I’ve tried to keep my feelings of a political slant off TBW recently no matter how much actions the music industry and Google in the continuing #musicblogocide2k10 or the BBC’s plans to close 6 Music annoy me, but with a free gig being offered for everyone to show their support for 6 Music now might be a good time to start…
6 Music is, in my mind at least, exactly what this so called digital revolution with more space for radio stations was supposed to be for. They have taken the …

I’ve already waxed lyrical about how much I love the idea behind the PEACE musical atlas compiled by the Buffetlibre duo, but it gets released next month and we’ve got an update with the full and ridiculously impressive list of artists across the globe and a few more MP3s to share.
PEACE is conceived as the first musical atlas online, with more than 150 brand new  songs by artists from more than 50 countries/territories. PEACE will be available digitally worldwide on April 12 …and the best part? All the proceeds go …

2009 was a big year for us here at The Blue Walrus, as we took on more staff writers that lets us cover more new music more often whether that be indie, folk, electro, blues or anything else we think is awesome. But with that in mind, we have moved away from the simple musings of one man on music upon which the site was designed. Thus as we move forward into 2010 we have taken the plunge into a new design that will help us highlight some of the …

So its the end of the year and the end of the decade and that means that you can’t move but for the lists of the best and worst of times. Saam from Faded Glamour had done the honourable thing and managed to convince a bunch of British bloggers (myself included) to share their favourite British albums of the last ten year, and then condensed our ramblings into a couple of lists.
First of all we’ve got the top 10 albums of the decade with all our thoughts compiled together
Then we’ve …

I’m a little behind schedule with this one, but Anthony over at the fantastic Tastes Like Caramel asked me to introduce one of my current musical obsessions as part of his “Your New Obsession” series. So if you want to know who I picked (and maybe pick up a song of theirs that I didn’t post) pop on over to my guest obsession at TLC.

This week, I’ve been to three gigs that are worthy of mention, and rather than bombard you with three separate posts (how would you have coped?!), I thought I’d give you a run down of the amazing music I’ve been flitting between this week…

Monday was The Xcerts in support of Idlewild at Norwich’s Waterfront. Picture more than decent Scottish rock with a blast of meaning behind it; that’s a summary of Xcerts.  They were absolutely marvellous lads; punchy and rock-filled tunes with lots of character and angst involved. The boys …