goats, AA Bondy, The Low Anthem and The Wilderness of Manitoba are Iron…
One of our favourite singer-songwriters Emmy the Great is standing up for the reportedly doomed digital radio station BBC 6 music. Emmy used her twitter and mailing list to point out that the BBC’s reason behind the proposed closure of…
CocoRosie, comprising two incredible, operatically talented, electronically experimental sisters, have announced the details of their fourth studio album, Grey Oceans, due for UK release in May. Sierra and Bianca will also be gracing our shores in that month (along with…
Fresh from touring with First Aid Kit, Alessi’s Ark and Racheal Dadd, Adelaide’s Cape will be releasing their debut EP ‘Last Sleep In Albion’ at The Luminaire on 6th March. For the first time, they’ll be playing their lo-fi folk…
One lucky FFS reader will win two free tickets to Thursday (25th Feb) night’s Kassidy, Andrew Davie, Anna Calvi and Lulu and the Lampshades gig at Hoxton Bar and Kitchen. The bands will be joined by Blue Flowers DJs and…
In case you’ve not noticed the excited rumblings, murmurings, and occasional excited yelps surrounding this mystery band for the new decade, let us introduce you to Summer Camp. With identities more shrouded in mystery than even the most meticulous of…
The lineup for Matt Groening’s ATP keeps looking better and better. For a while FFS thought we were going to be able to go, then we looked down at our rubbish skin and bones and stuff and realised we are…
The utter wonder that is Rufus Wainwright has announced he is to release his 6th studio album of original music.
All Days Are Nights: Songs For Lulu will be released on 5th April in the UK.
Since his last studio album Release The Stars Rufus has been concentrating on a plethora of other projects, including his opera Prima Donna — which premiered in Manchester last year — and the environmental campaign Blackoutsabbath.