So today we’ve got something pretty special for y’all. We’ve teamed up with brilliant music site The Line of Best Fit for a rather exciting project: a series of intimate live sessions showcasing fantastic young pop talent. Filmed exclusively for us, the sessions blend TLOBF’s experience in producing quality video …
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Tags: here's to everything, line of best fit, live, misha b, Notion, sessions, sony, tlobf, video
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Front man Ian Ray and a few of his friends make up Cambridgeshire band Straw Bear; an alt-country folk band with a playful psychedelic twist.
Since the release of their ambitious debut album Victims of the Engineers back in 2007, there has been a slow but steady buzz surrounding …
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Tags: Black Bank, Dominic Cooper, electro, folk, From The Seas To The Stars, kitty, Straw Bear
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‘Into the Wild‘, the first track unveiled from Lewis Watson‘s forthcoming third EP, The Wild, stands proudly as one of the 20 year-old singer-songwriter’s most fully realised and potent indie-folk songs yet. It’s dominated by hymnal chants, rousing choruses and Watson’s whispered confessionals, all of which …
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Tags: Into the Wild, lewis watson, march, Notion 062, The Wild, Warner
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The biggest problem with clubs and gig venues is that they are almost always too hot. If you’re really unlucky it becomes the type of underground lair which you would never willingly agree to enter where the walls are damp and sweat drips unceremoniously off the ceiling. A problem indeed. …
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Tags: Ahorn, Barclaycard Arctic Disco, Kasabian, Mayrhofen, snowbombing
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Fresh from a Mercury nomination, this is the moment when the world is waiting for Ben Howard to firm things up, grow, mature, confirm all that promise and establish an identity… all that bildungsroman stuff. Everybody knows you can’t really walk the line between BBC Radio 2 airplay and a …
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Tags: ben howard, Bon Iver, Bruce Springsteen, Burgh Island, Ed Sheeran, esmerelda, Gotye, john martyn, Mercury, oats in the water, The Burgh Island EP, to be alone
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The daughter of Jane Birkin and the half-sister of Charlotte Gainsbourg, it’s safe to say that 30 year-old model and singer Lou Doillon has some very big familial shoes to fill. Keep your eyes on her, though – if her family are anything to go by, she’s bound to be …
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Tags: april, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Decca, ep, Étienne Daho, ICU, jane birkin, Lou Doillon, places
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You might recognise this fluffy blonde-haired girl from a fluffy ginger-haired boy’s music video for a song called ‘Drunk’. Nina Nesbitt made a cameo appearance as Ed Sheeran’s love interest as he got inebriated with his cat and recalled flashbacks of his ex-girlfriend. Sheeran also personally invited the …
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Tags: Boy, drunk, ed cheeran, laura marling, nina nesbitt, the apple tree
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Nancy & Lee, Serge & Jane, and Mark Lanegan & Isobel Campbell – there’s a rich pedigree of pop duos who have had the ability to enchant and charm. Now it’s the turn of Adam Green and Little Joy singer Binki Shapiro. Though both noteworthy figures in the scruffy …
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Tags: adam green & binky shapiro, casanova, here i am, i never found out, just to make me feel good, late sixties folk pop, little joy, love and relationships, mark lanegan & isobel campbell, moldy peaches, nancy & lee, pity love, pop duos, self titled, serge & jane
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We were told about Milo Greene a couple of months ago, and on hearing they sound like Fleetwood Mac we had to give them a listen. And the comparison is valid – the crux of their début album is made from female and male vocal harmonies mixed with traditional, mellow five-piece …
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Tags: american charts, daytime radio, Fleetwood Mac, milo greene, Mumford & Sons, paul lester, vocal harmonies
Posted in Acoustic, Album Review, Ambient, charts, Do Not Miss This, Folk, guitar music, Indie, Introducing, Music, New Age, New Track, News!, Pop, Radio, Roots, Singles, top 40, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Fresh from a Mercury nomination, this is the moment when the world is waiting for Ben Howard to firm things up, grow, mature, confirm all that promise and establish an identity.
So, to delay the notorious Difficult Second Album Syndrome, Howard has come up with the Burgh Island EP. Does …
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Tags: ben howard, Bon Iver, burgh island ep, difficult second album syndrome, drive-time material, Ed Sheeran, esmerelda, Gotye, john martyn, katherine travers, Mercury Prize, oats in the water, to be alone
Posted in Acoustic, Folk, grassroots, guitar music, New Age, Pop, Reviews, Roots, Singer Songwriter, Singles, Soul, top 40 | 5 Comments »
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