Lily & Madeleine have announced a UK tour in February, giving British audiences their first opportunity to see the sisters playing live. The Indiana natives, who played a one-off show in the capital last month, are riding high following the…
We could not be more thrilled to have a Dark Dark Dark track on our Christmas album this year. We’re sure you’re familiar with the work of Nona Marie Invie and her super-talented cohorts, but if not just check out…
‘Soliloquy of an Astronaut’ by Tessera Skies first surfaced last year, but listening to it right now it’s hard not to be put in mind of the film Gravity. Indeed, the title itself is enough to evoke the floating-round-my-tin-can loneliness and…
There are one or two Belle & Sebastian superfans at FFS Towers, so teaming up with Isobel Campbell is always going to be a good way to get attention from us. Another strong tactic is producing beautifully understated songs with…
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…
Who wants some FREE MUSIC??? Yeah, of course you do. New York’s David Bronson is offering ‘Animals’, a track from his recent album The Long Lost as a free download. Bronson says: “This is a song about accountability and the opposing…
“All the girls whose hearts have been broken will cry for you no more,” is the call from Caracol, aka French-Canadian singer Carole Facal, on her her second UK release ‘All The Girls’. Perhaps it would be a touch fatuous…
Continuing the sort-of-but-not-actually-Christmassy theme started by Johanna Glaza’s ‘Shall I Be A Saint’ winter wonderland yesterday, we present: Lapland. Christmas sceptics fear not, though: the festive feel pretty much ends with the moniker of Brooklyner Jesse Mease’s musical project as there’s not…
With the line-up of this year’s Christmas album finally revealed, we’re just about ready to deck the halls of FFS Towers with boughs of holly. In the meantime, we’re enjoying this enchanting video from Johanna Glaza. If you’re the sort of…
We consider sending a couple of tweets about the John Lewis Christmas advert and making a cup of tea to be a reasonably productive morning. We worry therefore that Dustin Tebbutt may see us as a bunch of idle slackers.…