CROPREDY FESTIVAL 2013 – Live Review (Part 1)

The 33rd Cropredy Festival, Oxfordshire

Every August, since the 1970s, the friendly and attractive village of Cropredy, near Banbury in Oxfordshire, has welcomed music-lovers of folk-rock to Fairport’s Cropredy Convention. Organised by Fairport Convention itself, it includes children and grandchildren … Read More

JOHNNY LUCAS – Lilo

Crowned in 2012 as “The Next Big Thing” by Success Express Music, Warrington singer-songwriter Johnny Lucas returns with his latest release ‘Lilo’. Combining a medley of influences from The Beatles to 90’s Brit-Pop with a pinch of modern artist … Read More

HAWK EYES – That’s What This Is

Given Hawk Eyes’ massive stylistic shift in the space between Modern Bodies and the Mindhammers/Ideas era, I was very, very curious as to what this constantly-evolving rock-pop-metal-prog-hardcore four-piece would be doing next. As it turns out, their … Read More

MODERAT – II

After their self title debut album, four years ago Moderat – side project of Modeselektor’s Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary, and Appart’s Sascha Ring – side released their second album, II.

The album opens up with a dark, introspective interlude, … Read More

SKY LARKIN – Loom

‘Loom’ by Sky Larkin, is a song about deep loss which is masked by a deceptive up beat pop sound with a vibrancy that contrasts beautifully with the overall message of the song. Of the song lead singer Katie … Read More

ADRIAN ROYE & THE EXILES – Reclaimed

What initially appeared to be a very chilled out, easy listening album soon became a world of interesting cross rhythms, harmonies and catchy songs. Reclaimed is the recently released debut album of folk band Adrian Roye & … Read More

FAKE CLUB – Beauty Queen

Energetic Punk-Rock group Fake Club’s ‘Beauty Queen’ combines a scrappy Dance oriented sound from bands like The Ting Tings with the Punk-Grunge styling’s of Courtney Love’s hit band Hole resulting in an upbeat, gritty and lively tune.

Kicking off … Read More

A$AP FERG – Hood Pope

Following the success of fellow A$AP Mob member A$AP Rocky earlier this year, it is now the turn for another A$AP Mob member A$AP Ferg to release his latest single from his upcoming album. Hood Pope comes from the … Read More

LION BARK – Two Prongs

Unsigned band Lion Bark release their first proper song, ‘Two Prongs‘. The vocals have a lovely retro feel to them, 1950’s heartthrob style, especially with the harmonic backing. Melodically, the guitars have a dreamy and summery sound to them. … Read More

BOMBERS – Forecast

After previous critically acclaimed tracks Bombers (Birmingham, England) chose to diminish their addiction to minimalist dark sound and moved their career on with a bit more challenging ‘Forecast’ single to be digitally released on August 5th.  Clinging on to … Read More