Half German, half American, living in Southampton, Anja McCloskey is a musician without borders. Wherever you put her music, it always sounds like it comes from somewhere else. Maybe somewhere European, perhaps a bit Russian or French Canada or some…
Stream | Debut album from Lucy Rose – Like I Used To
Like I Used To is the debut album from For Folk’s Sake favourite Lucy Rose. Haling from Warwickshire, we first heard Lucy when she leant her vocals to Bombay Bicycle Club, on their 2010 album Flaws. She has since released…
Exclusive | Paper Aeroplanes offer free download of new EP track
FFS favourites Paper Aeroplanes are readying a new EP to be released in November, and to celebrate they’re offering a free download of the title track ‘Time To Be’. Time to Be by Paper Aeroplanes The EP will be available…
Album | Alexander Wolfe – Skeletons
There is a moment just over a minute into Separated By A Smile, the closing track from Alexander Wolfe’s second album, when a lone trumpet is introduced – subtly at first, gradually coming to the fore as the song progresses…
Live | Lisa Marie Presley, Ed Harcourt, Luke Sital-Singh, Polly Paulusma @ The Society of the Golden Slippers
It’s a quiet Monday night in Soho and we somehow find ourselves at what must surely be the most exclusive gig in town. We arrive in time for folk stalwart, Polly Paulusma, the small British girl with a southern American…
News | The Avett Brothers announce new album
The Avett Brothers have announced the release of a new album titled ‘The Carpenter’, to be released on 5th November 2012 via Island Records. The band follow up their 2009 breakthrough record ‘I and Love and You’ with yet another…