Bear Driver
After catching our attention with “Big Love”, their swirling, romantic, and loud debut single, Bear Driver have released their second single “Enemy” earlier today. The six-piece, who originate from Leeds, offer a fresh…
New Blood: Sean Bones
Sean Bones, AKA Sean Sullivan and his bandmates have released their second album ‘Buzzards Boy’ earlier this month. “Buzzards Boy” was preceded by the shuffling single “Here Now”, the album’s opening track. The…
Monument Valley
It’s getting hard to write about singer-songwriters. Not that Monument Valley, the musical alias of the promisingly talented Ned Younger at all deserves to be pigeonholed into being just another post-Mumford singer-songwriter –…
The Collectable Few – Model Behaviour
The Collectable Few, whose debut single ‘Headstrong’ earned a fair bit of radio airtime, are set to release follow-up ‘Model Behaviour’ on December 12th. With guitar pop stuck in a bit of a…
New Blood: Wakey!Wakey!
Michael Grubbs has taken an odd road to becoming Wakey!Wakey!, from a childhood sat in front of a baby grand piano, to touring with two musicals, to settling in Brooklyn under the wing…
Arctic Monkeys – Suck It And See
Lyrical references to lazerquest, shellsuits, belly button piercings (in the sky), cowboy films, curly straws and dandelion and burdock? Guitar pop with a penchant for an unexpected heavy Queens of the Stone Age…
James Vincent McMorrow
Think you’re bored of bearded folk now? Meet James Vincent McMorrow, Dublin’s should-be success story. His second single, ‘Sparrow & The Wolf’, due out on June 19th and taken from his already released…
New Blood: Polarsets
One of the better unknown stars of Radio One’s Big Weekend, Newcastle’s new buzz Polarsets have released their first official single this week, ‘Sunshine Eyes’, which, you may be fascinated to know, does…
Review // Aaron Wright – Aaron Wright
Not that we’re complaining, but it’s certainly noticeable that the early days of Spring have a habit of bringing folk-y popsters and singer-songwriters out from whichever twee haunts they’ve been hibernating in, with…
New Blood: The Milk
With a Conservative majority government meeting it’s “putting people out of jobs” quota it’s probably only to be expected that the spectre of the downtrodden genre that is soul music is making a…
Review // The Strokes – Angles
If ever a band has less need of an introduction, it is The Strokes. It’s understandable, considering that with the release of Is This It in 2001, the five New Yorkers had come…
New Blood: Peter and Kerry
Formed after the chance meeting of solo artists Peter Lyons and Kerry Leatham – the first being a writer/producer from Southampton working on film soundtracks, the latter being a Ani DiFranco inspired singer…
Aloe Blacc
Soul music is a rejuvenating force. When times are hard, soul singers can make a genuine connection to real life struggles and hardships with a smile, credibility and a sense of the effortlessly…
Review // Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes
Sweden isn’t a place renowned for musical exports. (It’s unarguable, I tested it. I asked five people to name musicians from Sweden; three couldn’t, one nervously named ABBA, and the fifth, bizarrely, said…
Music // Arctic Monkeys – Brick by Brick
“I wanna build you up/brick by brick”. “I wanna rock and roll/brick by brick”. Not, perhaps, what you’d expect to hear from former man-of-the-people, then desert roaming self-exiled poet Alex Turner of the…
Review // Ringo Deathstarr – Ringo Deathstarr
My Bloody Valentine. There. Now that’s out of the way. The Texas threesome Ringo Deathstarr’s unwavering love for the shoegazing pioneers, along with all things distorted, is evident right from the off. Off-kilter…
