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…
We’ve seen it before, umpteen times, and with a variety of bands of varying nature and design; 17 years in the music industry is an underestimated period of length, and often times, artists find themselves retreading previous trends and past…
A growing trend in 2016’s musical landscape appears to be female singer-songwriters with all of the potential in the world finally ascending beyond past expectations into a lane that is fully their own. We’ve seen it with Sierra Hull’s Weighted…
Benedict Benjamin, aka Ben Rubinstein and formerly of Peggy Sue and Mariner’s Children, is preparing his debut album Night Songs, due for release next month. Listeners to his music – you can hear it yourself below – will recognise among…