Interview: COVES – Casting Shadows
By David Cross-Kane COVES, who hail from Leamington Spa are a duo comprising of John Rigard and Beck Wood. They met via the local music scene, sharing a love of great music and a penchant
INTERVIEW – Swiss Lips : They Got The Power
Swiss Lips describe themselves as “Pop sorcerers, going straight to hell” we’d rather not speculate as to exactly what they may have been getting up to warrant eternal damnation, but we’d imagine it may well
Crocodiles/Weird Dreams/Virals – SEXBEAT 5th Anniversary/Crocodiles LP Launch aboard the Royal Princess, River Thames, London – 07/06/2012
Words By David Cross-Kane – All Photos © Dan Kendall. Thirty-five years to the day since Malcolm McLaren – inspired by the French Situationists – decided to launch The Sex Pistols anti-Jubilee single ‘God Save
Catherine AD – Reprise.
Catherine AD Reprise: The Covers Collection Released: June 25th 2012 “Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful… genius in fact!” – ROB DA BANK “Like an Anglo-Celtic Tori Amos discovering the joys of Michael Nyman…A mini album that’s really
Friends, Wet Mouth: Live- The Kazimier, Liverpool 8/06/2012
In December we contacted a number of music bloggers to see if they were interested in compiling an alternative list to the BBC’s “Sound Of” predictions. The votes came in thick and fast with Brooklyn
Dot To Dot Festival Manchester – 4 June 2012.
Just over a year ago we left Glastonbury broken, exhausted and covered in rank, sickly sweet smelling mud. We’d also had our drink spiked during Pulp’s big moment and as a direct consequence we proceeded
Alt-J (∆) – An Awesome Wave – Album Review
Review by David Cross-Kane. Wedged between Jessie-J and Melody Gardot, at Number 19 Alt-J (∆) have crept into the top 20 of the UK official album chart, which these days is no mean feat for
Track Of The Day – Big Wave – Circumstance.
“Circumstance” is the lead track from Torquay quintet Big Wave’s second EP ” The Roots of Love (Come Tumbling Down)“which is released on June 11th via Soft Power Records. It’s a rather delightful slice of
Track Of The Day – Friday Freebie – Pati Yang – Wires & Sparks (Jagz Kooner Remix)
Here’s this weeks Friday Freebie, a rather splendid Jagz Kooner remix of Pati Yang’s rather splendid “Wires & Sparks.” Pati is one of Poland’s most acclaimed electronic artists who released a critically lauded album at
Track Of The Day – Foxes- “In Her Arms”
In case you didn’t know Foxes isn’t a band but the name Southampton born Louisa Rose Allen has adopted for her musical musings. We featured her as our Track Of The Day back in April
Strangeways Here We Come – The VPME Joins Strangeways Radio!
Exciting news from Von Pip Towers, we will be hosting a weekly show on Strangeways Radio very soon. Strangeways is a commercial free internet radio station and blog celebrating under-appreciated music in the genres of
COVES / She’s So Rad / Modern Borders – Live: Coves’ EP Launch at Power Lunches, London. 29/05/2012
Words by David Cross-Kane. Walking into to Power Lunches, I was greeted by a friendly promoter who seemed psyched to be hosting tonight’s event – COVES’ EP Launch. Looking over his shoulder I thought to