Gaggle – Army Of Birds

Wow. Just… wow. Gaggle’s ‘Army Of Birds’ is a lush, disorientating beast. Listening to it for the first time, not only am I clouted round the ears by a huge hip-hop stomp of a beat, but I’m surrounded by … Read More

Soulsavers – The Light The Dead See

Soulsavers, the project created by the wicked mind of Rich Machin and Ian Glover, produce their fourth creature, The Light The Dead See, a compendium of darkness in twelve tracks. This album sees the collaboration of Dave Gahan, which … Read More

DO IT WITH A ROCKSTAR FREE MP3 give-away from Amanda Palmer’s Website & 6 City Exclusive Art and Acoustic Events

Singer, songwriter, piano-slayer, super blogger, Amanda Palmer is preparing to release her first new studio album in four years, in conjunction with her new band, The Grand Theft Orchestra, featuring Michael McQuilken, Chad Raines and Jherek Bischoff. The album, ‘Amanda Palmer & the … Read More

Gurrumul to perform at Queen’s Jubilee concert and announces European festivals

Gurrumul Yunupingu will be joining a host of stars to perform at the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Concert on June 4th 2012. The blind indigenous Australian singer and musician, who also performed for Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal … Read More

Florence + the Machine to headline Bestival: exclusive Wildlife video + Miike Snow added to line-up

HEADLINE FRIDAY NIGHT AT BESTIVAL

PLUS MIIKE SNOW JOIN OUR WILDLIFE EXTRAVAGANZA Bestival, Robin Hill Country Park, Isle Of Wight – 6th to 9th September 2012 www.bestival.net @bestival facebook.com/bestivalfestival #wildlife

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Still Flyin – On A Bedroom Wall

Holy wow. Y’ever had that moment where a song or an album creeps up on you? Where something starts out as pedestrian but nice enough to keep on listening and lets you lose interest until later, when you come … Read More

Exitmusic – Passage

To have a sense of scale in pop music means that everything, including the appreciation of the music, is amplified. To illustrate, one must only look at the last two Muse albums. Black Holes and Revelations is considered to … Read More

Esperi – Come Dine With Me

Whisper, whisper; tinkly noises; softly, softly strumming the guitar; rustling, rustling sound effects; soft, slow, quiet, repetitive, and so on, and so on, and so forth. This is essentially the order of the day on the rather dull track … Read More

Halfway To New York – Treading Water

Entitling an EP Treading Water is an open invitation to smart-arse critics to make some very obvious allusions to the nature of the music – and I’m certainly not going to be one to avoid such lazy and unimaginative … Read More

The Darlingtons – Bats

Bats, a single from the Darlington’s forthcoming debut Decades Dance, is a 4-minute, emotion-packed guitar track. The dark imagery that surfaces plays cohesively with the playful bass-line and pathos-filled guitars and lyrics. This places The Darlingtons’ sound somewhere between … Read More