Category: Blog

Artist blog | Emily Barker on Rocky Votolato

Our favourite Australian songstress Emily Barker is on the road as part of the revival tour. It’s a five week European jaunt with a slew of other artists, full of collaboration, covers and singalongs. After her last blog, in which…

Blog | For Folk’s Sake on 6 Music’s Now Playing

Tom Robinson and his team kindly invited us to pick some tracks for his Now Playing show tonight. It’s always so exciting to get to work with 6 Music. The station does such a wonderful service for new music, and…

Blog | Recommended artist: Foreign Fields

I’ve been listening to this obsessively since I stumbled across it. The record is from Nashville-via-Wisconsin band Foreign Fields, formerly known as Flights. Eric Hillman and Brian Holl are the brains behind Foreign Fields. They describe their music as electronic…

Blog | New favourite band: I Am Oak

Here is everything we know about I Am Oak: – The band is based around a songwriter called Thijs Kuijken – He is from Utrecht in the Netherlands – Their website is here: iamoak.com – You can listen to their albums…

Record Store Day | The FFS shopping guide

With over 400 special releases planned, this year’s will easily be the biggest Record Store Day to date. We can’t imagine such a huge array of vinyl will leave anyone short of ideas, but you might just be overwhelmed by…

Record Store Day | FFS writers on their favourite shops

Most every music fan has one of their own, but as we each get ready to head out and join the queues tomorrow, FFS writers profile a handful of our favourite shops. Spillers Records, Cardiff If you’re looking for authenticity…