The musical dynamic that exists between Britain and the USA is one that has propelled music throughout the last 50 years but never more so than in the early years when rock/pop was a blank sheet stretching away to the horizon. First there was the initial blast from the States in the 1950s to be answered by the British Beat…read more
Way back in August of 2009 I mentioned this hot new British singer/songwriter named Bradley Say (I think I first learned about him on either ElectroQueer or ArjanWrites ) and something about him really struck a chord with me.
As the Pink Floyd once said, ‘And then one day you find Ten years have got behind you’ In fact they are wrong; ten years doesn’t so much get behind you as sprint away to the distant horizon as fast as its legs will carry it i.e. about the speed of light, never to be seen again. We all…read more
‘Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be’, so say a host of waggish graffiti artists and they could be right as nostalgia only really works in certain circumstances. Music has long been known to be the conduit by which we can revisit the past and relive past glories (or not). Songs that we remember from specific events can sometimes trigger…read more
In life there are a number of unwritten rules, like toast falling jam side down. Another is that when a music collection grows to a certain point, there is an ‘event horizon’ effect where some parts of it drop off the radar, never to be seen again. Generally those items hidden behind the horizon comprise a whole bunch of only…read more
Ok, new round, no conferring. What is it that links Siouxsie and the Banshees to Kate Bush? No, not a shock of black hair, nor the fact that their best years were in the mid-1980s. In fact, you couldn’t pick a more diverse duo. The one, a classically trained Home Counties singer-songwriter given to strangely melodic ballads about…read more
UNKLE is the British trip-hop, afrobeat, and major supplier of all things incredibly awesome musical outfit who have been successfully rocking our bodies for the past 15 years. Using a variety of guest artists and producers, James Lavelle and Tim Goldsworthy are set to entertain again with a new album on the horizon. Where Did the Night Fall is…read more
ATS Recording Artist Estela is a singer songwriter based in Orange County CA. She began performing at the age of eight years old and writing her own songs by the age of fourteen. Estela is a seasoned young singer/songwriter and when you experience Estela’s live…read more
Someone once said that there is ‘nothing new under the sun’ as it is recorded in Ecclesiastes I (1-14). Whoever it was, they were dead right. These days, whenever I listen to anything new, I am always reminded of something else be it singer, band, general song writing style, sound etc etc. After fifty-odd years of popular music …read more
Matthew P is an artist I’ve mentioned before, a handsome singer/songwriter from the UK who’s new single ” Gilly ” comes out on July 26th via Fiction Records . The artist has just released a video for the single (which I can’t watch because I live in America…** GRUMBLE GRUMBLE **) but I almost don’t care, it’s such a…read more
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