Michael Kiwanuka
On Wednesday evening I made it to Rough Trade from work just in time to catch the last 3 tracks of Michael Kiwanuka. He’s a young guy with a soulful voice and beautifully written songs. His first album’s just came out from what I understand and he is definitely one to watch. Below is one...
Oh No Ono – Swim
This is one of those rare occasions, when a band and director make a music video, that should really be called a short film. I won’t say too much about either the song or the video, you just have to watch for yourself. What i will say is Adam Hashemi, has some other really clever...
Beach Fossils
Beach Fossils are a young band from Brooklyn that could easily accompany your summer. Catchy songs made up of fairly simple but great repetitive guitar parts and lyrics as cheerful twangs of another guitar separate sections of the songs. They love their reverb too, like everybody should. ‘Sometimes’ is a great track. Worth looking at...
Chad Valley
I remember reading somewhere that at one point last year, apparently Chad Valley was one of the most ‘blogged about’ artists – In that case featuring his songs here won’t make too much difference.. Hugo Manuel (of oxford-based band Jonquil) released an four-track beat-based “Chillwave” EP last November. It’s pretty good, you should go and...
WU LYF
WU LYF are a Manchester based band who spent the last couple of years playing tiny unknown gigs and for a long time the only image of them was on a rooftop with bandannas around their faces and smoke everywhere. Well now they’ve decided to let people watch them and started to tour around. I...
Protex
Protex were a Pub Rock band that came out of Belfast in 1978. Their debut long player “Strange Obsessions”, produced by one of the dudes from Slade (!) was rejected by their label, Polydor, and never saw a formal release. Lucky then, that it can be found on the “WWW.” because it is something else....
Shlohmo – Places (Video)
Taken from the EP “Places” Shlohmo released on March 15th, the title track is without doubt my favourite on the new release. The EP has really got me looking forward to the forthcoming LP, “Bad Vibes”, coming in June.
