Greg Sanderson is our first victim for our brand new feature 21 Questions.
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Listen/review: Chick Quest - Savant Garde
It serves as hope to those who see rock and roll getting lobotomised by commercial culture.
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Listen/review: The Comet Is Coming – Final Eclipse
The Comet Is Coming's final release of the year is another sax-piloted body of banging cosmic jazz
Read MoreNews/review: Lost In The Manor at Blogtober 7/10/16
Reflecting on our own evening at The Finsbury's Blogtober, where The fin., Bokito and The Coolness ensured it was a night for the memoirs
Read MoreListen/review: Chocolat - Ah Ouin
From what we’ve heard so far, Rencontrer Looloo will be the sleeper hit of the year with its unique synergy of psych and art rock.
Read MoreListen/review: Chocolat - Les Pyramides
Tangential like jazz, eccentric like Roxy Music - all with a vague chemical headiness.
Read MoreWatch/review: The Comet Is Coming – Space Carnival
'Space Carnival'’s inventive momentum soon blasts into a different dimension as the astronauts hit warp speed to a rush of hallucinogenic psych-house and kaleidoscopic visuals. It’s a vivid trip
Read MoreLost In Transmission 6
Presenting a quintet of fresh tracks evenly executed by six-string and synth but unified by heavyweight intent. After all, ain't it time you gave your ears a January workout...
Read MoreLost In Transmission 5: 18/12/15
In need for some summery tunes? Head no further, our latest playlist features the latest sounds from Jude Woodhead, EPISODES, Haize, Labradoor and Childcare. Wrap your ears around it...
Read MoreListen/review: Cavern Of Anti-Matter – Melody In High Feedback Tones
Mike Oldfield-like arpeggios, twinkle-grit synths and motorik drumming is set to a wistful progression that delivers in spades before dipping out ungracefully in a clunky electro-funk finale.
Read MoreLive review: Caspian and Jo Quail, The Dome, 2/11/15
Caspian hit that glorious sweet spot where every note just sat right and emanated energy throughout the room, vibrating through the audience. It was a killer performance
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Watch/review: Samantha Crain – Killer
"A great track with a powerful message, but the video is truly something special. It’s been described as a call for people to not take the media and their leaders at their word but to seek the reality of situations for themselves, and I couldn't possibly think of a more eloquent way of explaining what has been produced here."
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Photos: The Happy Hollows, Reykjavik Kids, Crash Island, Long Teeth – The Finsbury 9/6/2015
Exclusive shots from a brilliant four-band showcase at The Finsbury, topped by California's Happy Hollows on the last date of their UK tour to promote new single 'Astrid'
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Listen/Review: C Duncan – Say
Listen/Review: C Duncan – For
No easy feat, a well-placed whistle can be a boon to a tune. Think Otis Redding (naturally), Air, Peter, Bjorn & John (begrudgingly), and put Bryan bloody Ferry firmly to the back of your mind. Here’s another contender, new FatCat signing C Duncan, who purses his lips as if conducting a pleasingly mellifluous march during new single ‘For’.
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Listen: Candy Darling - Money
Candy Darling are named after Lou Reed’s transgender muse, so it’s perhaps no surprise that their debut single is all brash melodrama. Yet the camp theatrics of the Bristol trio’s grinding electro noir is shot through with malice on ‘Money’, a spurned lover’s defiant stand given edge by the cold-hearted clarity of Emily Breeze’s powerful vocal (reminiscent of Karen O’s), as she proclaims:
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Watch: Childhood - Solemn Skies + UK Tour
Following the release of their critically acclaimed debut single ‘Blue Velvet’ last November, London four-piece Childhood will release their new double a-side single ‘Solemn Skies’ / ‘Semester’ digitally and on 10-inch vinyl on 10th June 2013 on House Anxiety/Marathon Artists. The two tracks were produced by Rory Attwell, formerly of Test Icicles.
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