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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 […]

Me and the Grownups (what a great name) fired up in late 2006. A year and bit later in February 2008they released their first album, “Battling the Mountains, the Sky and the Sea”.
Anita has her roots in singer-songwriting and traditional folk,Adrian is a jazz guitarist and Jonathan Dreyfus was once a classical violinist and […]

king tebbutt & whistler are an indie pop group from Melbourne. I stumbled over them while looking at who was playing at Manchester Lane (a Melbourne Jazz venue). There are only two tracks currently available at http://www.myspace.com/kingtebbuttandwhistler but the track “TV Screens ” is an absolute winner
I love the way they get the vocal […]

Regina Spektor has several albums out and you may well not know why this makes me happy. Let’s just say that I really love listening to this musicians songs. The songs are fresh, lyrical and the feeling is playful.
Her songs are little capsules of eccentricity - tales to delight and tunes that take their inspiration […]

“What Laura Says” has songs that are full of infectious, quirky vocals and banged out piano chords. Lyrically, they wander between comedic sarcasm and poignancy. Add in a blend of modern pop production and a bunch of retro sounds, from psychedelia to folk and bluegrass. Pretty tasty stuff.

Los Campesinos! are a seven piece indie band from Cardiff, Wales. “Los Campesinos” roughly translates as “The Farmers” (or “The Peasants”) in Spanish.
I spotted them in the lineup for Glastonbury festival and was truly surprised by their music, not what I was expecting (I’ll be honest I was looking to find something like Rodrigo y […]

Once again into the breach my friends! This time with an Irishman from Dublin named Gavin Friday. He has a voice that belongs in the stage production of Rocky Horror. It is as melodramatic as the titles of his songs.
As it turns out he was master of ceremonies of his own cabaret show called ‘Blue […]