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Extra Golden is a Kenyan-American band who stumbled into funk as an accidental by-product of its style, which combines  Nairobian benga music (Benga is one of the most beloved forms of popular music in Kenya)  and good old rock ’n’ roll. With a solid downbeat underpinning the drive the band make all the variations in […]

Håkan Jorming is an unsigned singer and songwriter from Stockholm in Sweden. He performs a variety of acoustic indie songs that are gentle and sweet accompanied by finger style acoustic guitar or piano.
“Let Me Into Your Heart” is pretty standard emo fodder underpinned by solid kick and rhythm guitar. “Things Will Happen” bears the […]

It would be easy enough to dismiss this former model as yet another wannabe - but there is substance in the voice, in the songwriting and in the realisation of her work.
While the vocals may have an ethereal quality to them, the performance is solid and as for the production the layers each transparent enough […]

This is about the Vivian Girls from New York NOT the Melbourne band (deceased around 2000? then resurrected as Flesh and Venom). It’s a bit weird really because both acts have a solid punk ethos at the core of their music.
Now let’s not kid around here, this isn’t “Idol” sanitised pop that they are […]

“HOT HORNS + HEAVY PERCUSSION“, thats what it says on the Nomo Myspace site. Oh yes, do they live up to it. Minimalist keyboard loops, fuzzed-out bass, the odd soulful vocal, and then there’s the electric mbira (a Zimbabwean thumb piano also known in parts of Southern Africa as a kalimba), an electric sawblade gamelan […]

I have to say Andy Moor is nothing less than eclectic. His tastes roam further out than mine. Yep you guessed it, it’s Hard Listening” time.
How hard I hear you ask? Well over at “Unsound Records” (great name by the by) there is a piece called “Ugandan Fly“. It’s basically a relentless guitar riff […]

Every so often I stumble across a band who you could arguably class as somehere between country and  Americana and I just get caught up in their performance. Today’s find is New York band “Ollabelle” and it’s their fabulous repertoire that just kills me, “songs of hard times, loss, compassion and hope” is how Fiona […]