As the summer music conference season springs into life with more conferences than industry to attend them, Seven Webster and Claire Lloyd ask some of the better conference organisers and owners for their tips of acts that they see currently destined for greatness, alongside our usual array of select industry guests and friends.
Sat Bisla (MUSEXPO [...]
Django Spears release their latest EP entitled Now.
Britney Spears has gone gypsy/jazz according to a reliable source. Inspired by the pop industry of the 90s and the jazz guitar of Django Reinhardt, this Brighton based outfit specialise in regurgitating disposable pop from the last fifteen years or so and making it more digestible. To this [...]
Home: Brighton.
Musical Family Tree: Blondie vs The Strokes in a punk rock house party of epic proportions.
Unique Selling Point: The most stylish front woman to break out of Brighton since… well, anyone.
Why Should We Care? Having just confirmed to play The Great Escape Festival in May, they’re sure to make waves on the local scene [...]
Springing from Brighton, Ice Black Birds have just erupted in the music scene with a new EP. ‘Ears To The Ground’ and B-side ‘Heavy Independent Blues’ are a couple of bluesy tracks lead by disco beats and simplistic bass lines. The songs catch the ear gently while remaining fresh and original, keeping their sound as [...]
Hometown: Bristol, UK
Musical Family Tree: Queens Of The Stoneage in a bar room brawl with Ghost Of A Thousand… with hammers!
Unique Selling Point: Purveyors of some of the best song titles ever! ‘Ancient Snake’, ‘Bite Me Like A Dog’ and ‘Let’s Die’ to name but a few.
Why Should We Care? They have also got some [...]
Hometown: Brighton
Musical Family Tree: Imagine The Doors and Queens Of The Stoneage letting it all hang out on an all-night drinking session, culminating in an orgy at Zippo’s Circus.
Unique Selling Point: They look as though they’ve been stylised by Insane Clown Posse and specialise in turning nursery rhymes into psychedelic garage anthems.
Why should we care? [...]
Hometown: Southampton.
Musical family tree: Cage The Elephant, Billy Boy On Poison, Amazing Baby.
Unique selling point: Their artwork so far is based on paintings by bassist/vocalist Emma who recently held an exhibition called ‘Meat Me At The Butchers’ in a butcher’s shop where she worked weekends.
Why should we care? Vocalist/guitarist Russell survived a near fatal car [...]
Musical family tree: ABBA, ELO and Ladyhawke having a dancing competition in a log cabin in Sweden
Why should we care: The LA 3 piece make the sort of catchy pop music you dream of hearing at those cool underground New York discos.
Beg, Steal or Borrow: The Light of Love EP’ out now on Secretly Canadian
Killer [...]
This October, Oxjam 2009, the U.K’s biggest music festival, hits Brighton! Bands and DJ’s will take to the stage raising money and awareness for Oxfam and its Climate Change Campaign.
The events run from the 19th October until the 25th October in venues around the city. Highlights include the ‘Battle of the Bands Final’ at Hectors [...]
Ellie Goulding
Hometown: Powys, Wales
Musical family tree: Burial hanging out with Little Boots and Bon Iver and writing rainbow coloured pop songs.
Unique Selling Point: More interesting than just about every other female singer doing the synth-pop thing, soldering folk and electronic pop influences seamlessly.
Why should we care? Attempting covers of Bon Iver and Passion Pit and [...]
Justin Townes Earle
Hometown: Nashville, Tennessee
Musical family tree: Classic rock’n’roll lineage. Son of Steve Earle, the country rock legend and survivor of multiple marriages and addictions, JT has added country and ragtime in his blood.
Unique Selling Point: Superbly marries a mainstream songwriting sense with the edge of a booze-addled troubadour.
Why should we care? He has the [...]
Marina and the Diamonds
Hometown: Wales/“Ancient Greece”
Musical family tree: Kate Bush, Cyndi Lauper and Tori Amos skipping down a country lane together holding hands to celebrate finally writing the perfect pop song about modern life being rubbish. And Regina Spektor.
Unique Selling Point: More outspoken than her female pop contemporaries, she gives the impression of being just [...]
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