As dull pervasive dinner party electronica and flaccid corporate coffee shop pop continues to be popular with many bloggers, DJ’s and ‘tastemakers’ we’ve increasingly sought refuge in something that sounds a little more visceral. Thankfully
Is it the melody, the reverb, the boy/girl vocals, the fuzzy guitar rush? Is it perhaps the growling bass line, the driving percussion or the fact that lead singer and guitarist Leon Butler is joined
Before we started the VPME we saw bloggers as a threat to the old world order and regarded them as a singularly odd breed… spending hours on end in their mothers basements hunched over their laptops,
Humberside five-piece Night Flowers had already piqued the interest of the online music community when their debut release ‘Single Beds’ landed last year. It was a sweet jangling pop song in the C86 Veronica Falls
Auction for the Promise Club’s majestic new single ‘Ghosts’, has a vague air of what perhaps Harriet Wheeler fronting Radiohead could have sounded like, mixing the ethereal with controlled but nevertheless explosive power. The band
It must be pretty galling when you’re as talented and passionate a band as Bleech if you happened across the so- called ‘tastemaker’ lists that emerge at beginning of every year rammed with some of
The video for Manchester duo Bernard & Edith’s début single puts us in mind of “Noodles” Aaronson getting royal f**ked up in an opium den, in Sergei Leonie’s flawed masterpiece ‘Once Upon A Time In
KUBALOVE is a solo electronic artist sound who combines shoegazey atmospherics with experimental electronica and sensual synthpop. She is currently completing her début solo EP which will be released later in the year. Her first
A few weeks back we featured St Louis duo Sleepy Kitty as our ‘track of the day; with the immense ‘Don’t You Start.’ We then introduced them on Amazing Radio and we’ve described their second
Katie Cruel is the alter ego/ musical brainchild of Wendy Rae Fowler, who has previously collaborated with the likes of Queens of the Stone Age, Mark Lanaegan, The Duke Spirit, and We Fell to Earth.
LA high school rockers Cherry Glazerr fronted by 17 year old songwriter and guitarist Clementine Creevy have just unleashed their début album ‘Haxel Princess’ on Burger records. It’s an album about cats, dogs, birds, bees;
They may still be too young to legally purchase an alcoholic refreshment on licensed premises, but age appears to be no barrier to Brighton newcomers grasshopper (small g) when it comes to producing music of
