The Baby Monster boys are back with a storming second single in “She Comes Alive”. This is a lighter, happier feel compared to Ultra Violence and Beethoven, but doesn’t disappoint by getting stuck in your head with a chorus that transcends the snappy electro-pop verse into a glorious and uplifting shower of aural colour.
Also exciting is that this is being released as the first single from BIGSTEREO – another blog that is turning its musical hand into a label. Congrats where its due (even if I’m a little jealous right …

After a year in which folk and electropop ruled the roost it is about time that growling, thrashy rock and roll stuck its head above the parapet again – and The Federals are here to do just that.
Swaggering their way from York, and naming their influences as The Stooges, the White Stripes and BRMC – this four piece provide the snarling vocals, destroyed guitars, and moshable rhythms that should make you stand up and take notice. Violent, unruly and just what the music world needs at the moment – a …

Thanks to my lovely friend Tory I managed to get a last minute ticket to see The Rumble Strips (MySpace) and The Maccabees (MySpace) at the distinguished Hospital Club in Covent Garden last night. It was great to see these two back on the same bill again and this was part of the Barclaycard Mercury Prize Sessions which have hosted Noah and the Whale, Florence and the Machine and the Golden Silvers over the past few months.
I hadn’t been to the Hospital Club before, but I have to say its …

Meursault‘s Nothing Broke was one of my favourite EPs of this year, and the delightfully consistent Song, by Toad Records have just released a couple of 7″ singles  on transparent vinyl to close out the year. Oh yes they look very pretty indeed, but it’s the music that you’re reading this for and Meursault do not disappoint.
The singles each contain a song from their December 2008 album Pissing on Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues as well as a full version of William Henry Miller Pt.1 and 2 respectively, re-recorded with new band …

My interest in Goldhawks was sparked by Tim’s recommendation back here, and so when I heard they would be visiting Norwich last Sunday, I made sure I was available.  After a weekend spent in the capital, riding the tube and continuously passing the road that gave the boys their name, it really seemed a natural progression to end my Sunday in the confines of one of Norwich’s most out of the way venues for a band recommended by my editor and who sound just a bit too good to be …

We Were Promised Jetpacks made what has become probably my favourite record of 2009 in “These Four Walls” (yes I know I should do a full review), and to finish the year they are releasing a double A-side “It’s Thunder and It’s Lightning”/ “Ships With Holes Will Sink” which are two of my favourites off a consistently fantastic album.
In a year that has been dominated by the resurgence of folk and synth-pop, it is always good to have such undeniably talented indie rockers reminding us of quite how good they …