St Vincent has paired up with David Byrne to record a new album, Love This Giant, slated for release on September 10, and the pair are offering a free download of the lead track ‘Who’. Byrne and Annie Clark have…
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EP | Dear Winesburg – Setting In
To record their latest EP, Dear Winesburg have stripped things back. The five-piece have, in effect, become a two-piece. Chris Kreinczes leads proceedings with his guitar and vocals, but it is the haunting violin of Emma Kraemer which is the…
Interview | Gary Stewart: A man of many escapades
Between playing drums for Hope and Social, guitar for Rosie Doonan and, since the turn of the year, bass for Ellen & The Escapades, it’s a wonder that Gary Stewart finds time for a solo career. But find it he…
Interview | The Tallest Man on Earth finds his voice
Kristian Matsson, aka The Tallest Man on Earth, has had enough of the endless Bob Dylan comparisons. Told that his third full album, There’s No Leaving Now, has been branded his Bringing It All Back Home because of its expanded…
Listen | The Dreaming Spires debut album with an exclusive guide from the band
The Dreaming Spires release their debut album Brothers in Brooklyn on Monday and they’ve given For Folk’s Sake an exclusive guide to accompany a stream of the record. The Oxford band were formed by Robin & Joe Bennett, who have…
Interview | The Mynabirds’ Laura Burhenn starts a new revolution
The Mynabirds’ Laura Burhenn has a novel method of avoiding second-album syndrome: write it before you’ve written your debut. So it was with Generals, technically the follow-up to 2010’s What We Lose In The Fire We Gain In The Flood…
Album | Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart – Dedication
Dedication seems a fitting title for a Stacey Earle album. Steve Earle’s sister has been writing and recording with her husband Mark Stuart for two decades now, playing up to 170 gigs a year and putting out albums on their…
Album | Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Here
It’s three years since the former front man of dance-punkers Ima Robot Alex Ebert rebranded himself as Edward Sharpe and joined up with the sprawling Magnetic Zeros to deliver an eccentric, magical ride of west coast psychedelia. Since then, in…
Album | Cold Specks – I Predict A Graceful Expulsion
Etobicoke, Canada is a long way from the Deep South but it is clear that is where native Al Spx, now a resident of the even more distant London, finds her inspiration. Her homespun blues are built on the old…
EP | Holly Taymar & Christopher Bilton – Never Winter Mind Part Two
We first came across Holly Taymar last year during the unenviable task of whittling down 125 Glastonbury Emerging Talent competition entries to three. Taymar grabbed our attention, and a place on that final shortlist, not by doing anything new or…