After being talent-spotted in a club night featuring jazz-playing badgers, psychics and burlesque puppeteers, Glaswegian electro pop five piece A Band Called Quinn (fronted by singer/songwriter Louise Quinn) toured Britain last year with award winning theatre company Vanishing Point in a futuristic update of John Gay’s 18th Century classic The Beggar’s Opera. The show was [...]

STRAIGHT LINES are now ready to hit the road again with the third single to be lifted from their debut album ‘Persistence In This Game’.

A very creative and an emotionally driven piece of art that will make you re-think and assess what can be achieved musically.

Despite the rain and mud, were roaming performance artists and musicians, art installations and food in plentiful supply.

An overwhelming need to be a bit quirky and focus on mythical worlds rather than the music.

No two songs on this album sound the same, each has its own meaning and feeling.

Clashes and bangs triumphantly to a wonderful peak and eventually crushes itself to a close with a satisfied clatter.

If you can look past the dodgy intro, or just particularly like carnivals, then you won’t be disappointed by ‘Sleepless’.

For me, this band’s name instantly conjures up images of a group of American children’s entertainers, about to burst into some stupid yet slightly educational song about how to make friends. All these images were then permanently erased from my head as soon as I hit the play button and Misery Guts began to play. Starting with [...]

GIMME SOME MORE OF THOSE YUMMY MARMALAKES!

Dig your spurs in and hold on, Hold Your Horse Is buck and thrust like a pissed-off cow someone just tried to saddle up.

All The Pieces seems to be a personality that has been unearthed with a focus on the raw edginess of folk music and a spotlight on vocals, as well as rattles and claps. The artist is telling a story throughout the album; it starts enthusiastically with a punch and ends on a calm. Presented chronologically [...]

Are you a fan of mixing it up a bit? Well six piece electro group “Grinny Grandad” with their mix of soul, funk, and dance are just what you need my friend. Not only are the band totally original (and it’s not often one can say that), they also have this amazingly retro edge. Their [...]

Thee Single Spy’s new single OK Corral is now out on Robot Elephant Records and its clear from the start that this new indie pop band have something special. Thanks to their Beirut-style use of instruments, textured guitar lines and Alex Mattinson’s haunting vocals they muster up an epic cinematic brand of indie pop. Indeed, [...]

Indie is very often about looking back to move forward; Elephant Stone are very much a part of this retro-pop tradition.

It’s a rather beautiful slice of americana-informed folk, with haunting, sweet melodies and husky understated vocals.

“Clockworks” builds nicely from sparse beginnings to a guitar-driven climax with synth flourishes, and will be an ideal soundtrack to an emotional montage on a new episode of Smallville.

Picture a French Kasabian jamming with a funked-up Muse, whilst a stoned Oasis sit in the corner talking aloud. That’s Turzi.