Before Inside Llewyn Davis there was O Brother, Where Art Thou?, another music-based Coen brothers film with a soundtrack masterminded by T Bone Burnett. Among the many, many treats that album has to offer, one of the greatest – and…
You know that we’re big Beautiful South fans here at FFS so it won’t surprise you to hear we have a soft spot for the Housemartins too. Many of their seemingly more gentle tracks – including this 1987 release which…
The band formerly known as (We are) Augustines have dropped the prefix, due to a legal dispute, and created a new record under the simple name, Augustines. Those who were fans of their debut, ‘Rise ye Sunken Ships’ need not…
Inside Llewyn Davis – the latest Coen brothers film which is out this weekend – shows the struggles of a 1960s folk musician trying to make it as a solo artist having previously been part of a duo. It got…
January in the UK means many things, but it always means a heap of TV adverts for holidays in southern California. Sun! Surf! Doom-folk! Wait, what? Okay, so that last one is yet to feature alongside Rob Lowe et al…
We were so blown away when we heard The Drink’s ‘At The Weekend‘ a few weeks back that we just had to make it our Song of the Day immediately – despite the fact we knew nothing whatsoever about the…