New Blood: Slam Donahue
Their story goes like this…David Otto & Tom Sommerville (2/3rds of Slam Donahue) were once in rival bands, competing for the limited stage time in their backwater hometown. But after years of competing,…
New Blood: Haim
Hailing from the San Fernando Valley, HAIM consists of, “Three sisters, and a mister” they’ve been shaking things up in the city of Los Angeles for the past four years with their homegrown…
New Blood: iAm1
Singer song writer Oli Rose and MC Jamie Wallace together make up iAm1, an acoustic hip hop act formed at Westminster Uni. Usually I run as far as I can from artist descriptions…
SIREN – Buckets Of Blood
21-year old Stefan Evan Niedermeyer aka SIREN is a smorgasbord of cultures, all wrapped up in one man – Half-German, half-Australian, raised in Singapore and now residing in London. The one time skateboarding…
New Blood: Kissey
Over the last two years, jumping between her two homes (Stockholm and New York), Kissey (formerly, Kissey Asplund) dove deep into an enclosed world of bass-heavy speakers, songwriting and beat-making, even enrolling herself…
New Blood: Toy Tigers
The latest signing to the flourishing Moda Music label, Toy Tigers is primed and ready. But in all truth he’s been hiding in the background the whole time. 1/4 Part responsible for the…
I Swim With Sharks – Just Be Good
Yorkshire upstarts I Swim With Sharks have just dropped the new video for their latest single ‘Just Be Good’. Depicting the band in the chaos of World War One trench warfare (explosions, planes,…
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…
New Blood – Kimbra
Quirky female solo artist in the vein of Bjork and Kate Bush: a phrase that seems a bit tired now? Well maybe you should think again. New Zealand’s Kimbra is trying to reinvent…
New Blood – Look Stranger!
Take half a cup of Scritti Politti, add a dash of Antony & The Johnsons, top with a Stereolab crust and gently simmer in Trip Hop and you will have yourself a taste…
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…
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…
New Blood // VETO
For a band that’s about to release their third studio album “Everything Is Amplified” its seems a bit obtuse to introduce the band as New Blood. Discovering the band in late 2008 after…
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…
New Blood // Ringo Deathstarr
Ringo Deathstarr hail from Austin, Texas they formed back in 2007, brought together by their love of bands such as The Cure, The Smiths, Fugazi and The Velvet Underground.They have previously released a…
New Blood // Hiatus
Hiatus aka Cyrus Shahrad has been sampling away for years, going through influences of his old fathers vinyl’s to Persian singers making his first record ‘Ghost Notes’ rather deep and home-grown. Listening from ‘Black…
New Blood // Niki And The Dove
There are a handful of places in this world where musical talent practically flows on tap: one of these places is undoubtedly Sweden. From the early days Sweden has provided us with pop…
New Blood // Friends Electric
Friends Electric is a band spawned not by a scene, but a burning desire to make people dance. You can hear it in the pop hooks at the deep heart of their songs and…
New Blood // Memotone
Using everything from drops from a tap to the crash of a brick samples of life can be heard throughout Memotone’s music. Being hard to place into one category, this music is genre spanning…
New Blood // Various Cruelties
Formed over a rant about the differences between Sam Cooke, Arcade Fire, Etta James and MGMT, Various Cruelties are a White City, London four piece who are looking to make their dent in…
New Blood // Liam Bailey
Where to start? Mr Bailey is an unstoppable force in music at the moment. With an extensive musical education through a variety of non traditional channels, no Brit school for Liam, just drunken conversations with…
New Blood // Shake Aletti
Shake Aletti is the latest signing to the ever expanding Moda Music label. With a growing reputation for working with the hottest talent, the Moda boys have hand picked Shake to be their…
New Blood // Beat Connection
Ironic, isn’t it? We come out of a summer of ups and downs and suddenly to get hammered with a whole host of dance music: everything from the strict end of Aeroplane and…
New Blood // Camo & Krooked
Edgy, pulsating and exhilarating; this is exactly how drum and bass should be. Renowned Austrian producers Camo and Krooked have joined forces in a new project which looks like it’s going to re-write…
New Blood // Japanese Cartoon
Did you know Lupe Fiasco has a post punk band? Well under his real name Wasalu Muhammad Jaco he is one quarter of Japanese Cartoon, along with producer Graham Burris, Matt Nelson &…
New Blood // Ocelot
Ocelot, are without a doubt, worthy of yours, and everyone else’s attention. The pair, consisting of Cory Kilduff from Dallas Texas, and James Welsh from Keighley, Yorkshire, have been on both the British…
New Blood // Napoleon IIIrd
Graham Cooling introduces us to Napoleon IIIrd, the experimental electro pop maestro from Leeds.
New Blood // KLAUS
Adam Hockley takes a quick look at KLAUS ahead of his performance at one our favourite Tuesday night haunts.
New Blood // Gabby Young & Other Animals
Charles Darkly introduces us to Gabby Young and her ‘lovely dysfunctional family’…
New Blood // Janelle Monae
Martyn Cooling introduces us to space-funk songstress Janelle Monae and her debut LP – The ArchAndroid.
