To many people, country music has a bad name. Folks don’t like to admit to liking it most of the time. But it has a strong influence in the folk revival that has cheered us all in recent times, so…
Stage times for Sunday’s Bandstand Busking with Slow Club, Johnny Flynn and Broadcast 2000 revealed
Bandstand Busking have announced the stage times for the second of their two appearances at Richard Thompson’s Meltdown festival. The free gig takes place in the Clore Ballroom in the Royal Festival Hall this Sunday, with an incredibly FFS-friendly line-up…
FFS New Bands Panel: Little Man Lost
Little Man Lost is, he claims, waiting to meet a penguin so he can form a band. In the meantime, he records in his bedroom in Erfurt, Germany, using all manner of fancy toys to produce a sound which is…
Free Eels download, tour and album news
Mark Oliver Everett’s Eels are offering a free download from their 2nd album in a year, Tomorrow Morning, due for release on 23 August. The album is the third in the trilogy that began with Hombre Lobo and continued with…
Iron & Wine, Wilco and Modest Mouse confirm for Open House Festival
As if it wasn’t looking exciting enough already, Belfast’s Open House Festival has announced a dream team of additions to its line up: Modest Mouse, Wilco and Iron & Wine. They join the already brilliant line up which includes Field…
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan return with third album
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan, the pair that brought us the briliant album Ballad of Broken Seas in 2006 and the really quite good Sunday at Devil Dirt in 2008, return with a new album in 2010, titled Hawk. Isobel…