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Album Review: Sleigh Bells – Bitter Rivals
Far from being bitter rivals, Sleigh Bells third album actually shows they may be working towards more equality. The Brooklyn duo, singer Alexis Krauss and guitarist Derek Miller met when he served her and her mother at a restaurant. According to legend (admittedly not the most famous of legends, but a legend none the less) …
Feature: Okay, now I REALLY want to see Atoms For Peace live…
It’s not like I didn’t want to see them live before, but after watching them play on The Daily Show I have become a devout fan. Amok I believe will end up being one of my very favorite albums this year. I knew this would be the case after living with that record for a …
Track: Rodney P – Success feat. Harleighblu & Renegade Brass Band
There’s something about the vibe of Success, this earthy brass-laden soul show-stopper that has goaded me off the sofa, and filled me with the urge to write about it and, ultimately, share it. Rodney P is in the middle of something of a renaissance at the moment. fresh from the release this Summer of ‘Gangster …
Track: Triptides release the brilliant psych-pop of Prediction
Once in a while something slithers by my ears that makes me perk up a bit. Something with a certain upbeat charm that doesn’t float by as often as it should. Hell, maybe it’s me. Maybe I’m getting too old to appreciate that “new” sound. Maybe I’m too much of a curmudgeon to really enjoy …
Album Review: Smoke Fairies – Ghosts
There’s something otherworldly about Smoke Fairies. Their name, taken from the Summer mist that collects in the hedgerows of the lanes in the duo’s, school friends Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies, home county of Sussex. But it’s their ghostly goth-folk, coupled with a healthy dose of Americana, and looked over by the shadow of 4AD …
NOT FORGOTTEN – PULP – WE LOVE LIFE
Of the Brit-pop bands Pulp were something of an anomaly because they had been around in one form or another since 1978 and had gained acceptance the hard way over fifteen years, rather than being the overnight sensations that so many other big bands of the era were. Jarvis Cocker was a perfect anti-star, a …
Meet: Harleighblu, and new album news
When I was seven, I was barely into elasticated school trousers, and collecting worms out of the garden, albeit after episodes of Hong Kong Fuey. I might have managed a quick rendition of London’s Burning on the recorder on a good day, but that was about it. In contrast, Nottingham’s Harleighblu (her real name) was …
See: Wet Nuns release new video for Hanging
We’re all older, wiser than we were days ago, never mind months or years. Every 24 hours is another experience or set of experiences, feelings, happenings. The the famous saying goes ‘time waits for no man’, and so it is that just months after we first (admittedly belatedly) came across Sheffield Punk Death-Blues duo Wet …
See: White Lies release First Time Caller Video
I once was sat at the side of the Royal Albert Hall, waiting to play a concert there (I know, and I apologise for the name dropping, but it’s part of the story) as two conductors were arguing over the seating plan. If I remember rightly it was for a concert in the Proms series …
News: Dead Leaf Echo announce US Tour Dates
The celebrated American Poet Robert Frost noted that “There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.” To be fair to most teachers these days, quail shot …