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Premiere: Hardoe – Bvlgari Vision
F. Williams, aka Hardoe, is building a bit of a reputation for himself the UK Hip-Hop game. The South Londoner initially started out as a producer, but later discovered that he had a passion for performance and rapping. Since then he has released a couple of mixtapes – the first a collaboration with musical accomplice …
See: Many Things release video for Holy Fire
Ahead of their debut album ‘Burn Together’, out this summer on Australian label Dew Process, home to the likes of London Grammar, Circa Waves, Mumford and Sons, James Vincent McMorrow and The Hives, London indie trio Many Things have released a video for their forthcoming single ‘Holy Fire’. Is the first glimpse of what the …
Track: Duke Dumont – The Giver (Reprise)
27th August binds me and Duke Dumont together. The worst day for a birthday. Virtually the youngest person at school, if not actually the youngest person at the school, and the last to get a provisional licence, the last to turn 18. Worse still, if you wanted anyone to come to your birthday party (especially …
Indie: Jungle Doctors – Settle
Despite not actually being doctors, of either the jungle or indeed everything else, London five piece Jungle Doctors have been prescribing healthy doses of indie rock to an increasingly attentive (and growing) band of listeners. That journey, such as it is, began in earnest with the release of their first EP in 2012, and began …
Track: Happyness – ‘A Whole New Shape’ and ‘Weird Little Birthday’ Reissue news
If you were lucky enough to have caught South London trio Happyness in one of their support slots for Slow Club in February or JAWS at the start of March then you’ll know what a great band they are. I managed to catch them at their gig at Queen’s Social Club in Sheffield and they looked …
Track: Furs – I Wanna Know
If you’ve been out to see Gaz Coombes on tour recently, the likelihood is you’ll have seen London quartet Furs as well. Certainly Coombes has been lavishing praise upon them as they go. Ahead of the release of their debut album later in the year, the band are back with a new single, I Wanna …
Album Review: Public Service Broadcasting – The Race for Space
The Race for Space is the much anticipated follow up to Public Service Broadcasting’s May 2013 debut ‘Inform – Educate – Entertain’, which reached number 21 in the UK Album Chart and garnered rave reviews and award nominations in it’s wake. Public Service Broadcasting are pseudonymous musical duo J. Willgoose, Esq and Wrigglesworth who weave samples from …
Track: London quartet Little Grim release new single, Vice
Out on February 23rd is the new and debut single from London quartet Little Grim. Called ‘Vice’, lead singer and guitarist of the band Joseph Murphy describes the story behind the record as “Vice is a song based on jealousy. Like a neon light leaves a distorted impression under your eyelids, I feel jealousy distorts …
EP: Dorsia – Bygones
London production duo Dorsia kick off the new year with their second release, out through the Chasing Unicorns label on February 2nd. It follows on from their debut single Ghana which came out on LOFT records last spring and earned them support from the likes of Bicep, Tensnake, Jaques Renault and The Magician. Title track …
Album Review: Sumner – Sumner
Two years ago, there or there abouts Kristina Sarkisova arrived in London, via Moscow and Valencia with one suitcase and a guitar. Her intention, beyond seeing out the little money she had for a couple of months, was to give the ‘music thing’ a try. If she didn’t get a sign that it was worth …