For Civil Wars fans, there’s good news and bad news. Six months after the band called an unceremonious halt to their European tour to take a break amid “internal discord“, Joy Williams and John Paul White have announced a self-titled…
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Listen now | New EP from Fleetwood Mac
THE MAC ARE BACK! FFS are super excited about the return of Fleetwood Mac. Up til recently we thought our only interaction with the band would be singing along to Sara at the top of our lungs and defending them…
News | Nancy Elizabeth puts on dancing shoes with new track
Are you asking? Then Nancy Elizabeth is dancing. The Wigan singer has unveiled an alternative version of the track ‘Simon Says Dance’, one of the stand-outs from her new album Dancing, released later this month. Lyrically it’s a playful track,…
News | Magic Numbers hit the road
The Magic Numbers are heading out on their first ever acoustic tour later this year as they prepare for the release of their fourth album. The four-piece are avoiding many of the usual live music hot spots and are instead…
News | Neutral Milk Hotel announce comeback tour
Seminal 90s indie stars Neutral Milk Hotel have announced a series of reunion shows for the end of the year. The Athens, Georgia quartet, whose classic 1998 album In The Aeroplane Over The Sea was fourth in Pitchfork’s top 100…
News | Laura Marling composes music for Shakespeare play
Laura Marling has composed the music for a new production of Shakespeare’s As You Like It, which opened on Wednesday in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Album | Steve Martin and Edie Brickell – Love Has Come For You
‘Say what you like about that Sgt Bilko fella, but he sure plays a mean banjo!’ So goes the conversation among agents and studio bosses in all the most exclusive Hollywood bars every time Steve Martin strolls by, usually without…
Record Store Day | The FFS Shopping Guide 2013 (part 1)
It’s almost that time again. Record Store Day 2013 is tomorrow, 20th April. So whether you’re planning to line up outside your local record shop from the crack of dawn, or just saunter down mid-afternoon to see what you can…
Live tweet | Laura Marling – Once I Was An Eagle
The For Folk’s Sake team live tweeted our first listen of Laura Marling’s forthcoming album Once I Was An Eagle. Read our knee-jerk reactions here…
News | Stream new Laura Marling track ‘Master Hunter’
Laura Marling has released a second taster of her fourth album Once I Was An Eagle, which will be released on 27th May.
This is ‘Master Hunter’, streamed via The Guardian.