Trying to get a handle on Hiss Golden Messenger’s fourth album isn’t easy. Named for a river – which gave its name to a now lost Indian tribe – in North Carolina, Haw meanders through an array of different styles.…
#40 Brazos – How The Ranks Was Won
A lot has happened to Martin McNulty Crane since he self-released his first album, Phosperescent Blues, back in 2009. He’s toured with the likes of Grizzly Bear, Shearwater, Vampire Weekend, The National and Iron & Wine, left Austin for Brooklyn,…
News | She & Him unveil ‘I Could’ve Been Your Girl’
She & Him have debuted a new track from their forthcoming third album. Zooey Deschanel and M Ward, the band who defy the ‘Hollywood actors make terrible pop stars’ rule, teased the May 7 release of Volume 3 with a…
News | Paper Aeroplanes and Liz Lawrence added to Wood Festival Bill
The lovely Wood Festival will be taking place in the Chiltern Hills in Oxfordshire on 17th 18th 19th May. We’re very pleased to annouce that Paper Aeroplanes and Liz Lawrence have joined the bill. They’ll be appearing alongside FFS favourites…
#39 Asgeir Trausti – Dýrð í dauðaþögn
Asgeir Trausti is just 20 years of age, but in his home country of Iceland he’s already a pretty big deal. Indeed, as the fastest-selling Icelandic debut artist of all time, a winner of the Kraumur Award and a nominee…
#38 Eels – It’s a Motherfucker
Today is the birthday of one of the most melancholy, beautifully-spirited men in the history of the world to date. Singing Eels frontman Mark Oliver Everett a merry ditty to celebrate the occasion would be profoundly inappropriate, so instead we’ll…