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We’ve known Zach Schwartz (alias Zach Rogue) from Rogue Wave for a while now, ever since his failure in a grueling dot-com business venture landed him in the studio, cranking out the cloudy pop tunes that would become Rogue Wave’s first album, “Out Of The Shadow.”  Seven years later and after much praise and deals [...]

Good music is like buses: you go through a slow patch and then a whole bunch comes along all at once. Of course, unlike buses, you don’t have to pick and choose which bits to take, so who’s complaining? Recently-featured D33J turned me on to his old school-mate Hank May, who performs as Rock Dove. The [...]

You know those moments when you’ve been having a really bad day and nothing you seem to do makes it any better? Well I was having one of those moments tonight. Work was a total nightmare, the rain was pouring (again!), my bank card got stuck in the atm and when I got home the [...]

One of those magical times of your life is when you are no longer a teenager. The moment you open your eyes on the morning of your 20th birthday and realise that from this day forward you are officially classified as an “adult”. What did you do when that alarm clock went off? Did you [...]

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Somewhere between the quirky pop sensibility of Mull Historical Society and the actual insanity of The Fiery Furnaces‘ “Blueberry Boat” lies the work of Thorir Bogason, otherwise known as Just Another Snake Cult. I wasn’t aware that there were particularly many snake cults still around these days, but I’m delighted that there’s another one. Sometimes [...]

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All of the songs listed below were personally chosen by the artist or blogger above. I got in touch with a lot of artists and bloggers who were all kind enough to get back to me and take part in Desert Island Discs. If you’re unaware of the concept behind Desert Island Discs, check out the basic [...]

Remember when Animal Collective was shiny and new? Remember how you felt… confused, intrigued, but ultimately starving for more? This is the kind of tingly feeling I got when I listened to Old Arc. Old Arc is Austin Lee and Stefan Lazer of Santa Cruz, California. These guys are a duo of another world; trip-inspired, [...]

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The deep synth beginnings only hints at the amount of sensuality emitted from this limited edition EP. It contains different approaches to the same goal with equal amounts of honesty. “Black Hills” conveys this as a folky synthpop piece with the pulsing keyboards awash with falsetto vocals that doesn’t abandon it’s relaxed California influence. In [...]

Usually what happens late at night is that Avi Buffalo, after they park their magic carpet and slide down the dinosaur back and tail into their living room, get online and upload random pieces of music and noises and whatever the fuck else they can think of to their Soundcloud account. Thankfully though they actually [...]