Dan Mangan’s brilliant second album Nice, Nice Very Nice (reviewed here) is set for it’s UK release on Arts & Crafts next month, and he’ll be hitting the road to celebrate, with dates across England and Scotland. The Canadian songwriter…
Mumford & Sons and Laura Marling in Radio 1 showcase – apply for tickets
Laura Marling, The Maccabees and Bombay Bicycle Club will perform at BBC Radio 1 Presents… Mumford & Sons and Friends on 11th October. Celebrating the rise in popularity of British folk artists, the live performances will be followed by a…
FFS New Bands Panel: Colour Masks
There’s no doubting that Samual Higginbotham has created something rather weird under the name of the Colour Masks, but as the panel found out, it’s also occasionally wonderful. James Rutherford: I’m usually suspicious of bands that have fewer friends on…
Album: Antony & the Johnsons – Swanlights
Antony and the Johnsons, the brainchild of Antony Hegarty, are ready to tug at more heartstrings. Swanlights, their fourth album, is the most ambitious and wide-ranging of their recent releases and follows only a year and a half after the…
FFS New Bands Panel: Clarity Kaufmann
A chance meeting between Korean artist Maia Ruth Lee, and British musician Christopher Knowle at a bus stop in Northern Italy gave birth to Clarity Kaufmann, a folk/electro crossover act. We sent in the panel to assess the results. James…
The National and Phosphorescent team up for UK tour
Brooklyn brilliants The National have invited their fellow New Yorkers Phosphorescent on their 17-date European tour. It’s not the first times the bands have teamed up. To promote their latest (and excellent) album, The National took over an empty shop…