Please don’t tell me how the story ends is a collection of Kris Kristofferson’s early recordings and demo’s. Kristofferson is clearly a charismatic man who seems to have lived many lives. In his time he has been a pilot and…
Blog: The Seven Inch Cull by Darren Hayman
The Seven Inch record is a sacred Rubicon on the rock’n’roll trail; a talisman that represents all that is tiny, tight and teenage; pop music distilled into a perfect, plastic artifact that can never be denied as the only format…
FFS New Bands Panel: Erica Buettner
The American Erica Buettner has been living in Paris for the past five years, and has clearly soaked up plenty of its influences during that time. But what she says she’s aiming for is something along the lines of Joni…
Cocos Lovers win Schmercury Poll 2010
We’re delighted to announce that the wonderful Cocos Lovers are your choice for our Schmercury Best Album Poll. The Lovers’ debut LP Johannes was shortlisted alongside 11 other albums from the past year, and thanks to a groundswell of internet…
Album: Polly & The Billets Doux – Fiction, Half-Truths And Downright Lies
Polly and the Billets Doux are on dangerous ground. The sort of jazzy blues-rock that is pulled off by the likes of Grace Potter & The Nocturnals and Erin McKeown is hard to do without falling into the twee trap.…
FFS New Bands Panel: Swann
Sadly, it often takes us much longer than we’d like for bands to actually get their reviews published in this section. From first writing to us to actually seeing the panel’s reaction on line can take several weeks. We wish…