When singer-songwriter Stewart Bronaugh quit his job as a day labourer in both Chicago and San Francisco and returned to his native Nashville, he decided to resurrect a project he’d originally started back in 2010. He hooked up with drummer…
Steve Mason’s plumbed the range of human emotions in recent years. Once of High Fidelity-featuring, boiler-suited experimentalists The Beta Band, his last album was 2013’s double-length Monkey Minds In The Devil’s Time. That was a skulking, snarling, dog of a…
Fans of Stealing Sheep and others may be familiar with this chap from a handful of support slots around the UK, but for the uninitiated, allow us to introduce southern California’s Gonzalla. Actually a chap named Cody, Gonzalla grew up…
What do you do if you have, as Joe Innes puts it, “written a metric eff tonne of songs” that need turning into an album? You launch a crowd-funding campaign to get it off the ground. That’s exactly what Joe…
Birthed in Athens, Georgia, in the shadow of alternative heroes Neutral Milk Hotel and alt-country dons the Drive-By Truckers, Mothers was originally conceived as front woman’s Kristine Leschper’s solo project whilst studying printmaking back in 2013. After a bout of…
Those of you who followed the FFS Advent Calendar will remember Mairearad Green’s track ‘Blessing On Tanera‘ as one of the many treats included, and now the release of her debut album Summer Isles is just about upon us. Mairearad’s…