Counting Crows – Underwater Sunshine

Counting Crows come back with their first independent release, and to celebrate their love (or better still, obsession) with geeky music, they covered a bunch of their favourite artists, such as The Faces, gram Parsons, Tender Mercies and Big … Read More

The Mowgli’s set to release debut album on 1st May

The Golden State’s sunny septet The Mowgli’s are set to release their debut LP entitled ‘Sound the Drum’ on 1st May 2012 via their own label The Collective CA. Their full-length debut features the latest single “I’ve Been Around,” … Read More

Ed Vallance – Volcano

Ed Vallance’s Volcano has a nice gloss to it. It feels like a record that’s been gone over with a nice helping of Mr Sheen – the sort of stuff that’ll make your average Coldplay hater want to wretch. … Read More

Modern Faces – Cynical Brother and Pravda Scrolls

Whilst they’re probably sick of being compared to their chums Kasabian, there’s no escaping the fact that Modern Faces are from that same vein of nineties swagger rock and roll, tinged with psychedelia. Even these tracks’ titles, Cynical Brother … Read More

Quickbeam – Seven Hundred Birds

Glasgow confirms its characteristic as post-rock goldmine once again with a new band debuting. In the land of Mogwai this time is the turn of Quickbeam, a six piece that, instead of focusing on thick walls of sounds as … Read More

LHF ‘Keepers Of The Light’ out now

Keysound Recordings announce the release of ‘Keepers Of The Light’, the long awaited debut album by LHF, out early last week (2nd April). The album follows and absorbs their three official Keysound releases to date: EP1 ‘Enter in Silence’, … Read More

New single from Copywrite feat. Sean Price and London’s S.A.S.

‘Troop Jackets’ is taken from the album “God Save The King (Proper English Version)” which will be released on Man Bites Dog Records on the 15th May 2012.

The album’s full tracklist below:

Gypsy Pistoleros play London this Wednesday (11th April) with very special guests

Spanglish-speaking “flamenco glam” rebels Gypsy Pistoleros play a London launch show for ‘Forever Wild, Beautiful & Damned! Greatest Hits Vol 1’ this Wednesday 11th April at St.Moritz on Wardour Street.

The band set to be joined by some very special … Read More

Sparks announce Bush Hall show (13th June)

Sparks announce an extraordinary performance that will see them deconstruct and reinterpret songs from their own extensive and unique catalogue.

For the first time, Ron and Russell Mael will play an entire concert as a duo using just voice … Read More

Deep Blues Festival on 29th – 30th June & 1st July 2012 (Minnesota, US)

June 29th – 30th & July 1st 2012 @ The Bayport BBQ, MN

The Deep Blues 2012 will be held at Chris Johnson’s Bayport BBQ in Minnesota, and will feature 26 acts, including the following Alive Naturalsound bands:

BUFFALO … Read More