Enough to make grown men cry, Watford's Stavely-Taylors are three English roses; fair skinned, long flowing hair and, above all, beautiful voices. It's a lethal combo, certainly for those who don't need much in the way of grunge in their lives, and not surprisingly they have resonated with music lovers,…
This tall 32 year old from Virginia, USA looks like he should be chopping wood rather than playing rock music. His long brown locks and bushy beard should not fool you, as in reality he is a musical maverick. Matthew is the founder of Spacebomb Records, a label and…
I first saw Ghostpoet (aka Obaro Ejimiwe) playing on the 2011 Mercury Prize awards show, doing a tremendous version of his debut single ‘Cash & Carry Me Home’. Unfortunately for him 2011 was an exceptionally strong year for albums, losing out to Let England Shake by PJ Harvey, but it…
The audience got in early to make sure they had a good spot to see Krill in a room that was fuller than when the headline act was on stage. The Boston three piece have embarked on their first tour outside North America serving up a raw batch of surf-like…
House and dance music has been bedevilled by an extraordinary amount of blandness, mediocrity and unmusicality since it reared it's otherworldly head in the machine-obsessed 80s. Only a handful of acts have stood the test of time, mainly those who could combine a purposeful musicality with a higher grasp…
“We meet in an hour of change and challenge, in a decade of hope and fear, in an age of both knowledge and ignorance,” famously spoke John F Kennedy in 1962. “We choose to go to the moon!” And so have, in a manner of speaking, Public Service Broadcasting, the…
Released just 364 days after their debut album, the brothers Champion have a new album, looking to accelerate the matter in hand (ie, get themselves out there as much as possible), and capitalise on the current zeitgeist for harmony singing a la Fleet Foxes and The Staves, just two acts…
I arrived at Sticky Mike's in time to catch the last two songs of local support Of Empires. It was the first time I'd caught the band live but it wasn't really much to go on, their spirited performance didn't seem to get much response from a small, pretty lacklustre…
The Sundowners have had an excellent start in the last 12 months, from touring with the likes of Kasabian and Cats Eyes to festival appearances at Glastonbury and All Tomorrow's Parties, the band have clearly gone the right way about things for the sort of record they wanted to…
The extraordinary rise of The Unthanks could not have been easily predicted. Now known for their amalgamation of traditional folk music with a contemporary sound, the sisters Rachel and Becky (who originally went out under the name Rachel Unthank and the Winterset) were at the outset an almost purely…