Having just finished her sell-out Cathedral tour across the UK celebrating the third (and most recent) album: ‘A Creature I Don’t Know’, Laura Marling has announced she will be supporting Florence Welch (+ The Machine) on the 4th December, as…
Awesome label and lovely chaps Trash Aesthetics have announced a split single release between Cardiff’s H.Hawkline and Londonites My Sad Captains. The 7″ features ‘You Say You Love Me’ by H. Hawkline and ‘Little Joanne’ by My Sad Captains. Each copy…
Product of folkie favourite Jeremy Warmsley and writer Elizabeth Sankey, Summer Camp will release their debut album Welcome to Condale on 31st October. It’s synthy and retro and full of great tunes. You can stream the album now on Soundcloud.…
Robert Pollard’s Guided By Voices have announced a new double A-side single, ‘The Unsinkable Fats Domino’/’We Won’t Apologise’. It will be released on Matador on November 21st. It will be followed by an album, Let’s Go Eat the Factory, which…
After the release of this album “A Turn In the Dream-Songs” on Rough Trade a couple of weeks ago. New York pro-folk legend Jeffrey Lewis is heading out on tour across the UK. The album was recorded in the UK…
FFS is sorry, very sorry, to be bringing you Christmas news this early*. We don’t want you to think of us like Tesco, ringing out cynical jingle bells from mid-October, or Boots pushing their Christmas sandwiches when it’s still balmy…
Devon Sproule has won our alternative Mercury best album poll The Schmercury Award for her record I Love You, Go Easy’. 1,524 of you chose the Virginian songwriter’s album who beat second place Dark Dark Dark – Wild Go by…
Portraits of Emmy the Great, Dan Mangan, Iron & Wine and Anna Calvi feature in London-based figurative painter Joe Simpson’s exhibition ‘Musician Portraits’ opening next month. The paintings will be on display from 14th – 30th October at a temporary…
Earlier this week, Laura Marling and her band were invited to BBC Radio 2 to perform a concert at Maida Vale Studios. The band played 15 songs. Most were from new record A Creature I Don’t Know, but the set…
Brilliant, ethical ticket resale website Scarlett Mist has been forced to close down by fraudsters selling fake tickets. The website matched ticket sellers with eager gig-goers and stipulated that tickets must be resold at face value. Website owners Richard and…