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.

Listen online: Colour of Ants by Mechanical Bride + free download

The long-awaited debut album by Brighton based Lauren Doss’s band Mechanical Bride, Colour of Fire is being released by Transgressive Records on Monday. You can stream the whole thing on This is Fake DIY now. Lauren’s also giving away the…

Stream Bon Iver’s new album in full

Bon Iver’s new album is another slice of magic, if you ask me, which you didn’t. But starting from now you don’t have to ask anyone. You can hear it for yourself, because it’s streaming over on the Guardian website.…

Dufflefolks and Emily and the Woods play charity gig

Attention Londoners (and near Londoners)! For Folk’s Sake favourites and winners of the Green Man unsigned band competition the Dufflefolks will be headlining a charity show in aid of VSO this Wednesday at the Tooting Tram & Social. And it’s…

Emmy the Great releases Iris Video

Here at FFS we’re so excited about Emmy the Great’s new album Virtue, that we just can’t wait until it’s release date (13th June) for you to share the joy. Happily Ms The Great has made a couple of tracks…

Bandstand busking hosts free stage at Meltdown

Session promoters Bandstand Busking have announced that they’re once again putting on a stage at Ray Davies’ Meltdown Festival at the Southbank Centre in London. The Guillemots will be headlining this year’s stage with more acts to be announced. Last…

Villagers win Ivor Novello award for best song

Och that’s nice. The lovely Conor O’Brien from Villagers has won an Ivor Novello Award today for “Best Song Musically and Lyrically” for ‘Becoming A Jackal’, the title track of his debut album. He was up against Foals and Everything Everything…

FFS on London Fields Radio #6

We play tracks from The Leisure Society, Fleet Foxes, Joni Mitchell and Jackson Browne, and FFS’s reviews editor Ian Parker calls in for a chat about the best new albums. There’s also two tracks from Brian’s mixtape: Imitation & Flattery,…