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.
Back in 2010 when we first came across Mathew Gray, our New Bands Panel attempted gamely not to mention Bob Dylan too often as they described what they loved about the Lancashire singer-songwriter. Now Gray’s sound has been fleshed out…
“Even George Clooney gets lonely,” sing This Frontier Needs Heroes on their latest release, a sentiment which is either reassuring or desperately sad depending on your perspective. If it does seem a touch ambiguous, then the line: “All the money…
So you know when your debut album is coming out and you wanna sell yourself to the world? You release a catchy single, right? Three minutues long, melody that sticks in your head, radio-friendly riffs – that’s the sort of…
Today’s Song of the Day is an absolute classic, THE Wuthering Heights by THE Kate Bush, which we’ve chosen in honour of our marvellous live editor THE Helen True – born ‘pon this day. Quite apart from her general excellence, there is no…
Wilsen recently recorded this live version of ‘House On A Hill’ at the ‘we’re very serious about music, we are’ Electric Lady studios in Greenwich Village and threw it into the internet last week. Utterly beautiful single ‘Dusk‘ featured as Song of the…
Welsh songster Al Lewis sent us this lovely cover of Judee Sill’s ‘Jesus Was A Crossmaker’. We love the warmth of this version. What do you think?
You did know: Colin Meloy and his merry band of Decemberists chose Sons & Daughters to be the closing track to their 2006 album The Crane Wife. You didn’t know: Meloy denied right-wing US comedian Dennis Miller pemission to use…
Grey Reverend’s debut album Of The Days was one of the unexpected highlights of 2011, so it’s fair to say FFS is more than a little bit excited about the follow-up A Hero’s Lie, which is due out in September. ‘Everlasting’,…
It’s possible that when listening to ‘Keep You’ by GAPS, there’ll be moments when you think: “What’s this doing on a folk music website?” But then it’s also possible there’ll be moments when you think: “Wow, this is a beautiful…
Occupying that long-neglected territory between Eastern European folk knees-up and art rock, Genna Marabese’s single ‘Deal With The Devil’ certainly does not lack for drama. But given her debut EP The Birthday Party, which is out on August 5, shares…