Track Of The Day – Picking Up The Pieces (Bills & Hurr Remix)
This is a pretty “rad” remix as I believe the kids say. It sounds like Paloma has just met Donna Summer whilst being backed by New Order at Manumission. Yup, it’s a rather fab reworking
Liverpool Sound City 2012 – Timetable
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The Great Escape Preview – The Hype Machine Bloggers Choice.
The quite frankly fucking amazing interactive poster above, ( produced by a Great Escape intern who apparently spent many hellish hours putting each link on the poster) lets you listen to many of the bands
The Von Pip Musical Express Podcast – May 2012 – Episode 13
The VPME’s semi legendary podcast returns, featuring old faves from The Cocteau Twins, New Order, The Mary Chain, Curve plus guest intros from Jim Bob of Carter USM, Curxes, Jennifer Left, Velvet Two Stripes, Deathline
French Wives Debut Album “Dream of the Inbetween” A Track By Track Guide And Competition.
At the beginning of the year Scottish quintet French Wives were named in the top five “Blog Sound of 2012” as voted for by some of the UK’s top music blogs ( the idea being
Track Of The Day – Stealing Sheep – “Shut Eye”
Friday Freebie Liverpool based trio Stealing Sheep are set to conquer the world (well some of it) with their blend of wonky, surreal, choral pastoral folk . Throw in a touch of psychedelia and their
Tracks Of The Day – Crocodiles – “Endless Flowers” & Laura Welsh – “Call To Arms”
Friday Freebies – ( Two To Download Today!) Crocodiles – “Endless Flowers” It’s exactly a month until the release of their third album ‘Endless Flowers’ on June 4th, and to celebrate San Diego’s Crocodiles have
Track Of The Day – Swim Deep – “King City.”
Birmingham’s Swim Deep release their fabulous début single “King City” on 14th May via Chess Club Records. As well as being a singularly uplifting slice of dream pop it’s also, amongst other things, an ode
INTERVIEW – “Velvet Goldmine” – Introducing Velvet Two Stripes.
When we discovered Velvet Two Stripes we were, to use a time honoured phrase, blown away. This was due in the main down to the simple fact that their songs were just so fucking good
Track Of The Day – Susie Wilkins – “No Answer”
This may be the only time we thank David Cameron on this blog, for anything, because it was due to his pasty little pink airbrushed bollock of a face that we first met Susie Wilkins.
Track Of The Day (2) – The Daydream Club – Neon Love Song (Part II)
It’s often very difficult to put into words why a particular piece of music can be so affecting, why it can provoke a sudden rush of emotion. It could be the melody combined with a
Track Of The Day – Avec Sans – Perth.
The Friday Freebie. Everybody loves Bon Iver, no ? Well no, I’ve personally never gone totally crazy over him, maybe its his voice, maybe I’m bored with the male falsetto, but I do recognise the