The Secret Sisters are Laura and Lydia Rogers from Muscle Shoals, Alabama. After getting the stamp of quality that is a Jack White-produced single, the sisters released their self-titled debut album. Our reviews editor Ian Parker said: “the Secret Sisters…
Author: Lynn Roberts
Lynn founded For Folk's Sake in 2008. Her favourite artists are Joni Mitchell, The Leisure Society and The Mountain Goats. She plays keyboards in Joe Innes & the Cavalcade.
Interview | Schmercury best album nominees The Leisure Society
Schmercury winners in 2009 for their debut album, The Sleeper, the Leisure Society’s masterful second album Into the Murky Water was released this year to a flurry of acclaim from critics and, notably, an awful lot of celebrities (John Simm, Chris…
News | Scarlett Mist closed down by fraudsters
Brilliant, ethical ticket resale website Scarlett Mist has been forced to close down by fraudsters selling fake tickets. The website matched ticket sellers with eager gig-goers and stipulated that tickets must be resold at face value. Website owners Richard and…
Interview | Schmercury best album nominees Dark Dark Dark
Marshall: “I wanted Dark Dark Dark to open for Adele on an “epic female vocalists and body-positive-famous girls” bill that would’ve stolen the world.”
Album | Laura Marling – A Creature I Don’t Know
If Alas I Cannot Swim was Marling vs Fink and I Speak Because I Can was Marling vs Mumford, on A Creature I Don’t Know Laura strikes out on her own. This album doesn’t look to its contemporaries for influence…
News | The Low Anthem announce hiatus
The Low Anthem sent this message to their mailing list subscribers today… Dear conspirators, lovers, friends, It was nearly 3 years ago when we first self-released “Oh My God, Charlie Darwin.” Since then we’ve been pretty lucky. We’ve been signed…
Interview | Schmercury best album nominee Mechanical Bride
Our 3rd Schmercury-nominated interviewee Mechanical Bride’s album was one of those long-awaited debuts. We’d been following brains-behind-the-name Lauren Doss’s career since FFS was founded three years ago. Living With Ants was finally released in June this year, after a long…
Interview | Schmercury best album nominee Devon Sproule
In the second in our series of interviews with Schmercury award nominees we speak to Devon Sproule – a Canadian-born musician now living in Virginia, US. As well as her beautiful albums, she’s an absolute joy to watch live, with…
Exclusive | Willkommen Foxswap – tracklist and free MP3
FFS can exlusively reveal the tracklisting for the Willkommen Collective’s covers album. Foxswap is an 18-track album, which will be available to download for free from bandcamp from tomorrow. The collective ask that you make a donation to the PIAS/AIM fund.…
News | Willkommen Collective and friends release free covers album
The Brighton-based musicians that make up the Willkommen Collective have put together a covers album to raise money for the AIM/PIAS appeal after thousands of records and CDs -including nearly all of Willkommen’s stock – were destroyed in a fire…