Listen Before You Buy

With a range of influences from The Beatles to Radiohead, Emma Grace are the kind of pair us non-musical types look at in envy as they both play multiple instruments and sing. Oh, and create great indie songs like “Stuck In The Air”.

Footage of David Bowie performing on Top of The Pops in 1973 has been unearthed, after going unseen for 38 years!

With a pop hook and lilting crescendo lurking around every corner, Sparkadia offers a mixed bag of surprises in the guise of gorgeously executed, dreamy power pop.

TweetShareWatch The Horrors cover David Bowie‘s classic song “Suffragette City” below. The Horrors‘ new album “Skying” is out now.

TweetShare When I contacted Canopies about featuring them on this site I asked them for what they might consider some of their influences; they divided these into two groups: musical and non-musical. The former showed a musically well-versed and (culturally) diverse band with the likes of Brian Eno, the Davids (Bowie and Byrne), Yellow Magic [...]

TweetShare Hot damn, I am getting ever more convinced by Lightouts. Their latest effort, “The Eloise Suite”, started life titled “Dit-Dat”. Why the change of name? Well, that would be thanks to Charlie Sheen’s epic disintegration in the similarly-named suite at The Plaza, NY. There’s only one word for that. Don’t make me say it. [...]

TweetShare I don’t think the music business is quite as glamorous as most of us think really. Sure we’re used to the big houses and fancy recording studios that we see in the movies but for most bands the reality is a little more low key and closer to home. Sometimes it is home, as [...]

TweetShare “Is David Bowie Dying?” Sure, he is steadily marching toward the grim reaper, as are we all, but we have no reason to believe that Bowie is heading toward the light any time soon. If anyone is tapped into some great cosmic power that might reveal Bowie’s demise, though, it would certainly be Wayne [...]

TweetShare Smith Westerns, what with your hairy and grizzled version of modern Glam-Rock, what are we supposed to do with you? Just eat you up in copious amounts until we’re throwing up guns and paint and glitter and bits of wood?  Damn right!  If their debut self-titled album came out in 2010 it would’ve been [...]

TweetShare So, cover songs? It’s almost a taboo term in the music blogosphere. It almost goes without saying that everyone who makes a post about them has to start with ‘I’m not usually a fan of covers but…”.  I don’t see the big problem; I’m a massive fan of remixes and covers. I know the [...]

TweetShare 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 [...]

TweetShare If you’re unaware of the concept behind Desert Island Discs, check out the basic pitch I gave the artists and bloggers I got in touch with.  If you’re an artist or blogger and want to take part,  just send your submission with the eight pieces of music (not the actual mp3s) and some words [...]

TweetShare If you’re unaware of what Music Monday is, it’s a Twitter recommendation system where users of Twitter share their favourite music, artists, genres, etc in order to not only find new music themselves but help others find new music too.  Using the hashtag (#) followed by “MusicMonday” you can easily find new music posted [...]

TweetShare If you’re unaware of what Music Monday is, it’s a Twitter recommendation system where users of Twitter share their favourite music, artists, genres, etc in order to not only find new music themselves but help others find new music too.  Using the hashtag (#) followed by “MusicMonday” you can easily find new music posted [...]

TweetShare “Hunky Dory” is the fourth album from Bowie, but the first that was released under RCA records which he stuck with for over a decade. Bowie arrived at the cover shoot for the album with photographs of Marlene Dietrich who was a perfect metaphor for the music the album presented. It was a perfect [...]

TweetShare If you’re unaware of what Music Monday is, it’s a Twitter recommendation system where users of Twitter share their favourite music, artists, genres, etc in order to not only find new music themselves but help others find new music too.  Using the hashtag (#) followed by “MusicMonday” you can easily find new music posted [...]