by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 with Ship & Sail
Ship & Sail made a splash in its respective Michigan scene following the release of their EP, From Seeds. Dedicated to Colin Haggerty’s late mother, his plaintive first studio cuts lived up to Ship & Sail’s tagline: “A little fun,…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 with Signe Marie Rustad
While it’s been some time since Signe Marie Rustad once lived on the Norwegian farm upon which she was born and raised, her experiences there invariably shaped her into the artist that she has become. The forests, rivers, and fields…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 with Flora Hibberd
East London born and currently based in Paris, European artist Flora Hibberd is one of the foremost faces of a rising movement in contemporary folk music. Skating eloquently between influences like Joan Baez, Nick Cave, Jason Molina, and Cat Power,…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 with Bridge 19
When setting down to develop their new album, In the Afterglow, Louisville’s Bridge 19 had tasked themselves with something seemingly impossible. Yet, frontwomen Audrey Cecil and Amanda Lucas effortlessly twist and weave between the realms of serious lyricism and charming…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Interview | The Leisure Society find a new direction
It’s a big, strange house (a convent, in fact), the kind you might hear ghost stories about. And it’s a long way from home, in Richelieu, France, where the Leisure Society have gone to record, to get away from it…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 with Jamestown Revival
Jamestown Revival’s newest album, San Isabel, is all about finding the quiet between the noise. When asked about its recurring themes, band member Jonathan Clay stated, “We wrote this record with sort of an overarching theme, which is cutting out…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Interview | Radical Face finds his therapy
Ben Cooper is amazingly well adjusted. The force behind Radical Face grew up in south with nine siblings. Barely above the poverty line, his mixed-race family seemed normal, until he realised that not everyone was brought up the same way…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 with Roo Panes
Since the release of his debut EP, Land of the Living, in 2013, Roo Panes has become something of a hot commodity in the realm of indie folk. Although the singer-songwriter himself is the first to espouse that he wishes…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 with D.L. Rossi
D.L. Rossi is nothing short of the genuine article, producing emotion-laden Americana songwriting in search of catharsis. His newest album, A Sweet Thing, is the natural product of that search, having found himself in music following a painful divorce and…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Interview | Tiny Ruins take flight
“You only had your Olympic girls/The frosted sheen of leotard twirls/Running revolt and winning gold/For the TV screen/Before being led back to the cells.” So sings Hollie Fullbrook on the title track of her third album under the name Tiny…