Like every other blogger we get plenty of emails. Well, when we say plenty, we figured out we get one every 11 minutes, all day, every day. It’s somewhat boring to go on about it, but our point...
You could learn to play the piano, we could learn to play the piano, we could all be pianists if we really, really wanted to. If any of us spent a few months or years having drumming lessons then we ...
Ahh, good old computers. Aren’t they just great? These days it’s so much easier to get to stage one of your career as an ambitious musician by tip-tapping away at your desk. Do-it-yoursel...
The blog world is one of the noisiest environments you can imagine. With everyone shouting all at once, it’s like trying to get noticed across the room in an Ibizan super club – no easy t...
Does the actual language that a song is sung in actually matter when assessing whether you like a piece of music or not? How would Bob Dylan seem if you didn’t speak English and couldn’t ...
Perhaps we should start by discussing a few time-honoured cliches, such as “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks“, or “if at first you don’t succeed“, or “a...
Usually when an artist describes themselves as “ambient shoegaze” it would act more like a repellent for this blog, causing us to quickly immerse ourselves in something ass-kickingly rock...
When you’re discovering new music is there one over-riding element that makes you fall in love with it? Is it the melody? Is it the style? Is it the beat? Is it the vocals? Does it have to make...
Only last week we were ranting on about a northern band, called Citi Petts, that in parts reminded us of The Gossip, with oversized guitar riffs and lots of punched-with-a-run-up beats. Today we are ...
A recent brief debate cropped up in a comment thread on our recent post about the band IO. You can see that post here and all it’s reader’s musings, but the main complaint was the lack of...
Just like Lawrence Tierney’s character, Joe Cabot, in the final scene in Reservoir Dogs, we have a niggling fear of regret that could kick in as soon as we upload this post. Once that ‘pu...
We cannot for the life of us recall who it was that tipped us off in a past conversation about the band Money. It was some time last year. We were managing a gig involving the band Binary and discuss...
As soon as this post is complete and we’ve uploaded it online we’re off to flagellate ourselves repeatedly in the hope of some atonement. We’re supposed to be recommending emerging,...
When you’re hunting around the edges for very new music you come across a lot of utter crap. That’s the price we pay for setting ourselves up as your filtering service. Please don’t...
In a week where every other blog seems to have posted the latest leaked tracks by Lana Del Rey and/or Grimes, it seems like 2012 is already stepping up the pace of unoriginal blog posts. We enjoy bot...
So here we go once again with another year, as we deliver to your patient ears the first full Recommender-ed artist of 2012. It’s a fantastic way to kick off what we hope will be another year o...
In tandem with the BBC Sound Of 2012 poll, a collection of music bloggers decided to get together to try and design our own list of exciting artists that we thought could break through over the next ...
As you can see from our 2010 review, (found here), we love an end of year wrap up, so we can reflect on what The Recommender’s achieved over the last twelve months, hopefully giving you a littl...
You come to The Recommender to hunt out new music. Well, today’s gigantic post has our Top 40 Tracks Of 2011, so your hunting won’t get any easier than this. Think you’ve heard them...
Tony Marks hosts his New Music Show on Juice Radio, the largest independent station in our home city of Brighton, where he delivers contemporary releases on four shows each week. From January of this...
THE WEEKND – HOUSE OF BALLOONS You don’t visit this blog for it’s R&B expertise. However, you don’t need to be an expert to realise that this artist is making something ...
We are about to embark on The Recommender’s end of year lists. We plan our usual ‘Top 40 Tracks Of 2011′, as well as our ‘Best Albums Of 2011′ and our usual end-of-year ...
Most folks know that we are a blog based in the coastal city of Brighton, UK. We’re proud to be associated with this city and even more so when it produces new bands as good as this local five-...
Right at the close of the year we come across one of the tidiest finds of 2011. We have fallen completely head over heels in love with this new band and predict that once you too have hit play on the...
We’re breaking with an un-written tradition on this post. Regular readers will know that this music blog is all about uncovering new music. Essentially it’s about discovery. It’s ab...
This time of year is a great time to catch up on those artists that we’ve never quite found the time to cover. We can make some headway into the thousands of unread emails and it’s a good...
What is that? Is it a play on the name of that mountain range in Switzerland? Is it literally something to do with the anatomy of Swiss people? Is it a new euphemism from those pesky teenagers that w...
People often ask us, “what sort of music does The Recommender cover?“. Well, we follow our taste. That doesn’t really answer the question, but in all honesty, we hop from genre to g...
Unless you’re getting excited about the X-Factor winner’s inevitable Christmas release, or happy to step on the band-wagoning, anti-Cowell, counter-single, usually of something equally as...
The BBC Sound Of 2012 poll has been described as “the definitive annual list of exciting new artists to watch out for“. It’s a poll that The Recommender has proudly been asked to vo...
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