Record Store Day is here again! After last year’s mammoth list of 643 exclusive releases, organisers have taken concerns on board and produced a much leaner list of, uhm, 592. Still need help picking through it? FFS picks out the…
It can be a mixed blessing when one of your favourite songs pops up on an advert, but frankly Two Weeks sounds so good in any circumstance we won’t be complaining too much that it’s popped up flogging YouView. And…
Part two of our shopping guide continues with some lovely coloured vinyl from the Leisure Society and a sweet-sounding collaboration from Willy Mason and Brendan Benson. These are the things that should be getting you out of bed. Bob Dylan…
It’s far from an unfamiliar story: art-house indie band makes a huge breakthrough album, and then wrestles with the right way to follow it up for years. Veckatimest catapulted Grizzly Bear out of the experimental backwaters and firmly into the…
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),…
It’s easy to see Daniel Rossen’s career output as a series of fractions – a quarter of him lies in Grizzly Bear’s work, a half in Department of Eagles – so it seems fitting that his ever-increasing influence has led…
Don’t Act Like You Don’t Care is Luke Temple’s third solo album, which only goes to show I’ve still got a lot of catching up to do. I first heard about him through his band Here We Go Magic, and…
We’ve gone through the folkier end of the festival calender, and hereby bring you our picks. You won’t find any news on Glastonbury or Reading and Leeds, mind. We’re here to tell you about the things you might not have…
Ed Droste has announced, via Twitter of all news conduits, that the forthcoming Grizzly Bears tour will be graced by the incredible, ethereal presence of St Vincent, whose latest album, Actor is utterly splendorous and one of our nominees for the Schmercury Prize.