There’s a style of minimalist pop music that’s singed at it’s edges with hip hop or rnb, of a kind that can be found successfully being paraded by the British artists, Jai Paul or J...
This is why we love The Great Escape Festival. This is also why bands are wise to play at the three day event. Ultimately the weekend is a showcase for emerging bands and finds such as the one we pro...
Some genres suffer from a lot of cliches. OK, so all genres do to some extent, but some suffer that bit more, like they have a black hole of cliches sucking infinitely upon them. It doesn’t sto...
And so concludes The Great Escape Festival, which always turns into the biggest weekend of our calendar year. It’s been four days since the event finished, yet our hangovers have barely receded...
As you can see on our About section, we pride ourselves on throwing at least one mean party every year at The Great Escape Festival. As we build up to what will be our third consecutive year in a row...
The Great Escape festival is an absolutely massive weekend, the biggest of the year for our music blog by a some stretch. Not only do we have The Recommender’s own official showcase at The Gree...
If ever there was a music festival designed for a music blog like ours it would be this one…OK, so perhaps SXSW too, but this one is literally outside our house. Absolutely zero connecting flig...
How do you stand out in an over-saturated market? The Recommender is a music blog seemingly among billions of others out there. What makes our music blog so different? What makes you return to our pa...
Aesthetics are important, right? It’s a topic that we want to discuss a little bit today, as it’s a theme that runs not only through our selection, but through the source in which we foun...
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. Once a month Tony ge...
Regular readers of The Recommender will know that we do our best to try and provide at least some meandering editorial, so our visitors have the opportunity to obtain a bit of context, opinion and so...
Pop is an all-encompassing genre of music, with a massive scale upon which new artists can wander. It has a spectrum so broad you can find something as credible as Madonna, Abba, Michael Jackson or P...
Where to start? Here’s another group hiding their identities from view. It’s an old trick that doesn’t really hold much suspense, following in the footsteps of so many other artists...
The irritating thing about most garage rock bands is that they fry the life out of their guitars and vocals because, well, they can’t sing or play the guitar very well, so it disguises their la...
Check the Wikipedia entry for the genre of progressive rock music and it quotes John Covach who explained it as an “attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility“. T...
Get ready to emerge. Emerge when you’re ready. That’s a good lesson for any new bands that are setting out. Like most other music blogs out there on the highways, we operate in the world ...
European artists that choose to sing in English, snubbing their native language, can sometimes seem something of a confused choice on occasion. Although that’s not always the impression, as we ...
Today’s recommendation is inadvertently poignant. The band have no idea that it’s poignant, but it is. Just yesterday a debate raged online, particularly on Twitter, among music bloggers ...
Usually a biography that contains stories of an artist’s Romany Gypsy influences and a love of ghost stories would have us running to the horizon. However, there’s something this artist h...
The Recommender has been seen DJ’ing late night sets at a variety of bars and venues around their local city of Brighton over recent months. Our aims have always been simple; to try and deliver...
We get a lot of requests from artists, PR, managers and labels asking us to post music from bands that have already released several albums. We tend to turn them down, as this blog and the service it...
Last month, the BBC 6 Music radio station had their inaugural Blog Awards, in which they asked a selection of UK blogs and music sites to select the award’s categories. The Recommender was one ...
With the agreeable and temperate weather, that both the north and south of the UK has been enjoying this week, we have something of a perfect selection for you, with today’s band proving your i...
Some record labels just nail it every single time. It’s obviously rare, because scouting for the very best new music is one thing, but then actually signing them can require further fortune, as...
On our travels we often find ourselves deep in conversations with new bands that are asking us how they should go about launching themselves into the limelight. Some of them have been floating around...
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. We first appeared on...
When creating music, it’s well known that a good collaboration can often do wonders for an artist’s output, development and recognition. We recently discussed collaborations on our post a...
We write from our hearts, which happens to be something that we strongly demand from any bands that are covered on these blog pages. There are few rules to earn your place on The Recommender, except ...
In recent posts we’ve discussed music as an art form and how some people allow that idea to lead to unrestricted creativity. That artistry is a common shared element found with the people that ...
Did somebody state that guitar bands were dead? The indie vs pop debate raged around over the last three or four years as guitar-based music became massively out-sold by the more electronic trend of ...
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