What do you do if you have, as Joe Innes puts it, “written a metric eff tonne of songs” that need turning into an album? You launch a crowd-funding campaign to get it off the ground. That’s exactly what Joe…
Those of you who followed the FFS Advent Calendar will remember Mairearad Green’s track ‘Blessing On Tanera‘ as one of the many treats included, and now the release of her debut album Summer Isles is just about upon us. Mairearad’s…
Eric Taylor Escudero may have been born in Brazil but there is a distinct English flavour to his debut album We Were Young And It Was Morning, on which he plays an array of instruments – guitar, harmonica, mandolin, concertina,…
Are you a budding writer and keen music fan? FFS is looking for eager folks to join our team of writers. Whether you fancy writing album reviews, live reviews, or breaking that cardinal rule and meeting your heroes as part…
Having met in 2013 when recording a Lead Belly cover, Dawn Landes and Piers Faccini quickly bonded and began work writing and recording together. The fruits of those labours can be heard on their new EP Desert Songs, and to…
Did you hear the one about the three songwriters who walked into a bar? Well, a cafe, actually. Those three songwriters were Emily Barker, Amber Rubarth and Amy Speace, and within two hours of meeting in East Nashville, they had…
Canadian country singer Lindi Ortega released her seventh studio album, Faded Gloryville, in September last year. Working with co-producers John Paul White (ex-Civil Wars) and Ben Tanner of Alabama Shakes, Ortega introduced something of a Muscle Shoals feel to the…
Offering rich, intimate Americana from the rolling plains of, uhm, London, the Mining Company are in the final stages of prepping debut album Burning Sun & The Atomic Powers Within. Led by Michael Gallagher, the group wear the influences of…
Canadian band Folly & The Hunter are preparing their third album Awake, written while out on tour with Half Moon Run and recorded with Howie Beck (Feist, Great Lake Swimmers, Chilly Gonzales) in Toronto and due out via Outside Music…
We/Or/Me is the stage name of Chicago-based Irish-Persian artist Bahhaj Taherzadeh, who sits in his car during lunch breaks from work to write his songs, then records them late at night after putting his daughters to bed. The results, which…