Track Of The Day (2) – The Joy Formidable – This Ladder Is Ours
I wasn’t planning to post two ‘Tracks of the Day today, after all a boy’s gotta eat! However when this arrived in my mail box, I had no choice, The Joy Formidable roar back in
Track Of The Day (1) – Little Sparrow – The Hunted (A Bear’s Tale)
Occasionally a singer comes along in possession of a voice of such extraordinary beauty allied to songs of unflinching emotional honesty that its effect on the listener can be quite profound. Moreover, like all great
Avec Sans – The Answer – Free Download
Remember Avec Sans, the mysterious duo whose name sounds rather like an avant-garde font and whose music sounds like an ascension to heaven? Remember their incredible electronic reworking of Bon Ivers ‘Perth’ that managed to
Track Of The Day – The Prison Library – Lovesick
North East band The Prison Library’s latest offering “Lovesick” is something a little more than merely a great song full of sweet melodic hooks, driving rhythm and intelligent dark, heartfelt lyrics. It’s also the sound
Track Of The Day – NO CEREMONY/// – FEELSOLOW – Free Download
Oh, do fuck off Manchester, with your achingly cool bands, amazing musical diversity, friendly eateries, and ample free street parking (after 8pm) stop being so darn bloody good and give the rest of the country
Ariel Pink and The Scouse Gits
We don’t generally carry too many news items on this blog, basically because we feel an endless stream of news will clog up the blog and the actual music may get a little lost. And
Track Of The Day – Big Wave – Only You
Big Wave are on a roll, in the wake of a spectacularly GREAT EP – “The Roots of Love (Come Tumbling Down)’’ and a wonderful free download ‘Dying On The Vine’’ they release their début
“Love is Blindness” – Blindness Interview
“Dangerous, swaggering, dramatic, dark and sexy” is not a description you’d employ to describe the music of Mumford & Sons, but when it comes to writing about London four piece Blindness it should be MANDATORY!
Track Of The Day 2 – Swiss Lips – ‘In The Water’
Swiss Lips are back! Yup those lads from Manchester with the rather rude name, who describe themselves as “Pop sorcerers, going straight to hell” and who we’d previously described as having “more hooks than Abu
Track Of The Day – IO ECHO – Ministry of Love
Last time we featured IO ECHO we came out with the slightly bizarre assertion that they’d managed to arouse such feelings of intense joy that we had an urge to “go out and quite literally fuck
PINS – UK TOUR – Live In Liverpool And Manchester Review
PINS appearance in Liverpool last week heralded the start of their first headline tour in support of their superb new ‘LuvU4Lyf ‘ EP. The venue itself, the quirkily named, nautically themed ‘Shipping Forecast’ is pretty
“Legends Of The Fall” – September Girls Interview.
September Girls are a five-piece girl group based over in the fair city of Dublin. And yes, you may well have guessed they do indeed play the sort of reverb-soaked garage pop that we at