It’s hard to believe that the Fleet Foxes could have been The Pineapples. But that name had been taken by another band so Robin Pecknold decided on Fleet Foxes, thinking it was “evocative of some weird activity like fox hunting.”…
Friday, July 20, 2018 In a light drizzle, Chicago’s own The Curls took to the stage at 1 p.m. Blending everything from the B-52s to Frank Zappa, this five-piece band didn’t even notice the weather as they played with abandon. Throwing out…
Cannibal King isn’t the kind of EP title you get on this website all that often… it might even be the first time that a title about eating human flesh has ever appeared on FFS (Not quite! See here). Anyway, when Yesper,…
With a voice and an outlook older than the universe, Robin Pecknold has somehow managed to adopt a Benjamin-Button approach to ageing. He’s turning 27 today, according to official records, but we can be pretty certain this is nonsense. He’s…
Lilliput may already be well known to those of you that hail from the musically-fertile ground of the North East, but, like Newkie Brown, a parmo or Newcastle FC’s transfer policy, the band is now starting to pick up admirers…
After the delights of former-Fleet-Fox Father John Misty, here’s another intriguing offshoot: Poor Moon was founded by Fleet Fox members Christian Wargo and Casey Westcott, with the help of brothers Ian and Peter Murray. The band developed out of Wargo’s…
Those kind folks at the Barbican are offering FFS readers the chance to win two tickets to a very special concert this month. Legendary producer and songwriter Van Dyke Parks* is releasing three of his solo albums Song Cycle (1968),…
Joshua Tillman has left the milk-and-honey kindness of the Fleet Foxes to craft a more rebellious guise for himself as Father John Misty, a kind of lone cowboy in black. The sound will be familiar to Fleet Foxes fans, with…
Good afternoon, friends, Naturally owls know better than to get caught in the rain, so I am fluffed up by the fire with a hot buttered rum. Since you’re probably about to brave the outside with one of those horrific…
Josh Tillman will release his debut album under the Father John Misty guise later this month, and is giving us an advance taste of Fear Fun by offering a free download of ‘Nancy From Now On’. There’s also a not…