The title of Lach’s show at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe embodies his philosophy not just towards music but arts and culture in their broadest sense: Up the Anti! The founder of The Fort, an early home to the ragtag bunch…
Author: Lois Jeary
Lois is a freelance journalist who writes about both music and theatre. Her musical quest is to recreate the tingly feeling she got when she first saw Rilo Kiley do ‘With Arms Outstretched’ – M. Ward and Joanna Newsom come closest. Sharing music with others is the single most erotic thing she knows, so don’t tell her you like what she recommended to you unless you really mean ‘I love you too’.
Album | Beachwood Sparks – The Tarnished Gold
It has been 11 dismal years since Sub Pop’s Beachwood Sparks released their last full-length album, and an awful lot has changed in the dreamy world of alt-country in that time. Long before Fleet Foxes, and when Vetiver was a…
Live | Treetop Flyers @ Hoxton Bar and Kitchen
Treetop Flyers are in many ways the quintessential band to have emerged from the collaborative Communion stable, and their old-time country courts ever increasing attention and buzz. At the launch of not-so-new single ‘It’s About Time’, the band that seems…
Album: Vetiver – The Errant Charm
On their fifth album The Errant Charm, San Francisco’s Vetiver make no surprise departures from the breezy psychadelic-folk that fans have become accustomed to. It is a lazy afternoon of a record – a perfectly pleasant diversion that leaves you…
Album: The Elected – Bury Me in My Rings
Every new album from The Elected – the solo project of Blake Sennett, not so long ago of Rilo Kiley fame – has shown a new incarnation. Their 2004 debut Me First saw sampling and electronica interrupt country melodies, the…
Album: The Decemberists – The King is Dead
The King is Dead heralds its arrival in triumphant form with harmonica sounding out over a marching rhythm before Colin Meloy’s voice decrees “the turning of the season”. ‘Don’t Carry It All’ is a rallying cry and an instant statement…
Video: Alessi’s Ark and Rachael Dadd introduce Japan to The Robot
While sat barefooted on the tatami mats in Kyoto’s Cafe Yugue (home to arguably the best bagels in all of Japan. Seriously.), FFS filmed Alessi’s Ark at her first Japanese gig. Alessi was accompanied on a few songs by fellow British folkster…
Johnny Flynn to warm your cockles with winter headline tour
It may seem that summer is nearly over before it has even begun, but despair ye not, because this winter Johnny Flynn embarks on a UK headline tour, and I can think of no better companion on a cold winter’s night than…
Live: Scout Niblett @ The Borderline
The show opens with Canada’s Ora Cogan. The one woman, one guitar, powerful folk songs set up is a common one, and although often Cogan’s songs sound familiar, they are never predictable or dull, but thoughtful and soft, and a…
Hear Jeffrey Lewis reveal his comic book secrets
Most will know him best for singing charmingly odd little ditties about mosquitos, oral sex and ghouls; but anyone who has spent time hanging about the merch stall at a Jeffrey Lewis gig will also know that he is a highly…