Swing Lo Magellan, the sixth studio album by Brooklyn-based Dirty Projectors, provides the latest look into the weird and wonderful musical mind of band leader Dave Longstreth, continuing his exploration for more obscure and eccentric sounds, counterbalanced with a sense…
Interview | Introducing…Melodica Melody and Me
Hello, please introduce yourself and your music to the uninitiated. We are Melodica Melody and Me, a four-piece band from South London pioneering the charango and melodica. We play folk music with Latin American influences and sound as fresh as…
News | JD McPherson releases second single
JD McPherson has released his second single from his recent album ‘Signs and Signifiers‘, titled “Your Love (All that I’m Missing)” Being the penultimate song of McPherson’s debut album (and a personal favourite of mine), the song kicks off with…
Festival | No Direction Home 2012
For anyone who like End of the Road, the prospect was tantalising. A festival that had toilets, bands and comedy like End of the Road but also was smaller, by a lake, up North and in June. And we were…
Live | Tallest Man on Earth @ Hackney Empire, 3rd July 2012
To (mis)quote Blur ‘I think he’d like to have been Jimmy Page but then nature didn’t make him that way’. That’s the impression The Tallest Man on Earth (aka Kristian Matsson) gave as he stalked, strutted and swaggered his way…
New Bands Panel | Boletes – FLAWS
Welcome to the New Bands Panel, where our writers profile promising new artists on For Folk’s Sake’s radar. We want to know what you think of @boletes- thoughts on twitter to @forfolkssake please! Rosy Ross: What on earth, you may ask…