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…
For their first outing post-Foxes!, Adam Bell and Alan Grice appear to have channelled the twin influences of Friedrich Nietzsche and Stephen Malkmus. With their old band on hiatus, Bell and Grice have teamed up with Alan Odgers and Tom Matthews…
Some people think folk music is all men with beards playing acoustic guitars and clapping. These people are idiots, but just to be on the safe side, don’t show them ‘Shed A Little Light’ by Winter Mountain, which is two…
It’s fair to say that we at Team FFS bend to no-one in our love of Anais Mitchell’s Hadestown. So while some some might be put off by an EP with the title Alexander the Great: a Folk Operetta ? Act…
Magic Arm – AKA Marc Rigelsford – has an a distinctly lo-fi attitude to music production. After releasing his first EP, a truly bedroom affair, he ventured into the studio to record debut full-length, Make Lists, Do Something, an electro-folk…