Premiers
Premiere: Standard Time: Live In New York – Russ Lorenson (reviewed...
Russ Lorenson reminds us of another time. A time when sharp-suited singers entertained in sophisticated supper clubs, cool, hard-to-find basement bars and swanky uptown...
Singles
Digital Sin – Luke Tangerine (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
I spend a lot of my time looking for references from the past to explain where a particular artist or track might have found...
Albums
Outlaw The Dead – E.G. Phillips (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Even if E.G. Phillips doesn’t necessarily sound like Tom Waits vocally – although he certainly comes from the same school of vocal training, that...
Videos
Video of the Day: Osiris at the Large Hadron Collider –...
Just those words all together in one place is enough to make you want to know more. Then they managed to squeeze the word...
Interviews
Sonic surf-spy adventures with Guitarmy of One
NYC artist Guitarmy of One (aka guitarist Scott Helland, has released his adventurous crowdfunded album The Wave Files mixing dark, ominous guitar riffing with...
Swindon
Making a Scene: A Spotlight on… The Lost Trades
I'll be the first to confess that I'm a bit of a music geek. Someone who, in more rarefied and, perhaps, better-paid circles, would...
News
Stars, first single/video release from new album, A Place To Go...
Ithaca, NY-based indiepop artist Rose Alaimo has released 'A Place To Go When You Need To Hide', her third full-length album. Honest, hopeful and...
Playlist
That Was The Musical Week That Was – 160523
As it has been so long since I was compiling playlists on a regular basis, I thought I should bang another in to gather...
Blog
Mentioned in Dispatches: You Keep Me On Track – Lemon
It is only natural for people like me, i.e. lazy journalists, to try to find reference points from the past to explain the slice...
6 of the best
Undone – Ryan Van Dordrecht (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Undone sees Ryan Van Dordrecht reconnecting with the sounds he grew up with. Although his previous musical vehicles, such as Americana popsters Sidestar and...
Mentioned in Dispatches: Blink Once and Miss the World Go By – Moon Landing
Well, if the likes of Duke Special says that Moon Landing is a band to be held in high regard, then who am I...
Falling Down – Suburban Spell (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
While there has been an 80s electronica revival going on for a while now, it has been tingled with the nostalgic sentimentality of a...
You Dance in the Club (Those Giants Remix) – Benedict Sinister (reviewed by Dave...
Benedict Sinister doesn't do anything by halves. I've only been acquainted with his sonic world for a short time, but even that is enough...
Mentioned in Dispatches: The Point – Friends With Boats
I love the self-deprecation that runs through Friends With Boat's descriptions of themselves. In a world of likes and followers, celebrity and self-adoration, they...
Behind Her Eyes – Indecent Proposal (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Of the two sonic encounters I have had with Indecent Proposal, the sunkissed alt-pop of Feeling Good and the more coiled and considered Late...
