This is freaky, folkers. Breakfast this morning was accompanied by the sweet sounds of Sufjan’s Illinois and thoughts of how much I’d love to see him live, and lo and behold a string of UK dates are announced. The UK…
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.
FFS Exclusive: Andrew Davie, Beth Jeans Houghton and Tom Williams & the Boat for Camden Crawl
FFS can exclusively reveal that Andrew Davie (formerly of Cherbourg), Beth Jeans Houghton and Tom Williams & the Boat will play this year’s Camden Crawl. Other folky acts lined up include Sarabeth Tucek – who is supporting the Leisure Society…
The Leisure Society: new album and tour dates
FFS favourites The Leisure Society have announced that their second album ‘Into The Murky Water’, will be released on Monday May 2nd 2011. The band’s first album ‘The Sleeper’ won FFS’s best album poll in 2009. Songwriter Nick Hemming has…
Alessi’s Ark’s new video and free MP3 download
Put two uber-talented 20-year-olds together and what do you get? Well in this case it’s a tricycle-filled music video in which every frame and note is a beaut. Artistic wonderwoman Anika Mottershaw and dream-folk darling Alessi Laurent-Marke got together to…
James Apollo’s top 5 British folk artists
Nomadic Americana artist James Apollo is over in the UK ahead of the release of his second album available to us Brits, ‘Born Lucky’. It’s a compilation spanning his 6-year career. To celebrate his visit to this fair isle, he picked…
10 questions with… The Secret Sisters
We are Laura and Lydia Rogers, two sisters from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, who sing early country, folk, Americana, and gospel music. We are 24 and 22, respectively. We both sing and play guitar during our performances, and have been likened to the Everly Brothers, the Louvin Brothers and the Andrews Sisters.
Listen to the Low Anthem’s new album in full
The new album from Bella Union wonders The Low Anthem is available to stream this week. Smart Flesh was produced by the band and mixed by Bright Eyes and Alessi’s Ark producer Mike Mogis. Jeff Prystowsky from the Low Anthem…
Mountain Goats on tour tour tour
Best band in the world, the Mountain Goats, have announced a UK tour after the release of All Eternals Deck, their first release on Merge Records. They’re so brilliant live it would be remiss of us not to very strongly…
tUnE-yArDs announces new album and track giveaway
Author of one of our favourite albums ever, Merrill Garbus’s tUnE-yArDs’s second album w ho k i l l is set to be released on 18th April. And in response to a bit of old-fashioned pirating Merrill said this: “The…
Belle and Sebastian release new single – announce live dates
Belle & Sebastian got most of us at FFS through our teenage years, so there’ll always be a very special place in our hearts for them. Especially if they keep releasing tunes as good as the one you can listen to…