Much of what we welcome under the banner of folk music would have rejected the tag in the not-too-distant past, preferring instead to go by acoustic or indie or nu-something-or-other. The Big Eyes Family Players, though, are folk through and…
Compilation | Just Tell Me That You Want Me – A Fleetwood Mac Tribute
For a band with such an inspirational back catalogue, it is a crying shame that many of the young generations would not know ‘Tusk’ or ‘Go Your Own Way’ unless it appeared on an episode of Glee or Geordie Shore…
Interview | Introducing…Josephine
Hearing Josephine Oniyama for the first time made us very happy indeed, and forthcoming single ‘What A Day’ had us dancing around and telling all our friends how ace it was. This bodes very well indeed for her debut album…
Will Oldham – An Appreciation
The word ‘legend’ is rarely as acutely appropriate to a musician as it is to Will Oldham. It is so useful not because of stature, but because of mythologizing, because of the whole hagiography, the deifying of the thing. In…
Interview | Introducing….The Fallows
Hello, please introduce yourself and your music to the uninitiated. The Fallows are a Midlands/London-based band. We play foot-stomping country folk laced with Celtic fiddle with a rock attitude. We’ve been compared to the Avett brothers/the Levellers and the Waterboys…
News | The Staves announce headline tour
FFS are horribly excited to hear that the Staves have announced the dates of a new UK and Ireland Headline Tour. These three wonderful sisters will release their debut album “Dead and Born and Grown” through Atlantic Records on 22nd…