One of the acts to watch this year as se drops her second album, we’ve got a great live recording of Glass by Bat for Lashes (MySpace) for your pleasure. She was featured here on TBW all the way back on the first Snazzy as Fuck compilation and has continually impressed. Fur and Gold was fantastic, and Two Suns is just mesmerising. I am finding it difficult to pigeon hole her sound ( and it appears I’m not the only one), but there are certainly elements of folk and electronica …

Named after the west london street one which they were born and raised, the Goldhawks offer a uniquely British flavour the old, good americana. Think of U2 when they were good, and without Bono (which is a blessing in so so many ways).
Where in the world is their debut single which you can pick up on 7″ over at Rough Trade
Goldhawks – Where in the world

Festival Republic’s award-winning Latitude Festival is back this summer, for the fourth year in a row.  The casually renowned four-day festival takes place in Suffolk’s seaside town of Southwold, and this year is starring the Pet Shop Boys, Grace Jones and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds as its mainstage headliners. Alongside its various music stages, Latitude also plays host to flourishings of poetry, comedy, theatre, film, dance, cabaret and literature. Yes, this is definitely a festival for the open-minded and  the artistic.
Latitude takes palce from July 16th to 19th …

The Rumble Strips (MySpace) are one of the bands a feel in love with from the first song I heard, which was the mighty “Motorcycle” (which you can pick up over at Sixeyes) when Transgressive picked them up. They play bittersweet pop/rock, which just gets inside your head, with their last record that regularly finds its way back into rotation, and this new track London is no different.
The Rumble Strips – London
The new album ‘Welcome To The Walk Alone’ was produced by Mark Ronson, and is due to be released …