Peggy Sue are celebrating this scorchio weather by giving away a free mp3 of their cover of Heatwave. The song is taken from brilliant new album The Songs of Scorpio Rising. It’s Rough Trade’s album of the week and the…
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News | Download free Mountain Goats single from new album Transcendental Youth
Exciting thing! FFS is failing to contain itself because THE MOUNTAIN GOATS are giving away a free single from their new album Transcendental Youth. It’s called ‘Cry For Judas’ and features SpaceBomb Records horns arranged by Matthew E. White. Listen…
News | Get your last-minute tickets to the Cambridge Folk Festival
If you’re free this weekend, team FFS’s advice is to get yourself over to the Cambridge Folk Festival website and snap up their last remaining tickets for this weekend’s event. There are still places for Friday, when you can see…
Festivals | Cambridge Folk Festival – Part Une
Thursday sees the equivalent of a religious holiday for the folk world kick off as the Cambridge Folk Festival opens for its 48th year. One of the longest-running in the UK, the CFF was first held in 1965 and featured…
FFS LIVE | Come and see Bard in East London this Wednesday
You are cordially invited to a very special For Folk’s Sake show at The Gallery Cafe in East London this Wednesday 25 July. The wonderful Bard will be playing. You can listen to their beautiful album The Springtime Fool below.…
Exclusive | Stream Luke Ritchie’s new album The Water’s Edge
Luke Ritchie’s debut album The Water’s Edge has no ordinary back story. Back in 2010, the songwriter challenged himself to write one song a week for six months, post the results online, and see what happened. After getting a huge…
News | Mumford & Sons announce details of second album
Mumford & Sons have just released the official details for their second album: something that is to be one of the most hotly anticipated records this year. Titled ‘Babel‘, the album will be released via Gentlemen of the Road/Island Records,…
News | Kathryn Williams & The Pond offer to play in fans’ front rooms
Kathryn Williams & The Pond really want you to sign up for their mailing list. To demonstrate just how keen they are, the band are running a special competition, offering a lucky handful of the newly registered the chance to…
Listen | Hear a track from Beth Orton’s first album in six years
At long, long last Beth Orton will release a new album in October, with Sugaring Season to be her first studio record in six years, and you can hear the track ‘Something More Beautiful’ below. The album, recorded in Portland,…
News | JD McPherson releases second single
JD McPherson has released his second single from his recent album ‘Signs and Signifiers‘, titled “Your Love (All that I’m Missing)” Being the penultimate song of McPherson’s debut album (and a personal favourite of mine), the song kicks off with…