They take their name from a quote in Jules Verne’s 2000 Leagues under the Sea; they play symphonic electronica with a dream pop sensibility and at times, they sound rather like Emily Haines fronting the
The Great Escape 2013 Those nice people at Hype Machine asked us to pick our five MUST see acts at this year’s Great Escape Festival… You can see our choices here But here they are
AELIUS is the name of Caesar Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus Buccellanus Augustus, or Hadrian to you and I. It’s a pretty apt name for electro-duo Martin Roberts and Lee Tyler to have adopted as their collective
The New Fabian Society unleash a brutal raw jackhammering sonic assault, imbued with the sort of dark drama bands like the Editors can only dream of aspiring to. The band describe themselves as a “bi
A year ago, the day after amazing Radio stopped broadcasting on the DAB network, we wrote an article entitled “Keep Radio Amazing, on DAB”. We detailed why the service amazing Radio provide in the promotion
Day 1 | Day 2 | And so it came to pass that on the third day of Liverpool Sound City our hangover had swelled to Brobdingnagian proportions! We awoke gripped by ‘the F.E.A.R.’ aka
Day 1 | Day 3 | Day 2 kicked off with a not inconsiderable hangover eased slightly by a conference hosted by 6 Music new music champion Tom Robinson. He was joined by those nice
Day 2 | Day 3 | Liverpool Sound City 2013 – three days of amazing music and mayhem that left us utterly exhausted, but provided us with memories of some genuinely life affirming highs of
We are almost recovered from Liverpool Sound City – more on that later, but this track is just what the doctor ordered, appropriately from a new Liverpool based electro duo called KALA (which apparently means
There won’t be much going on in terms of new music this week on the site, as we’ll be entering the scary physical world again via the magical musical portal that is Liverpool Sound City.
We first featured Lexy and The Kill back at the start of the year describing her as singer who was blessed with a “powerful emotive, soulful voice who arrives armed with a clutch of songs
We happened across a couple of Sian King’s demos last year (for it is she who is Bon-Bon, but shhh keep that under your hat) and recall being rather impressed. And it would certainly not have been