1. Hello, please introduce yourself and your music to the uninitiated. Hi, I’m Nicole Atkins. Im from Asbury Park, NJ but I live in Brooklyn. I write, sing and play guitar for my band Nicole Atkins and the Black Sea.…
Album: Ron Sexsmith – Long Player Late Bloomer
From the opening bars of ‘Get In Line’, it’s clear that Ron Sexsmith is in an unusually good mood. A man who has made a long career out of singing songs of loss and dejection has a smile on his…
Editor’s picks… Tallest Man on Earth, The Mountain Goats, This is the Kit, Leisure Society + free MP3s
1.The Tallest Man on Earth‘s 2010 album The Wild Hunt has hardly been off the FFS stereo in the past couple of months. Kristian Matsson is Swedish and of average height with a gift for proper songwriting. There’s no flourishes…
Album: Lucinda Williams – Blessed
Lucinda Williams is at her best angry, scorned and burning with a fiery passion. But while we were happy for her and everything, her marriage to Tom Overby made 2008 album Little Honey, which he produced, sound like it was…
Three Blind Wolves: Tour Video
We’ve got some exclusive footage from Glaswegian fourpiece on their US tour. The band are set to release their mini album ‘Sound of the Storm’ through Communion on 20th March. The lovely noise your can hear playing in the background…
Allman Brown
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,…