You could be forgiven for thinking we only like Dead Man’s Bones cos it’s Ryan Gosling’s musical project with Zach Shields, but you’d be wrong. Their 2009 self-titled album features an unnerving children’s choir accompanying Gosling and Shields on 12…
The Dodos have announced a major European tour, including the briefest of trips to the UK, to promote their new album Carrier. Meric Long and Logan Kroeber’s fifth LP, and their first since the death of touring guitarist Chris Reimer early last…
It is said that many years ago in the village of Keston, in the London Borough of Bromley, the local cobbler would spend the evenings playing his fiddle to the raucous village rabble. The music he played was so foot-stomping…
Barrow-in-Furness, the shipbuilding ‘cul-de-sac town’ of Cumbria is, by his own admission, responsible for shaping many of Jon Byrne’s tales. On his impressive first album, It’s Boring Being in Control, these were tales of a working-class existence consisting of neighbours…
It’s hard to imagine their are many FFS readers who won’t be excited, intrigued or at the very least mildly interested to hear new material from Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon. That the new material comes not from Bon Iver but…
Behind every great festival is a great person – Glastonbury may have Michael Eavis, but Cambridge Folk Festival has Eddie Barcan. Now Manager and Artistic Director, his involvement began in 1990, since which time the festival has grown into the…