Swedish sisters Johanna and Klara have announced the second single to be taken from their forthcoming album The Big the Black and the Blue. Single I Met Up With The King, which is inspired by a lyric from one of…
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Laura Marling announces album title and tracklisting
FFS are very excited about Laura Marling’s forthcoming album, and now we can reveal the name, tracklisting and release date. The album, which is to be called “I Speak Because I Can”, will be released on 22nd March. The LP…
Call for artists: Album cover designs wanted for Rachael Dadd mini-album
Broken Sound Music (who’ve released EPs by FFS favourite Peggy Sue and the debut album by Forest Fire) are calling for artists to submit work for a 10″ mini album from Bristol-based folk artist Rachael Dadd. Moth in the Motor…
Tickets for Laura Marling UK tour on sale now
Exciting news, folk fans! Tickets for Laura Marling’s UK tour in April 2010 are on sale this morning. Six of the dates will also feature the wonderful Alessi’s Ark. She will join Laura on the Birmingham Cambridge, Newcastle, York, Southampton…
Johnny Flynn offers free MP3 from ‘Sweet William’ EP
Johnny Flynn In a longingly awaited follow-up to the utter stunner of an album that was A Larum, Johnny Flynn has recorded the Sweet William EP, one track of which, ‘Drum’ is now available as a free download here. What…
TLOBF announces Shhh… gig with Dan Michaelson & the Coastguards, Jon Hopkins, David Thomas Broughton and more
Music website The Line of Best Fit has announced it is to host an “all day celebration of quiet music” in London in January. The gig at Cecil Sharp House in Camden will feature Jon Hopkins, Dan Michaelson and the…
Call for artists: Album cover designs wanted for Rachael Dadd mini-album
Broken Sound Music (who’ve released EPs by FFS favourite Peggy Sue and the debut album by Forest Fire) are calling for artists to submit work for a 10″ mini album from Bristol-based folk artist Rachael Dadd. Moth in the Motor…
Bandstand Busking this Sunday: Fyfe Dangerfield (Guillemots), Tristram and The Clientelle
Bandstand busking have announed a rather lovely little line up to warm your cockles on in a chilly Victoria Park this Sunday.
Mumford and Sons New Year Extravaganza
So pretty much the only miserable thing about Christmas is that when it ends you have to wait a whole year for the next one. The clever people of Camden’s Flowerpot have thought long and hard about this and come up with a frankly miraculous way to welcome in 2010 and take the sting out of chucking out the advent calendar.
Jeremy Warmsley offers free EP, announces Heartbreak Ball
Here’s a lovely early Christmas present for you; a 5-track EP from Father Christmas’s friendliest helper, Jeremy Warmsley. Not only is he offering four acoustic versions of his own (frankly astounding) songs, he’s also thrown in a pretty special Abba cover, as the icing on the cake.