Keep your eyes set on this promising singer-songwriter from Nottinghamshire. Callum Burrows, better known by his stage name Saint Raymond, is not afraid to get you addicted to his indie-pop gems and after the success of his E.P “Young Blood” smashing the U.K charts, we can be eager in expecting great things from the creative teenager. Only 19 years old and having already supported HAIM and Ed Sheeran, it is fair to say there is…
Band Name: The Swans Album name: To be Kind Label: Young God Records / Mute 9 / 10 The Swans weren’t the first 80s underground band to make a comeback after 2000; they’re not even the only ones who refused any nostalgic get-together tour. But when they did come back, they weren’t just a reunited band – they were a changed band. Michael Gira assembled a different line-up, including a huge drummer accurately named Thor, and…
Go Around Captain ‘Everything I Own Is Nicked’ is the debut EP from Preston based band Go Around Captain. Since September 2013, Go Around Captain have gained a reputation and local respect in the north west of England for their explosive, energetic live shows. The band already has an impressive repertoire of bands they have played alongside including ‘This Town Needs Guns’ and ‘Victor Villarreal’ (formally of Cap’n Jazz.) The guitars on…
I listened to ‘Part Of Your Life’ by Aquilo on a train coming out of London in the rain, and it was the perfect accompaniment. Trains make me think, and the electro-hypnotic flow of the track makes it easy to either zone out, or stay deadly focused. This is not a summer song, it suits the rain, but that doesn’t mean it’s in any way dreary. It flows smoothly through an abyss of calculated noise…
Snapshot… Where to start? This album is the closest we’ve had to the raw sound of the early sixties since the early sixties. Aged only between 16 and 17, and with their debut album reaching the top 5, these 4 boys are really starting to make a name for themselves. They’ve already got Jeff Beck, Paul Weller, Roger Daltrey, Noel Gallagher and Dave Grohl behind them, and I think if 5 of the biggest musicians in the…
When the Arctic Monkeys arrived on the scene in the mid-2000s, few must have pegged them to make it this far. Cursed with extraordinary hype from the music press, the band seemed destined to follow the paths of the many similarly-hyped bands that preceded them. Fellow Brits The Libertines fizzled out after two albums while The Strokes have been unable to recapture past glory and have seemed on the verge of a breakup since the…
It’s been four years since Jay-Z released his last solo album, The Blueprint 3. While that was his last solo offering, he also worked on the album Watch the Throne, a collaborative effort with Kanye West. In many ways Watch the Throne was the introduction to a new Jay-Z, one who is enthralled with name-dropping high-end brands and seems almost impossibly unrelatable. On Magna Carta he’s become even more interested in both expensive clothing…
35 years. That’s how long it’s been since the release of Never Say Die!, the last Black Sabbath studio album to feature the band’s original lineup of Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward. When Black Sabbath reunited in 2012, they announced an album that was to be the long-awaited studio return of this legendary lineup. The resulting record, entitled 13, does not quite fulfill that promise, as drummer Bill Ward pulled out…
It’s been over eight years since the release of Human After All, Daft Punk’s last proper studio album. While the duo composed a soundtrack for the movie Tron: Legacy in 2010, it didn’t quite feel like a true Daft Punk album. In many ways, Random Access Memories doesn’t sound like Daft Punk we’ve come to know, either. But that’s not a necessarily a bad thing. While not a complete departure from the duo’s past work,…
Album: Modern Vampires of the Ciy Artist: Vampire Weekend Genre: Indie Rock Release: May 13, 2013 Label: XL Recordings ZME Score: 8.5/10 Website: www.vampireweekend.com Musicians trying to make a name for themselves in the age of Web 2.0 often find the Internet to be a double-edged sword. There’s no denying that with Bandcamp, Twitter, Facebook, and the blogosphere, every up-and-coming band now has the potential to reach a wide audience and share their music with the…
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