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New Track: PURS – ‘Tame’

English summers are a bittersweet experience – they’re warm and bright – but they’re brief, and often overshadowed by heavy showers. Fortunately, PURS have arrived just in time to ‘Tame’ our summery tempests with their pensive, powerful shoegaze sound. The…

Discovery of the Week: King No-One

York based indie-rockers King No-One are back with a bang with new single ‘Stay Close’. A great track record so far sees previous singles hyped by Huw Stephens and others at 6 Music and Radio X. The five piece have been…

Video Premiere: Scarlette – ‘Helena’

A Special Educational Needs teacher by day, Mari Scarlette is a Radio 2 playlisted singer-songwriter whose last album received plenty of acclaim with innovative singles such as ‘Crash And Burn’ and ‘Elated’. Also selling out venues like The Borderline and…

Discovery Of The Week: PLAZA

Genre is often hard to define these days, but Hartlepool newcomers PLAZA have pinned themselves and debut single ‘Totem’ as “post-indie”. I like it, for many the term ‘indie’ is now synonymous with generic guitar music, hipsters and dickheads on…

Introducing Interview: The Bar Dogs

Formed in late 2015, The Bar Dogs are already getting tongues wagging in their native Glasgow, drawing comparisons to Springsteen and The E Street Band amongst others. I caught The Bar Dogs live in December at Glasgow’s O2 Academy when they…

Interview: Horse Party

Bury St Edmunds trio, Horse Party – aka Ellie Langley, Seymour Quigley and Shannon Hope – have been gracing our ears for a while now, with fantastic offerings such as last year’s EPs Paydirt and Money Talks. Having received acclaim…

Introducing Interview: Lowla

Channeling the likes of Grimes and Sky Ferreira, new alt-pop duo Lowla create twinkling, impassioned offerings that are just as good to dance to as get immersed in their emotive content. Debut single ‘Reckless’ celebrates the moment you realise you’re…

New Track: Cortes – ‘Close to Nowhere’

Recently championed by Annie Mac on BBC Radio 1 with single ‘Close to Nowhere’ receiving airtime, three piece Cortes serve as an excellent example of the good that can come from paying one’s dues on London’s sweaty circuit of intimate…

Premiere: ISLES – ‘Bury Me’

Consisting of Goldsmiths students Amber, Luke, Miles and Oliver, ISLES draw influences from the likes of the almighty Orange Juice and REM, creating their own twinkling, melancholic pop. New track ‘Bury Me’ is taken from their double A-side ‘Bury Me’/’The First…