Communion has announced the line up for its series of Flowerpot shows, starting today featuring Mumford & Sons, Sarah Blasko and Angus & Julia Stone. The label and club night, which released a compilation album including tracks from Alessi, Johnny…
Tag: Lissie
Album: Lissie – Catching a Tiger
It’s clear from the outset what Lissie’s target market is; from her album cover to her “image”, this is pure pop. However, in listening to her music, Lissie has a little something different to her popular peers, a sense of…
Lissie and the Dave Rawlings Machine announced for Open House
Open House festival in Belfast has announced new additions to its already rather exciting bill. FFS favourite Lissie and The Dave Rawlings Machine will join already announced Seasick Steve, Wilco, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Felice Brothers, The Low Anthem…
The Folk Artist Twitter Directory
Below is our attempt at a comprehensive directory of folk artists currently on Twitter – of course, we aren’t Twitter deities and as such will almost certainly have missed out on certain artists. Let us know if you can think…
Album sampler: Lissie — Catching a Tiger
With Lissie’s blonde hair, freckled face and guitar in hand, it would be easy to write her off as another “pretty folk-singer wanna-be”…. Of course once you listen to her music, that thought gets promptly blown to pieces. She has…
Editor’s picks… Matthew & the Atlas, Lissie, Gold Sounds, Henry Brill
We come across a lot of great music here at FFS, a lot of which we don’t get to write about in detail straight away, despite it being very lovely. Here are our picks from the past few weeks. Enjoy!…
EP: Lissie – Why You Runnin’ (Fat Possum)
So I have been trying to figure out where I have seen this angelical face of Lissie, with this profound and roaring voice like a storm; and I can’t, for the love of me, remember at all. It is one…
[Hundred Bands] 5: Lissie
Wow. Already our gargantuan task is worth it. Lissie is a Californian troubadour who made her EP ‘Why You Running’ with Band of Horses man Bill Reynolds. Lissie vocals are deliciously smoky, and she scuffs up her pretty melodies with…