When Kyla La Grange last appeared in a singles round-up, she was compared – positively, it should be noted – with the likes of Bon Jovi of Bryan Adams for the grandstanding sound of ‘Heavy Stone’. Now she returns with…
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News | Ellen & The Escapades announce debut album details
Ellen & The Escapades will release their debut album All The Crooked Scenes on April 16. The album is the result of a hugely successful Pledge campaign that saw the band reach their initial fundraising target within eight days and…
News | Slow Down, Molasses release 3D video for Bodies
Do you have your 3D glasses to hand? Canadian band Slow Down, Molasses are about to bring us Bodies of Water, a collection of remixes of their debut album Walk Into The Sea, and they’re trailing it with a very…
News | The Staves announce new EP and UK tour
The wonderful Staves have announced details of their second EP and a mammoth UK tour to help promote it. The girls will return on April 2 with the Motherlode EP, featuring three brand new songs. They’ve just wrapped up a…
EP | Lissie – Covered Up In Flowers
Lissie has always enjoyed a good cover version. Youtube features almost as many videos of her taking on other people’s songs as her own, with targets as varied as Bob Dylan’s ‘Ramona’ to Metallica’s ‘Nothing Else Matters’ to Hank Williams’…
Exclusive | The Family Machine unveil video for ‘Quiet As A Mouse’
Oxford’s The Family Machine are back with a new song ‘Quiet As A Mouse’ featuring Anna Log from We Aeronauts and For Folk’s Sake is happy to bring you a video exclusive. The video, which features the band out for…
EP | Georgia Ruth – In Luna
If Georgia Ruth needed an angle to stand out from the crowd, she has it in her instrument of choice. Harpists are in short supply these days, with the only other one that springs to mind being Joanna Newsom, and…
EP | Joyce The Librarian – The Weight of the Line
First things first, Joyce The Librarian is one of my favourite names for a band in a while, and that was before I discovered the Stilgoe & Skillern song of a sex-starved book lender they got it from. And it…
Live | Michael Kiwanuka @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
There is a very real sense of expectation as queues snake away from the front of the Brudenell Social Club. Expectation not only that inside will be considerably warmer than the freezing winter temperatures of the car park, but that…
Albums | Pulp – It/Freaks/Separations
In the introduction to his lyrics collection Mother, Brother, Lover, published last year, unofficial national treasure Jarvis Cocker said his goal had always been to “create the kind of pop music I wished had been there for me in my…