Track Of The Day – Candy Says – Favourite Flavour
We caught Candy Says during the Manchester leg of the Dot 2 Dot festival playing that ‘difficult’ early evening slot. We were informed by singer Ju Ju that it was actually only about their third
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Tracks Of The Day – Saint Agnes – ‘Old Bone Rattle’ and ‘The Tower Falls’
Photo – © Gary Morrisroe. What happens when two of the coolest and most stylish hairstyles in music meet? The answer is Saint Agnes, a new musical project consisting of Jon from the Lost Souls
Songs To Learn And Sing – Chrvches, Skinny Dream, Laurel,Tieranniesaur, Big Wave, Tokyo Taboo, Avec Sans
CHVRCHES We’ve been quite slow getting into Chvrches, whilst other blogs wet their pants with excitement and danced a jig of glee we remained firmly on the fence. After reflection and a wish to hear
Track Of The Day – STILLS – ‘1kX’
Electronic musician Felix and visual artist/singer songwriter Andree make up electronic duo Stills. The shadowy, beguiling “1kX” is a wonderful example of how to write understated left-field electronica that manages to be emotionally engaging, yet
Sharkmuffin – Mermaid Sex Slave
If you took the collective DNA of Bikini Kill, The Slits The Cramps, The White Stripes, The Ramones and Sleater Kinney you could end up with a band that sounds something like Brooklyn’s Sharkmuffin. It’s
Track Of The Day – Everything by Electricity – ‘Violet Haze.’
They take their name from a quote in Jules Verne’s 2000 Leagues under the Sea; they play symphonic electronica with a dream pop sensibility and at times, they sound rather like Emily Haines fronting the
Track Of The Day – AELIUS – ‘Echoes’
AELIUS is the name of Caesar Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus Buccellanus Augustus, or Hadrian to you and I. It’s a pretty apt name for electro-duo Martin Roberts and Lee Tyler to have adopted as their collective
Track Of The Day – The New Fabian Society – ‘Cyclophymia’
The New Fabian Society unleash a brutal raw jackhammering sonic assault, imbued with the sort of dark drama bands like the Editors can only dream of aspiring to. The band describe themselves as a “bi
Track Of The Day – KALA – Silver Coloured Shore.
We are almost recovered from Liverpool Sound City – more on that later, but this track is just what the doctor ordered, appropriately from a new Liverpool based electro duo called KALA (which apparently means
Lexy And The Kill – ‘We Can Dance Alone’ – Exclusive Free Download
We first featured Lexy and The Kill back at the start of the year describing her as singer who was blessed with a “powerful emotive, soulful voice who arrives armed with a clutch of songs
Track Of The Day – Bon Bon – Lois Lane
We happened across a couple of Sian King’s demos last year (for it is she who is Bon-Bon, but shhh keep that under your hat) and recall being rather impressed. And it would certainly not have been
Track Of The Day – Kid Kin – Le Prieur Rockets.
This week we were guest reviewer on Tom Robinson’s Fresh on the Net which was hugely enjoyable and opened our ears to lots of exciting new artists, which is of course Fresh on The Net’s