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Meet Tove Styrke
Tove Styrke may only be 22 years old but the Swedish electropop sensation has managed to release two albums and a whole heap of singles, tour across Europe and the United States and oh yes, finished third in the 2009 series of Swedish Idol! I chat to her ahead of her slot supporting British electronic …
Not Forgotten: Aretha Franklin – Aretha Now
I have no wish to put the cat among the pigeons, but I have to confess that I marginally prefer Aretha Now above the more widely celebrated I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You. As great as Aretha Franklin’s debut for Atlantic is, Aretha Now boasts a measure more lightness of touch …
Track: ESTRONS – ‘Make A Man’
ESTRONS craft that elusive breed of barbed hook, guaranteed to leave you dangling on their line and dancing to their tune. Their Bio informs; ESTRONS are an Alternative Rock band based in Cardiff, UK. Fronted by Canadian-Swede Taliesyn Kallström, they bring punchy melodic songs, combined with powerful vocals, loud raw guitars and busy beats. Meaning ‘ALIENS’ in their …
Premiere: Terminal Gods – Movement
Forget the bright lights of Soho and Wardour street, if you want to get the real stuff you’ve go to get into the alleys and backstreets, the underbelly, the darker, neon lit parts of town. This is where the good stuff lurks, it’s also the natural habitat for the likes of London four-piece Terminal Gods.Tonight, …
Track: The Bandicoots – Overnight Innovator
We’re Back! claimed the email. We bowed our heads in shame that we’d not just missed the Hamilton, Ontario quartet The Bandicoots, but completely missed whatever it was they were doing before they went away. That shame ran even deeper when we listened to the band (Nicolai Kozel, Andrew Parkinson, Lorant Polya and Justin Ross, …
Track: Marcus Marr & Chet Faker – The Trouble With Us
Taken from their forthcoming EP, Work, out on Detail Records on December 4th, The Trouble With Us is the new single from Chet Faker and South London based DJ Marcus Marr. Seems an unlikely partnership, given that the Australian producer Faker lives in Brooklyn, but the pair met via Twitter. As Marr commented “Nick posted …
Not Forgotten – Fleetwood Mac – Tusk
Back in the day Tusk was one of the most anticipated albums ever released. Rumours had launched Fleetwood Mac to the eye-watering heights of rock music’s mega-league, despite the increasingly strained relationships between the five band members, and expectation for its follow up had reached fever pitch. Behind the scenes at Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham …
See: Jodie Abacus releases video for “Good Feeling”
Its getting dark outside, its raining, the cat’s mewing to be fed, the kids are becoming more like zombies ever minute they spend on whatever probably wholly inappropriate game they’ve talked me into downloading last, and yet here I am, sat amongst it all, with a smile on my face. It’s all down to Jodie …
Album Review: Keep Shelly in Athens – Now I’m ready
Everything seemed to be rosy in Greek duo Keep Shelly in Mind’s world, at least from the outside following the release of their highly regarded debut album, 2012’s At Home. However, shortly afterwards, lead singer Shelly P left to persue a solo career, and the future of the band, given that they were 50% lighter …
News: Lisbon announce new UK tour
Up and coming north east band Lisbon are set to hit the road again in 2016, bringing their vibrant slices of electronic pop to the masses once more. They completed a successful tour of UK venues earlier this year and saw the release of their “Life is Good” EP which featured amongst its indie pop …