Interview
Meet: The Silhouette Era
Far from the sun drenched beaches and endless summer of their Southern cousins, the North California surf scene is more about grey skies, steely grey ocean and freezing dawns. It might sound grim, but it’s a way of life that local band The Silhouette Era have embraced to the full. The bands latest album,’Beacons’ draws influences …
Interview: The Mantells + new single ‘Payday Playboys’
Manchester 3-piece indie rockers The Mantells have been together for just over 18 months and have been very busy. Last year’s single ‘Men In Suits’ was well received by music bloggers and gig goers alike. Now back with the ‘Payday Playboys’ Ep, Nina Fritsch caught up with singer Tom Barrow to talk about the importance …
Meet: Punk legend Hugh Cornwell interview
No More Heroes, Golden Brown and Peaches are just some of the 20 odd hits singles Hugh Cornwell had a hand in penning before he left punk legends The Stranglers in 1990. Over the last two decades he has recorded 11 solo albums that have never had the commercial success he enjoyed with the band, …
Premiere: Babytooth – “Big Bass” + Meet the band
Since first forming in 2013, Babytooth have built up a rep as a fine live band. Today see’s them premiere their debut release ‘Big Bass’. Not only are we stoked to be bringing you the track – we are also pretty chuffed to be able to give you all a proper introduction … BM: Ok, lets …
Meet: Black Delta Movement interview
We’ve seen them live on numerous occasions and we’ve been spinning their trippy, garage psychedelia on the Backseat mafia turntable for quite some time. So we thought it was about time we introduced you to The Black Delta Movement. We sat down with lead singer Matt to ask a few basic questions about one of our …
Meet: The Soft Moon interview, plus UK tour dates
On the back of the release of his third studio album ‘Deeper’, The Soft Moon aka Luis Vasquez has released details of a huge tour spanning both sides of the Atlantic, as well as a new video for one of the albums stand-out tracks, ‘Wrong’. The album itself alternates between dark and eerie electronica, and …
Meet: Boxed In’s Oli Bayston
Boxed In is the vehicle respected producer Oli Bayston has chosen to fuse his vision of indie, funk and electronica. He’s put together a crack band who are getting on the road for some UK dates before jetting to the States for a short tour. He also knocks out tunes for other artists, and rumour …
Meet: Drawing Blood, A Talk With Table Scraps
Every once in a while you come across a band that legitimately rocks. There’s no posing or jumping on the bandwagon. There’s something honest and visceral about the music. Something genuinely scary, too. Scott Vincent Abbot and Poppy Twist of Birmingham’s Table Scraps can be very scary. And they rock. Table Scraps take that boy/girl rock …
Meet: John J Presley interview
Sometime guitarist for Duke Garwood John J Presley is very much an artist in his own right, as previous singles Honeybee and Left amply demonstrated, and now he’s back with a new EP, White Ink, which drops on July 24th. It’s a mix of blues, with a dose of psych, indie and Mogwai (a stated …
Meet: We interview Liverpool based trio Elevant
Liverpool trio, Elevant, could hardly be described as workshy. In less than a year they’ve released two full length albums, completed two comprehensive national tours and numerous local gigs and rather than take a rest, they’re all eager to get on with the third long player, and continue with even more touring. Just as they …