As if it wasn’t looking exciting enough already, Belfast’s Open House Festival has announced a dream team of additions to its line up: Modest Mouse, Wilco and Iron & Wine. They join the already brilliant line up which includes Field…
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan return with third album
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan, the pair that brought us the briliant album Ballad of Broken Seas in 2006 and the really quite good Sunday at Devil Dirt in 2008, return with a new album in 2010, titled Hawk. Isobel…
Laura Marling and Mumford & Sons announce special shows with Indian folk collective
Laura Marling and Mumford & Sons have announced two special shows with the Rajasthani folk collective that they worked with in Delhi when they toured in India last December. The first show will take place at London’s Roundhouse on 9th…
Album: Horse Feathers – Thistled Spring
The new album from Portland-based Horse Feathers doesn’t deviate much from the beautiful, tightly constructed indie folk of their previous releases. Strings, guitars and banjo are layered below Justin Ringle’s soft vocals, with lyrics that create the blooming atmosphere of…
FFS New Bands Panel: Just Handshakes (We’re British)
Right off the bat, we can say about this Leeds four-piece that they have the best name of any act the New Bands Panel has yet listened to. But do they have the tunes to match? The panel dives in……
Album: Stars – The Five Ghosts
The Five Ghosts is a bit more electro-sci-fi-broadway-extravaganza than typical FFS fare, but these Canadian darlings have storytelling capabilities to rival the beardiest of banjo strummers. The subject matter of their musical tales ranges from the utterly everyday (lying in…