Folk behemoth Bellowhead are to release a Christmas single this year. Billed as “a proper old-fashioned sort of Christmas single but with a customary Bellowhead sort of a twist”, ‘Christmas Bells/Jingle Bells’ will be released on December 1. As regular readers…
Lover Lover’s blend of synths and harmonies is a lovely way to welcome the weekend. “If you say it’ll be alright, then I know it’ll be alright,” sings Eleanor Bodenham, as the “young, free” mantra repeats in the background. It’s…
Following the news that Jesca Hoop is to release an acoustic version of her album Hunting My Dress, named Undress, next year, here’s a clue as to what it might sound like. This is the track ‘Murder Of Birds’ from…
Jesca Hoop has announced a new album, Undress – an acoustic reworking of her 2009 release Hunting My Dress. The Manchester-based Californian produced The Complete Kismet Acoustic, a stripped-down re-imagining of her Kismet album, earlier this year, and now Hunting…
We’ve all had those fantasies, right? You turn up to see your favourite band play live but the bassist/drummer/singer/tambourine player is taken ill and you’re somehow called up on stage to take their place… Well, if Emily Barker & The…
Folk musician and doctor Sukh was one of our first ever Songs of the Day earlier this year with his track Kings. With his debut album out next month, we thought it was about time we found out a…
London sextet SixToes have pulled off something of a coup by tempting Depeche Mode star Dave Gahan to sing on their new single ‘Low Guns’. “Dave would always be very positive after listening to our remixes for their Sounds Of…
When we heard the stonking ‘Forty-Rod Of Lightnin’‘, we knew we had to find out more about wife-and-husband duo The August List. And now that they’ve been kind enough to give us an exclusive first look at their new single…
For Folk’s Sake was lucky enough to stumble across Peggy Sue playing in a chapel during Laura Marling’s Secret Cinema gig earlier this year, and listening to new single Idle it’s easy to be transported straight back there. With the…
With songs like ‘Black Rose’ in his arsenal, it’s faintly absurd that Piers Faccini doesn’t have a higher profile. Taken from his upcoming fifth solo studio album Between Dogs and Wolves, the track has more than a hint of Nick…