Loop pedals always blow my tiny mind. Here is Nathan Holme doing nice things with loop pedals. Nathan is currently touring with my fave, Lucy Rose and is on the London based Indie label, Tape Club Re...
Two Gallants are one of those bands that are so good, I don’t know how they aren’t huge. Their performance is intense and every song is a treat. They are currently on tour with Mariachi E...
One of our absolute favorite bands, Kitten, is back. They’ve got an EP coming out August 28th (Cut It Out), BUT as you may have guessed from the title of this post, you can get two songs from i...
Literally minutes after this song was released I sent it to Melanie with an “OMG LISTEN!!!!!!!!” because I knew she’d love it. It’s a damn good song- punky and obscure with a ...
This is my US music post from The Great Escape, following from my very oh so British Jethro Fox & Lucy Rose post. These bands are from opposite coasts but were two I was very much excited to get ...
“The Beers” is both Melanie and Ben’s second favorite track out of all The Front Bottoms’ songs, so we’re really excited to present part two of the session that Ben film...
Mariachi El Bronx – 48 Roses I saw Mariachi El Bronx last week and had been going through a phase with this song anyway. “48 Roses” led the set and it’s still on regular rotat...
Mariachi El Bronx is a bit of a split personality from punkers The Bronx, namely taking on a mariachi theme. Maybe I hang in the wrong circles, but I don’t know of anything like this happening ...
Music and literature have a shared history. There is a long list of celebrated writers who were also talented musicians, which Rick Moody finds unsurprising. When it comes to writing, Moody, who has ...
“I have a confession to make: I messed up your burrito.” Brian Sella of The Front Bottoms is apologising to me about mistaken Mexican food, while we clean up the show, in the art gallery,...
The Great Escape is truly that – Brighton is the backdrop for an always amazing festival; the line up beating any other city festival of similar accolade and I’m starting 2012′s Gre...
Here’s The Menzingers‘ video for their track “Nice Things” from their very fucking awesome album, On The Impossible Past. “Nice Things” is one of my favorite track...
Langhorne Slim is one of my favorite people ever. I assume he is also one of yours. If not, he should be. Anyway, here is the first single from his new album is here. And it’s great. I really c...
Snow Patrol holds a special place in my heart. A couple years ago I had the good fortune of seeing them play a show at The Gothic that was one of the best times I’ve ever had at a gig. I’...
This is one of those songs that is quite possibly perfect. Fort Frances pay lovely tribute to the track here. It’s a simple kind of gorgeous. Fort Frances – The Only Living Boy In New York
I fell in love with this song from The Switchboard Sessions last summer and have listened to it a good deal of times since, sometimes on repeat. I became so attached to this version that I initially ...
Naughty. But adorably cute and catchy, is the new video for Peter & Kerry’s song, Fucking Around’. A lot more upbeat than my fave tune by the duo (‘Knees’), ‘Fucking...
I was on my way to see Punch Brothers at Town Hall in Manhattan and was not off to a good start. It was 8 o’clock and I was just getting off work. But first, I had to catch my bus. “No pr...
I had the pleasure of seeing Regina Spektor supporting Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers last week in Denver and this song has been on my mind ever since. I know it comes out of my mouth every other da...
This track very possibly could have passed me by if not for the incomparable Ben Morse who recommended this song with an emphatic “love”. This project was put together by Esquire, with th...
James was a gift of a band, offered up to me by dear friends over a hot 4th of July in 2004. They had everything I was looking for: passion, talent, great melodies, great lyrics, a violinist who coul...
This record was released a week ago, but I needed some more time with it before writing a review. Jim Lockey and the Solemn Sun’s Death was my most anticipated album of 2012. I probably had plays in ...
Franz Nicolay’s voice cuts right through me- there’s something about the tone that gives me chills. In the best way possible. From the “whoahs and ohhhs” in Stay Positive to the bravado of his solo w...
Our friend Roger Harvey has an incredibly beautiful voice. It’s so lovely to hear him accompanied by the relative hush of just one perfect instrument, which is one of the things that makes his ...
The Great Escape is shaping up to be as ever, a bloody exciting Festival this year, and I will admit to being a tad biased as it solidifies itself in my books as ‘Festival of the year’. F...
Our buddies (and all around talented dudes) You Blew It! recorded their track “Sneaky Fuckin’ Russian” (from their 2012 EP The Past In Present) for Ryan Russel’s Nervous Energ...
Going to this show was a given because my favorite band Fake Problems was on the bill. I’d heard a lot of great things about The Front Bottoms and as the show got closer, seeing them became nec...
James are a relic from the era when a band’s name didn’t need to be searchable on the internet. Sure, they’re currently at the top of a Google search for “James”, but ba...
If you’ve been reading this blog since our inception a couple moons (or years ago) you’ll know we were fans of, or I should say friends of the North London, Camden based, Ou Est le Swimmi...
There has been a marked absence of folky goodness around here lately, but I’m happy to announce an end to that dry spell with a rather auspicious introduction to the cleverly named Marthas ...
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