Helldorado was formed in the spring of 2001 in Stavanger, Norway. Most of the members had been playing in local band The Tramps for several years, and had considerable live and studio experience with that band. They where looking for a much darker and broader musical landscape than they could find in The Tramps, and…
I must admit to being surprised that Counting Crows have chosen to release this live album. After all, it’s only a couple of years since their last live album (August and Everything After: Live at Town Hall). With the last studio album – ’Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation)’ having been…
Since releasing their debut full-length Con Law in 2009, Generationals have consistently delivered pop hooks shone through a melancholic prism. 2013’s Heza brings the band to Polyvinyl and along with the label change, comes a subtle but significant sonic shift. Recorded in phases at Jim Eno’s Public Hifi in Austin, producer Daniel Black’s Bent Black…
Cathedral have released a music video for the song ’Tower Of Silence’. Inspired by classic cult British Film Institutions such as Amicus and Hammer House of Horror, ’Tower of Silence’ was shot on location during the British Winter of 2012 at Gunnersbury Park Tower, London. It features a guest appearance from Purson’s Rosalie Cunningham, who…
Swedish melodic metal outfit, Dead By April, have revealed that they will play a 4-date headline UK tour this May with support from fellow Swedes, Beyond All Recognition. The tour sees the band return to the UK for the first time since their headline run back in November 2011. DBA guitarist Pontus Hjelm says:- ”We’re…
Producer Joe Boyd has brought together a group of artists to create a tribute album for Nick Drake. Nick Drake died at the age of just 26, still relatively unknown, but his songs have grown in popularity since his death. What is unusual about this album is that although each song is recorded with different…
Moussu T e lei Jovents, made up of the founder and singer of Massilia Sound System, Tatou (alias Moussu T, Mister T), and his guitarist, Blu, are now a major presence on the French music scene: an uncontested figurehead of Occitan music, the group is now making a name for itself beyond the frontiers of…
Anna Lena’s haunting vocal style has been described by UK press as ’unique’ and ’ethereal’, and the imagery in her lyrics, especially given it being her second language, shows experience and conviction beyond her years.. Anna Lena has gradually been building her live presence, performing with her Orchids all over the UK and Norway, counting…
Recorded in a chilly boat, a dank basement and an old temperance hall, Vienna Ditto’s debut EP, Liar Liar, is a DIY diary of their first, turbulent, two years. Recorded and produced by the band themselves, the tapes were then rescued and mixed by Umair Chaudhry at Silver St Studios. The result is intelligent yet…
Here Is Your Temple invite you into their theoretical world of fears, obsessions, love, hate and progress. Acting as distant observers in occupancy of a Universe separate to our own, this debut EP is a veritable brocade of heavy, dreamy, alt-pop that channels the spirits of Nico and Beach House (while paying homage in their…
James Younger left his home town of Manchester in Britain at the ripe young age of 21 and headed for the States. He hitchhiked across America, dissecting life in conversations with all those he came across and scribbling down stories in a notepad he kept in his breast pocket. These conversations and stories became the…
Formed in 2008, and after a couple of years lurking on the periphery of Stockholm’s music scene, Let’s Say We Did began to gain momentum with the release of a trilogy of EP’s. In November 2011 the band released their debut, self titled, album produced by Let’s Say We Did and Pelle Gunnerfeldt (The Hives,…