My second single ‘People Keep Telling Me’ was inspired by the fact that I was really tired of going to all these parties and the first question people would ask would be ‘Oh, where’s your boyfriend?’ ‘Do you have a boyfriend?’ Why is that the first thing you have to ask me? Why not ask me how my music career is going? How my degree is going? It’s a song about confidence, about female empowerment. I want that song to embody strong females.
Read MoreThe announcement regarding the reopening of venues – at first glance - was a relief; finally there was a way of getting the culture sector back up and running. However, the further delay and the government guidelines for when venues do reopen have now caused more concerns and raised more questions for local, grassroots venues.
Read MoreIt is amazing how powerful live music is. I think a lot of people, outside of your music enthusiasts, and artists, have realised how important live music is. It is like a unity. I would go as far as saying live music is one of the biggest forms of unity in the whole world. For me and the guys, it just doesn’t feel like things are back to normal until that comes back. Live music is at the heart of it all.
Read MoreDuring a pub gathering three years ago, a mutual friend introduced singer-songwriter Michelle Bee to Mark Kyriacou, a music producer and co-founder of the band Loka. A casual conversation about favourite artists led to their passing bits of music and vocals back and forth via WhatsApp and the discovery of a natural creative connection.
Read MoreGadget G Radio is a brand new music community that has recently been put together by myself, KL Merchant. My vision was to create this impactful platform to support all unsigned and independent creative artists worldwide in getting themselves heard without being judged.
Read MoreFoxgluvv is an unapologetically gay DIY pop artist from Birmingham, now based in Queen’s Park in north London, who has created the perfect score for your late night party with her signature ‘hungover-pop’ sound. Blending the lyrics and aesthetics of modern left-field pop music with her love of the 80s, Foxgluvv's music is packed with dreamy synths, lo-fi beats, camp and extravagance.
Read MoreAnd that's the power of music; it blends into your atmosphere and brings you to a place sometimes unknown - when you haven't even moved from your bed. Your room might become a jungle under the sound of Boozoo Bajou, or you might suddenly be on an empty train leading somewhere with beautiful views - just by closing your eyes.
Read MoreIf you like the sweeping vocals, clever sampling, melancholy and heart-punching downtempo dance of recent years, made famous by the likes of Jamie XX, James Blake and Caribou, you should definitely be listening to xxweesh right now.
Read MoreAs UK theatres and museums sit quietly in darkness, waiting for audiences to return, London-based band Psychic Markers prepares to release its third album. The sonic artistry of the eponymous Psychic Markers merges a well-curated blend of psychedelic, electronic, and nostalgic sounds for a cinematic-like experience.
Read MoreI have been passionate about music for as long as I can remember; going to concerts with friends when I was in school, being forced to listen to Absolute Radio 80s in the car with my dad, dancing to 60s Northern soul music at The Lanes every Saturday when I was 18.
Read MoreCrane Creek flows through sycamore and black oak trees down to Crane, a small Missouri town in America’s Ozark region. Shiver and Rush, the newest album by singer-songwriter Liz Carney, draws on Carney’s family history and the mystique of the Ozarks.
Read MoreThe live music and clubbing scene is all a bit different nowadays in the times of coronavirus. We all have to stay at home, but the music industry is doing all that it can to keep music coming to us if we can’t go to it, whilst we listen together, albeit apart. Here in Bristol, the Colston Hall has long been the lynch pin of the live music scene, and yesterday on Saturday 23rd May they took their festival The Bristol Takeover online.
Read MoreBurch, Ruth Goller on the bass, and Jim Hart on the drums comprise Vula Viel, a band continuing to explore its own unique sound with each new album, including the recent What’s Not Enough About That.
Read MoreWe recently (virtually) met up with Hector Boogieman and Bendy Wendy from Try Me, a Bristol-based duo who, in their own words, are ‘on a mission to make people boogie and forget their woes’.
Read MoreBorn and raised in Suffolk, IdleGod spent his formative years writing and playing guitar for numerous bands, across a variety of genres. Following the release of their new single Glass we chatted to learn a bit more about their music, creative process and future plans.
Read MoreOn Thursday the 2nd of April, Jonatan Leandoer Håstad (Yung Lean) emerged from the darkness at Stockholm’s Frihamnen harbour and beckoned the audience to follow him towards the back of a truck, parked up next to a Russian freight ship. Lean opened the door and revealed the interior, laden with burning candelabras, wall hangings, a dead tree decorated with dream catchers and various statues of animals.
Read MoreOn Saturday night I was treated to a full set by The Comet is Coming, and if I had stayed up any longer could have spent the rest of the night streaming sets by Disclosure, Helena Hauff and dipped into DJ EZ doing a mammoth 24 hour DJ set. Sadly, red wine, crisps and desperation don’t stimulate me enough to stay up alone past midnight in this new world order.
Read MoreRunning alongside the meteoric rise of Swedish rap sensation Yung Lean, a parallel course has been quietly trodden by auto-tune crooner Bladee. Although not sporting the same level of commercial success as Yung Lean (Jonatan Leandoer Håstad), Bladee (Benjamin Reichwald) has been there from the beginning, his creative output traversing between the Sad Boys collective and his own group, Drain Gang (formerly Gravity Boys and Shield Gang).
Read MoreFormed in January 2019, London-based FEZ are a blend of psychedelia and progressive rock that doesn't simply embrace nostalgia for a bygone era of music but reinterprets their essence in a post-rock world. With an equal emphasis on songwriting, sonics and improvisation, every member is at the forefront of the band's music.
Read MoreGoya Gumbani’s A Thousand Months dropped in January, we caught up with him and producer NCJG to discuss how the record came about.
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