Did you hear the one about the three songwriters who walked into a bar? Well, a cafe, actually. Those three songwriters were Emily Barker, Amber Rubarth and Amy Speace, and within two hours of meeting in East Nashville, they had…
Canadian country singer Lindi Ortega released her seventh studio album, Faded Gloryville, in September last year. Working with co-producers John Paul White (ex-Civil Wars) and Ben Tanner of Alabama Shakes, Ortega introduced something of a Muscle Shoals feel to the…
Offering rich, intimate Americana from the rolling plains of, uhm, London, the Mining Company are in the final stages of prepping debut album Burning Sun & The Atomic Powers Within. Led by Michael Gallagher, the group wear the influences of…
Canadian band Folly & The Hunter are preparing their third album Awake, written while out on tour with Half Moon Run and recorded with Howie Beck (Feist, Great Lake Swimmers, Chilly Gonzales) in Toronto and due out via Outside Music…
We/Or/Me is the stage name of Chicago-based Irish-Persian artist Bahhaj Taherzadeh, who sits in his car during lunch breaks from work to write his songs, then records them late at night after putting his daughters to bed. The results, which…
It’s Christmas Eve! Which means the final day of the FFS Advent Calendar, and what better way to round things off than with another competition, and with another chance to lay yours hands on the final few copies of one…
Who’s got their Christmas shopping done? Who’s facing a mad scramble on the high street? Last month we treated you to the premiere of Joe Innes & The Cavalcade’s Christmas single ‘Santa Says Relax’ and now, for Door 23 of…
It may be unseasonably warm as Christmas approaches, but we’ve got a song about snow behind Door 22 of the FFS Advent Calendar all the same. ‘Ghosts in the Snow’ comes from Freja’s Ghosts EP, which was released on November…
Perhaps we spoil you. Behind door 21 of the FFS Advent Calendar we have YET ANOTHER giveaway (and this isn’t even the last one!). Today is your chance to snare yourself a copy of Billie Marten’s As Long As EP…
Leeds-based Dancing Years are preparing to release their debut EP in the new year and from what we’ve heard – not least title track ‘Learn To Kiss‘ – it promises to be a cracker. But for the Advent Calendar, they’ve…