by the Leisure Society, Dark Dark Dark, Sean Keavney, Tom Robinson, Emmy the Great, Ellen & the Escapades, Michele Stodart, Tom McRae, Broadcast 2000, Anika Mottershaw, Georgia Ruth, Natalie Roberts
Interview | Introducing…Ninette and the Goldfish
With beautiful EP, Words From the Deep Down, released earlier this year, we thought it was high time to take a peek into the goldfish bowl…. Hello, please introduce yourself and your music to the uninitiated. We’re Nina Thomas and…
Festivals | The FFS Guide to Bushstock
For those of you heading down to old Shepherd’s Bush this weekend, we thought we’d write up a little guide of what we recommend you see: be it the good, the unknown, or our all-time favourites. This year, Shepherd’s Bush…
Album | Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart – Dedication
Dedication seems a fitting title for a Stacey Earle album. Steve Earle’s sister has been writing and recording with her husband Mark Stuart for two decades now, playing up to 170 gigs a year and putting out albums on their…
Interview | Canal tours, Easter bunny heads and dancing girls – the weird and wonderful world of Skinny Lister
Skinny Lister are a quaint folk band with a bit of everything. Siblings, concertinas, a complementary dance troupe called the Skinny Sisters… they tick all of the folk boxes. Their music is charming and rousing and their gigs are rowdy.…
Album | Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Here
It’s three years since the former front man of dance-punkers Ima Robot Alex Ebert rebranded himself as Edward Sharpe and joined up with the sprawling Magnetic Zeros to deliver an eccentric, magical ride of west coast psychedelia. Since then, in…