Allman Brown has been playing the London scene for a while now – the panel stepped in to give him a listen. Jen Rouse: Biographically aloof Allman Brown is a super-photogenic pop singer/songwriter with killer cheekbones and a wonderful voice – a clean,…
Album: Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog – Dyddiau Du, Dyddiau Gwyn
Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog are a three-piece band of brothers who, so they tell us, were given their name by their headmaster at primary school. Rhos Botwnnog is a tiny piece of land just north of the village of Botwnnog in…
Album: Jessica Lea Mayfield – Tell Me
Back in 2009, the 20-year-old Jessica Lea Mayfield released her debut album With Blasphemy So Heartfelt. Dan Auerbach – Ohio’s own Jack White (minimalist blues-rock band – check, endless side-projects – check, taste for production – check) had championed her…
10 Questions with… Thousands
“Thousands is Kristian Garrard and Luke Bergman. We live in Seattle, Wa, USA. We play acoustic guitars and sing. We recorded an album called “the sound of everything” in a variety of natural settings; a barn, a silo, a graveyard, the forest. The idea was to present our songs live and acoustic, the way we play them, in the real world, without any studio trickery or fancy overdubs.”
End of the Road line-up: Marling, Mogwai, Midlake, Mangan
End of the Road, FFS’s favourite festival, has added another slew of bands to its aleady brilliant line-up. Mogwai will be joining headliners Midlake, Beirut and Laura Marling. Also confirmed are The Leisure Society, Dry The River, Joan as a…
Album: Alexander – Alexander
The ‘Solo Career’ section of Alexander Ebert’s Wikipedia page states simply and coolly: “In 2010, Alexander began to dabble with a solo career.” Imagine this line as the last of a movie trailer – the line that tells us all…