Neko Case is to play a headline show at London’s Forum in December. The American singer-songwriter and New Pornographer, whose new album The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You is out…
With a voice that sounds like the devil cutting loose in a jazz bar, David G Cox packs a lot of variety into his four-track Bag Of Bones EP, but no track shows off what he is all about quite…
You may have heard Kevin Pearce on BBC Radio 6 Music, but one thing FFS’s favourite radio station cannot do for you is show you this charming video. Pearce’s new song ‘Peaceful Skies’ is about wishing you could take a…
Listening to Wild Beasts frontman Hayden Thorpe singing “oh no sir, I must say you’re wrong” on this stunning cover version it’s not hard to convince yourself the lyrics were written specially for him. In fact he has teamed up…
Ridiculously talented Newcastle four-piece Bridie Jackson & The Arbour have had quite a special few days, what with making their Glastonbury debut having won the festival’s Emerging Talent Competition to earn spots on three different stages across the weekend. Well,…
The Dodos have announced a major European tour, including the briefest of trips to the UK, to promote their new album Carrier. Meric Long and Logan Kroeber’s fifth LP, and their first since the death of touring guitarist Chris Reimer early last…
It’s hard to imagine their are many FFS readers who won’t be excited, intrigued or at the very least mildly interested to hear new material from Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon. That the new material comes not from Bon Iver but…
For their first outing post-Foxes!, Adam Bell and Alan Grice appear to have channelled the twin influences of Friedrich Nietzsche and Stephen Malkmus. With their old band on hiatus, Bell and Grice have teamed up with Alan Odgers and Tom Matthews…
Some people think folk music is all men with beards playing acoustic guitars and clapping. These people are idiots, but just to be on the safe side, don’t show them ‘Shed A Little Light’ by Winter Mountain, which is two…
It’s fair to say that we at Team FFS bend to no-one in our love of Anais Mitchell’s Hadestown. So while some some might be put off by an EP with the title Alexander the Great: a Folk Operetta ? Act…