Rating: With a story telling genre such as folk, it was easy for Teddy Thompson and his clan to express their trials and tribulations in collaborative album ‘Family’. Once a legendary duo his parents, Richard and Linda drifted away to…
New Londoner on the scene, Jack Garratt, is here to sweep you off your feet. Although compared to the likes of James Blake and Damien Rice, it is clear upon first listen that Garratt is incomparable: oozing a completely unique…
Today’s track of the day comes from London based indie-soul outfit ‘New Street Adventure’. Be Somebody is the second single from debut album ‘No Hard Feelings’. The band have had repeated support from on this one from BBC Radio 2,…
With suicide being one of the biggest killers of males under fifty; game-changing charity CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) are doing their part to raise awareness of the severity of mental disorders and trying to reduce this tragically high rate….
Lets fire up our musical DeLorean Time Machine and go back a little. To a time before The Shins’ ‘Oh, Inverted World’ landed and its glistening opening salvo ‘Caring Is Creepy’ established them as the indie darlings they are today;…
Rating: The Drums are back – after a 3 year wait since their slightly disappointing second record ‘Portamento’, they return with ‘Encyclopedia’ – an album that ditches the surf rock and happy go lucky melodies for damp and dark textures,…
Rating: “Why procrastinate girl?” Azealia Banks asked herself in her debut single ‘212’ and 3 years later we’re still asking the same question. You can’t forget it wasn’t all down to her, with her label pushing the release back from…
Andy Premieres video for new single ‘See A Girl’ via XFM, out 24th November. Watch it here, taken from his new album, Fall Together Again. In separate Andy Burrows news, Burrows and Ilan Eshkeri’s BAFTA-nominated soundtrack to The Snowman And…
Rating: As the imposing silhouette of Mr Jon Boden appears on stage against a dark backdrop, cheers and woops fill Shepherd’s Bush Empire: the curtains lift, the unmistakable figure of Boden appears – donning a typically glitzy hot pink suit…
After a year which has already included a closing night headline set at Glastonbury’s BBC Introducing Stage; further major festivals including Reading, Leeds, Download and Radio 1 Rocks; plus the critically-acclaimed release of their debut album ‘The Weird AndWonderful Marmozets’,…