More than a year after making a pledge to only buy his music from independent record shops, FFS contributor Rory Dollard tells us he’s never looked back. Free-range eggs instead of the battery hen stuff, please. I’ll take some properly…
Record Store Day | Music’s Not Dead, Bexhill-on-Sea
Bexhill-on-Sea: home of the iconic art deco De La Warr Pavilion, a magnificent century-old seafront colonnade, quaint beach huts, and a huge retirement community. Not the most obvious place to open up a new record store. But that is exactly…
Record Store Day | The Drift Record Shop, Totnes, Devon
Rupert Morrison runs the Drift Record Shop in Totnes – a Devon town in between Plymouth and Exeter. We caught up with him about returning to his hometown after living in London, his plans for Record Store Day and how…
Record Store Day | FFS writers on their favourite shops
Most every music fan has one of their own, but as we each get ready to head out and join the queues tomorrow, FFS writers profile a handful of our favourite shops. Spillers Records, Cardiff If you’re looking for authenticity…
Album | M. Ward – A Wasteland Companion
M Ward’s A Wasteland Companion is a graceful, forward thinking work, a natural next step from his previous solo work. It is still his brand of relating his wide musical influence through his unique stylistic filter and he is still…
Album | Lightships – Electric Cables
I spoke recently of my love for indie-pop, well it seems as though Gerard Love was listening because he’s bestowed another gem of guitar-driven pop upon the world. Lightships’ maiden offering, Electric Cables, is a beautiful surprise, one that sneaks…