Anybody at any one of the many folk music festivals this summer can’t have failed to notice the numbers of youngsters swanning about almost non-ironically in 1950s garb. The beatnik look is back, but the sounds, by and large, remain…
If you thought Leona Lewis singing the Snow Patrol track was the definitive song called ‘Run’, then think again. Listen to this. That’s not to say Rhodes’ track doesn’t share certain things in common with its illustrious namesake – there’s…
Born and bred in a Yorkshire mining village, Padraig Whelan makes music as honest, fresh and beautiful as the surroundings he grew up in (we’re guessing – writing this from South London, everything north of Watford sounds idyllic). Elegiac, dreamy…
It’s no secret that we think Worry Dolls are pretty special, so we’re delighted that Feldspar agree with us. The London-based five-piece have produced a series of videos filmed in empty venues, called, well, ‘Songs From Empty Venues’. In the…
‘Where Did I Leave That Fire?’ asks Neko Case on the penultimate song on her sixth solo studio album, the long-awaited follow-up to 2009’s double Grammy-winning ‘Middle Cyclone’. The good news is that it burns as fiercely as ever on…
Photo © Will Clayton Dear readers, It has come the day when our wonderful cyber-friend For Folk’s Sake, the music critique glue which brings us all closer together, celebrates its fifth birthday. Obviously such frivolous celebrations are unlikely to move…