matinee recordings – Backseat Mafia

Track: The Perfect English Weather release the gorgeous indie pop of London By The Sea / Flames

The Perfect English Weather – Simon and Wendy Pickles of 90s indie pop favourites The Popguns, return with a double offering that reaffirms their gift for crafting wistful, melodic indie pop soaked…

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Track: Legendary Brighton indie pop outfit The Popguns roar back with new and brilliant EP – Popism

Those of us of a certain vintage will remember the The Popguns, and the 90s band of some repute are back with a new single/ep ‘Popism’, that shows they’ve lost…

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Track: Bubblegum Lemonade – Heaven With You

Bubblegum Lemonade – Heaven With You EP ‘Heaven With You’ is the second single from Bubblegum Lemonade’s smash new album ‘Desperately Seeking Sunshine’. It is a radio hit featuring a…

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Track: Azure Blue – Event Horizon + ‘Images Of You’ sampler

Azure Blue – Event Horizon The brilliant new single from the forthcoming ‘Images Of You’ album by Sweden’s Azure Blue, ‘Event Horizon’ will recall the best of OMD, with a…

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Album Review: Various Artists – A Sunday Matinee

Where would we be without Matinee Recordings? The Santa Barbara label is celebrating its fifteenth year of releasing indie pop, and have just released this compilation of track as a…

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See: Seabirds reveal new video for Real Tears

I been to Nottingham a lot. I even used to work there actually, in a lace factory. Lace is one of the things that the city is well-known for, along…

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New Music: Bubblegum Lemonade – Have you seen Faith?

Bubblegum Lemonade is an offshoot of sorts for Lawrence ‘Loz’ McClusky, who is usually one half of Strawberry Whiplash with Sandra McClusky. He makes what is essentially pure jangly indie-pop…

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