Mumford & Sons (MySpace) were quite easily one of my favourites bands of 2009 (and Lauren’s too) with their fantastic EP and album releases. And The Cave was my favourite track of the bunch – enough so that I introduced it on the Contrast Podcast end of year countdown. But now they are releasing it as a single on 1st March, which is great news if you want a copy on 45 and in the fact that they have done a video.
I would give tour dates as they are one …
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 …
We’ve seen some great nu-folk musicians pop up over the past few years – Laura Marling, Mumford & Sons, Noah And The Whale and Johnny Flynn just to name a few – but there are still some brilliant new artists appearing, and the pace at which this ever-expanding ‘folk’ genre is mutating and refreshing itself looks set to continue well into 2010.
I’d wager that the magnificent Adelaide’s Cape is going to be a 2010 poster child for this particular ‘scene’, ‘movement’ or whatever other label we’re pegging on it this …
Over the past year or so, the indie pop scene has quietened down a little – at least in terms of how good its offerings are. But, of course, this doesn’t mean that there aren’t great new acts bubbling under the surface of the calm exterior…
One such is Blonde Louis. This four-piece guitar-oriented band are between the tender ages of 16 and 18, and they’ve been making waves with a tour supporting Goldhawks at the end of 2009 and their own headline tour scheduled for next month.
If the MySpace demo …
Just a quick heads up to any Londoners that the wonderful Veronica Bianqui is an eARmusic resident at The Old Queen’s Head tomorrow night – that’s Sunday 10th January. Other stars playing this FREE event are Animal Kingdom, Laurel Collective and Pete Roe.
Veronica’s room-silencing performances have mesmerized audiences in Los Angeles, and now she comes to London with her eccentric, folksy sound. Her socially conscious mix of June Carter meets Janis Joplin-type vocals will kick off this fun day of festivities. Cracking roasts, great music, free entry, means a great …
