Tipped by various scenesters to be rather doing well in 2010, Hereford's Ellie Goulding has taken the blogging world by storm in recent weeks with her latest track "Under The Sheets". Whilst the original version is pretty cool, it's the various remixes which have propelled the young starlet onto the radar of many of the top blogs and critic types around the world. Her voice is incredibly infect...
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Every now and then you come across an artist who makes you stop what you're doing and really take notice, today that is Fiona Bevan. Based in Suffolk in the UK, Fiona is a singer songwriter who has recently released her debut album "Plant Your Heart", which according to her blurb is lyrically about "the dark corners of love, with a cast of stumbling party-girls, fickle sailors and forlorn lover...
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A London based band that doesn't try to sound like the Klaxons or The Libertines is welcome enough but big smoke dwelling The High Wire are a breath of fresh air. Their echoy, layered music is as unique as it is sentimental.Whilst the band ooze with 80s shoegaze influences 'Leave Me In Love' is more of a twee affair, driven by seasidey synth whilst male-female vocals serve the listener a hefty...
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Out next week through Artjam Records is "German Heart" the first single to be taken from Dead Kids debut album "Dark Party". It's a beautifully crafted pop song that oozes attitude and funk, but with definite dark undertones. Comparisons can definitely be drawn with French synth pop group The Teenagers. Ahead of the singles release on the 23rd November check out this wicked remix from Invasion,...
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Based out of Toronto, Canada comes Digits, an electronic indie pop guru whose actual name is Alt Altman. During the Summer of this year, Digits recorded and produced his debut album titled "Hold It Close", which is available both digitally, physically, and streamably through his website.Digits music is a throwback to the electronic heydays of the 80's, but with a significant 2009 indie update. ...
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This rock and stroll mini album by Chicago based The Yearbooks is reminiscent of the schmindie Brit pop brigade that infected the UK charts over a decade ago. Think The Boo Radleys or Teenage Fanclub. With passive vocals, plodding melodies and flaccid Stroke’s guitar lines ‘Have a Great Summer’ is a wishy-washy affair comprising of six melancholic pop numbers.Too inconspicuous to anything ot
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Out this week through Moda Music, "Lies" is the new single from UK band Fenech Soler. It's a wicked tune that effortlessly fuses electro with funky indie pop vibes. They have already enjoyed major support from BBC Radio 1, with the likes of Zane Lowe, Annie Mac, and somebody called Jo Wiley giving Lies a regular spin. As well as national press coverage the band have been delighting crowds up an...
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I've had a busy couple of weeks and so therefore the emails and music have been piling up. So to stop these awesome tunes from disappearing into my itunes library abyss, here's a monster post! You'll have to do your own research this time round, normal service will resume shortly :o) Enjoy!The Subs - Mitsubitchi (Link removed by request)/ The SubsMP3 : Crookers feat Wiley - Business Man (Black ...
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Crisscrossing the nation from A to Z, evergreen rock stars ASH promote their mould breaking A-Z Singles Collection with a 26-date UK tour. Visiting some of the country’s live music back waters…Working alphabetically through the towns and cities of the British Isles from Aldershot to Zennor, Ash will be dropping in on the UK’s lesser-visited concert venues. Exotic locations like Ventnor (tha
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Little known The Pony Collaboration release their second album this November and at the moment, I feel like it’s a little gem that only I know about and I don’t want to share. It’s fantastic; a cosy security blanket of melancholic and understated pop that has a charm all of its own.With the emotive depth of Tindersticks, the poppy sentiment of Camera Obscura and the modesty of Pavement, ‘I
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To celebrate Gallows taking over the Topman myspace page, we are giving away an exclusive tshirt designed by Lags from the band. Only 50 of these super cool tshirts have been made so this is pretty specialas we have 1 to give away.For those who don't know CTRL is a new venture whereby a different band each month takes over the Topman myspace, having license to do pretty much whatever they like ...
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Photomachine is back with a new track "Burn Up", which takes up where his previous material left off with bouncy, jerky, synths intertwined with a standard slow house beat. There is a clear rhythm to this track, with clear nods to artists such as Basement Jaxx and Buraka Som Siesta when it comes to beat making at slightly slower beats per minute. There are lots of weird samples thrown in for go...
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Seeing these guys next week at the Meze Festival in Newport, super excited!! "Lies" will be released November 2nd through Moda Music.
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Noisy, shoegaze garage rock is on offer here from Minnesota guitar-janglers Gospel Gossip. The excellently titled single ‘Sippy Cup’ bursts in with fuzzy guitars, wailing feedback and propulsive drums. The whole tune has a warm drunken slur to it and an emotional weight to boot. Mumbling vocalist Sarah Nienaber delivers a fantastic performance where you can identify with her struggles and hear
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If you live anywhere near Newport in South Wales, then please check out and support the excellent Meze Festival. I'll be doing a review of the festival at the end of the month!Here's the blurb - "100+ Bands & DJ’s, 2 venues, 1 whole month (and we don’t like Mondays)Newport’s Meze Lounge & The Joy Collective are proud to announce the inaugural Meze : Festival, a month-long celebration of new
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Stagecoach are a UK based indie pop act from the Surrey area, who are currently on a UK tour, and have an EP available titled "We Got Tazers!". Pop music for me is all about the melodies, you can have rock music or dance music behind it, but if the vocals are uplifting and there is a high percentage of rhyming lyrics, then i'd call Pop. Stagecoach have their feet in the rock camp, with Weezer b...
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It is quite remarkable that Los Angeles rockers Red Cortez are unsigned, in fact it makes me want to start a record label and sign them up, I think they are really that good. The band are currently supporting The Airborne Toxic Event on their US tour, so if they don't get signed from that things are seriously wrong. They have a digital EP currently available titled "Hands To The Wall", which sh...
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Everything Everything are one of those bands that emerge out of nowhere and take centre stage across the board without you realising it. The true test of course is whether they can remain around long enough for people to take major notice. "My Keys, Your Boyfriend" their latest single has been remixed here by Portmanteau into a floaty piece of electronica that takes your mind away. MP3: Everyth...
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Any band calling themselves Turbowolf have a lot to live up to - it’s certainly a name that pulls no punches. Much like say, Raging Speedhorn, it’s the kind of moniker that pigeonholes a group before they’ve even picked up an instrument.Yet by some lucky coincidences, it turns out that Bristol based Turbowolf are indeed exactly what you might suspect: an unremitting sonic onslaught of elect
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Folk music can go one of two ways with me. I either find it totally self indulgent and inanely boring, or it can be something which makes me sit up, take notice, and bust out that dusty guitar in the corner of my room. Thankfully for Shambles Miller, and my ears, his music falls into the latter category.Shambles Miller (aka Campbell Miller) who describes himself as a "folky music shambler man f...
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