A song a day, every day. From brand new tunes to elderly classics. We don’t promise to be constrained by genre, but we promise to recommend brilliant music.
Our favourite new folkies Gerard & the Watchmen released their brilliant debut album Wooden Castles this week with a triumphant sold-out show at London’s Lexington. Cureless Love is taken from the record and the lovely video was animated and directed by Tim Wheatley…
Following the news that Jesca Hoop is to release an acoustic version of her album Hunting My Dress, named Undress, next year, here’s a clue as to what it might sound like. This is the track ‘Murder Of Birds’ from…
FFS favourite Devon Sproule is currently on a jaunt around the UK (her brilliant blog continues over on devonsproule.com) playing her new album Colours, which she made with Nova Scotian songwriter Mike O’Neill. Here she is with band member Thom…
Dancing years are from Leeds, and we wouldn’t be surprised if everyone thinks they’re cool by the end of the week. This is their debut single, released today on local label Hide & Seek. ‘Here’s to my old friends’ has all…
It’s Paul Simon’s birthday today so we asked some of our favourite bands to pick their favourite of his songs: Worry Dolls: American Tune Dave Gerard: Graceland Sophie Jamieson and Patch & the Giant guitarist/banjo player Liam Hoflay: Call Me…
[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/113661176″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Whistling, a little light tinkling on the ivories and a Matrix-style musing on the dreamlike qualities of love and death make ‘Death is Like a Dream We’ll Have’ simultaneously lighthearted and sad.…
From deep inside the mind of songwriter and arranger Gabe Birnbaum come the twisted sounds which make up Wilder Maker’s second full length release Year of Endless Light. This is Americana as freeform jazz, a blending of styles that blurs…
London sextet SixToes have pulled off something of a coup by tempting Depeche Mode star Dave Gahan to sing on their new single ‘Low Guns’. “Dave would always be very positive after listening to our remixes for their Sounds Of…
A new record from Los Campesinos! is always an event, so get November 4th marked in your diaries because the Welsh pop masters are back with their fifth LP No Blues. As its name should tell you, this is the…
For Folk’s Sake was lucky enough to stumble across Peggy Sue playing in a chapel during Laura Marling’s Secret Cinema gig earlier this year, and listening to new single Idle it’s easy to be transported straight back there. With the…