By no means planned, here is my second Americana post of the week. Maybe it’s my own personal way of trying to stave off the apparent brit-pop revival that’s around the corner. Please, don’t let it happen. With a slightly more conservative approach compared to Jessica Lea Mayefield, my last country adventure – Chicago born...
Holeytonal favourite Entrepreneurs has just posted on his facebook page a new remix of Supersymmetry by brooklyn based psychedelic seamstress Larual Halo at your. I’ve completely fallen for Entrepreneus’ quirky pop beats – I just wish he’d get his hands on Britney and make that god awful Hold It Against Me something even close to listenable....
Time for some shameless self-promotion. Well sort of. I play cello in a folk/pop group called Silvermoths. I’ve been making music with lead singer and co-writer Emma Churchley along with guitarist Kaziu Gill for around 5 years now – and it just keeps getting better. Silvermoths started around a year ago, with my colleague Kate...
Jessica Lea Mayfield, a 21-year-old singer-songwriter, is forcing me to appreciate country music. Probably in the same way Sheryl Crow did, even Jessica's nonchalant vocal delivery remind me of the queen of alt-country-rock.
With 2011 just round the corner I’m sure many of you are desperately looking for the next best tunes for your playlist at tonight’s party. I’ve decided to be nice and am going to help you bring in the new year in style with this amazing track by French electro outfit Discodeine who I have written about...
Disco should be a part of every human upbringing, solid old school disco. Funky beats and slick strings have been hidden from our youth for too long. Fear not, Escort are about to change that. Although parents may not want kids shuffling along to songs about narcotics – no wait – hip-hop already teaches how...
It’s Halloween this weekend and I used to find drag queens scary. However times have changed and I’ve been reminded how fabulous they can be thanks to one of my favourite films Kinky Boots. Not only does Chiwetel Ejiofor play Lola superbly, he also sings on every track she performs. All Lola’s songs were produced by Robbie...
Burial‘s amazing album Untrue from 2007 is one of my favourites, so when I heard the teaser of Jamie Woon‘s new song Night Air on singles club of the Guardian Music Weekly Podcast I began to salivate for more. Londoner Jamie Woon shows considerable talent on his first EP Wayfaring Stranger, he is a great...
I’m nearly 10 years too late to be excited about Dusty Brown, but I won’t let that stop me. Dusty Brown are a Sacramento based family trio made up of Zac, Jessica and of course Dusty Brown himself. Their live shows, begun some 10 years ago, have already brought them local music awards in Sacramento. I’m sure their electro folk...
Soon I’ll find time to write an article about how to discover new music, and one new tool that’ll be mentioned is Shufflr.fm. That’s how I stumbled on this week’s Song for the Weekend. Posted on Off the Radar – this track is a blast from a disco 2000 past. French duo Pilooski and Pentile are...
I love Twitter. No, not because you end up reading lots of little sentences about people’s unfulfilled lives. It’s because you can find music which you would not otherwise have ever found before. So I was delighted to hear through a Guardian Music Tweet about the Musical Alliance Pact (MAP) which is being run by...
Canadian duo Dan Drysdale and Angela Drysdale are producing mesmerisingly beautiful dream pop as SolarSolar. If you miss the glory days of trip-hop then SolarSolar‘s take on one of Bristol’s most famous exports will not disappoint. Angela Drysdale’s vocals are exquisite and haunting yet clear and despite having a multitude of layers and events in the...
