pop
Track: Isla Noon is back with another fine pop delight with ‘I Need To Go Home’
We can all relate to that feeling after long night out filled with excess when you wish you could just press a button and be magically transported to the comfort and safety of your own home. New Zealand pop chanteuse Isla Noon makes a triumphant return with a follow up to her single ‘Talk About …
News: New Zealand’s pop prodigy BENEE announces world tour for 2022 and releases exquisite shimmering single ‘Doesn’t Matter’
New Zealand pop sensation BENEE has just announced her first world tour since the pandemic struck, with forty shows scheduled in the northern hemisphere (Europe and the UK in April-May and North America in June) well as new and rescheduled shows on her New Zealand tour in February-March, followed by her return to Australia – for the …
Live Review: Self Esteem – Leadmill, Sheffield 12.11.2021
The buzz of anticipation was all but overwhelming. Like most cities, Sheffield looks after their own – those people that were at Pulps ‘last ever’ gig, or those nights at the arena watching Arctic Monkeys will attest to that, and the next on the conveyor belt of steel city talent heading for those echelons is …
Premiere: Richard Orofino Shares The Lead Single ‘Scratch Off’ Taken From His EP Chimaera
Brooklyn based singer-songwriter Richard Orofino is a decorated artist and producer who has collaborated with a diverse group of artists in NY, LA, Nashville and London including Evan Voytas (UPSAHL, Loyal Lobos), Isaac Flynn (Hembree) and John Carroll-Kirby (Solange, Connan Mockasin). After discovering the art of production in 2013, he has been able to fuse …
Tracks: Bossa Bandits – Don’t Ask Me
Don’t Ask Me is the fifth single to be release by British Latin-Crossover band Bossa Bandits and previews from their forthcoming album ‘All true stories’. Clive B Bossa comments: “Do you know someone who is always looking at their phone? And do you know someone who is always looking at your phone? Its about that! …
Track: Laura Mac release the bright and effervescent debut ‘Garage Full Of Dreams’: sparkling rays of sunlight straight out of the Sunshine Coast
‘Garage Full Of Dreams’ is the debut single from Sunshine Coast’s Laura Mac: a cheeky, hyperactive track filled with attitude and verve. Laura Mac is in fact a duo consisting of Laura Maclachlan and Zac Connely who romantically met at the music festival Splendour In The Grass where the couple fell in love, moved to …
Track: The Waterboys – The Liar
The Waterboys return with another album All Souls Hill due 22nd April 2022 via Cooking Vinyl. The band have shared the video for the first single ‘The Liar’. The video, features a haunting image by satirical collagist Cold War Steve. Mike Scott comments “The Liar is a comment on recent and still-current events, and both the …
Track: Coyle Girelli – From 7th Street With Love
‘From 7th Street With Love’ is the second single to be lifted from ‘Funland’, the forthcoming new solo album by New York City based English singer-songwriter Coyle Girelli due next year via Honey Lemon records. A gorgeous and atmospheric piano-based paean to his adopted home, of which he states: “I wrote it during the depths …
Premiere: We get an exclusive look at the video for Australian country pop sensation Rachael Fahim’s effervescent song, ‘Darts in the Dark’
‘Darts in the Dark’ is a bright and bubbling track that shines and radiates joy, yet a thread of melancholy gives it a bittersweet edge both in the lyrics and Australian singer Rachael Fahim‘s delicate yearning vocals. We are pleased to be able to provide an exclusive look at the video accompanying this piece of …
Live Review: Pastiche / T A D H G – Upstairs at Whelans, Dublin 11.11.2021, plus galleries
In the intimate upstairs at Whelans, two future pop stars peddled their significant wares to a enthusiastic sold out crowd. Opening up was singer-songwriter T A D H G, who played a half hour set on the piano, sounding and performing a bit like Elton John, as if there were ever a better compliment. T …