INTERVIEW : “Drawn To The Dark Side” – Embers.
The focus on Manchester’s music scene recently has seen many banging the dusty old drum of a band who made one reasonable album and sang“ The past was yours. But the future’s mine.” A fact
Track ( and Video) Of The Day- Friday Freebie – IO Echo – When the Lillies Die
IO ECHO is Ioanna Gika and Leopold Ross. They mix industrial beats, dream pop and driving electro with the sort of gorgeous pop melodies that makes us want to go out and quite literally fuck
Track Of The Day – The Hypnotic Eye – Marianne
One thing that might put have initially put us off The Hypnotic Eye was the fact they’ve been labelled “flower punk”( a genre named after a song that is a piss take of another counter-culture?
Tracks Of The Day – We Are The Physics, I Am Harequin, Luls
We Are The Physics – Goran Ivanisevic We Are The Physics return today with a brand new single entitled ‘Goran Ivanisevic’. And yes it’s THAT ‘Goran Ivanisevic’, I mean how many Gorans do you know
Interview – Wrestling Crocodiles with Brandon Welchez
Words: David Cross-Kane Earlier this month we went searching the Thames for Crocodiles after a spate of sightings and rumours circulate on the Sexbeat page that there would be a gathering of the prehistoric beasts
I Am Harlequin – Craze EP – Review And Competition.
If you’d like to win a special I Am Harlequin”Craze” Ep Package, like THIS simply email us HERE and answer this question [putting “IAH Craze” in the subject line]- Which country was I Am Harlequin
Track Of The Day – Museum of Bellas Artes – Bear Cubs
It’s really no surprise that Sweden is the 3rd biggest purveyor of pop music behind the UK and The USA when they produce artists as wonderful as Museum of Bellas Artes. The Swedish trio produce
Track Of The Day(2) – Mount Fabric – Curves And Corners
Curves and Corners is the new single from Mount Fabric, released on Crystalline Recordings on 02/07/12 and it’s breathtakingly good, figuratively speaking think Radiohead with massive testicles. They’re also yet another fine band from Manchester,
Track Of The Day – Avec Sans- Heartbreak Hi ( Free Download)
Remember Avec Sans ? We introduced them a few months back with their radical electronic reworking of Bon Ivor’s ‘Perth’ , we also invented a persona for them based on a 1970’s husband and wife Detective
BBC 6 Music – Hype Machine Blog Zeitgeist – The Aftermath….
Ok so we were invited by BBC6music to pick three artists who had impressed us the most so far this year. Of course this was extremely tricky and so to narrow it down in our
Track Of The Day – Crushed Beaks – Grim
London 2 piece Crushed Beaks return with a new single, ‘Grim’, released digitally through Paint It Black and available on Itunes. Whilst Grim clocks in at under two minutes Crushed Beaks prove you don’t need
Album Review: Exlovers – “Moth”
Words: David Cross-Kane London indie-pop quintet Exlovers first burst on the scene back in 2009 with a couple of low-key releases, the first being the AA-side ‘Photobooth/Weightlessness’ which received generally positive reviews. The band then