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Cotton Jones are Michael Nau and Whitney McGraw and together they create a music that  mixes elements of folk, rock and gospel into a truly familiar sound. The guitars and voices blend together like old friends. Hype from the website… Paranoid Cocoon: the debut full-length for Suicide Squeeze.  It’s an album full of quiet, wooden [...]

Dear and the Headlights are a very cool indie rock band I was lucky enough to hear over at the NPR Second Stage Podcast (seriously have a listen). The track I heard was “I’m Not Crying. You’re Not Crying, Are You?” and in places it sounds more like an song that an English band would [...]

Have you ever discovered that you have been listening to a band for a couple of weeks and then suddenly realise that you have no idea how you found them? Meet  Water Method, I honestly don’t know how these guys ended up on my playlist, not a clue. Don’t get me wrong, I am having [...]

Mason Proper are a rather nifty rock band who fired up in around 2004,they released “Olly Oxen Free” free late last year and there are some great songs on it, but “Fog” is the one for me. Sparse, atmospheric and just compelling. The raw guitar notes and the voice that ring out at the start [...]

Casual Projects are a big band. No not that kind, I mean there are a lot of members – eight of em. Pat Lillicrap – Vocals Muchtar Johnson – Vocals Julian Abrahams – Guitar/Vocals Munro Melano – Keyboards/Vocals Dan Bray – Saxophone/Synths Nick Keeling – Vocals/Synths/Trombone Kane Watters – Bass Yen Nguyen – Drums “Time” [...]

The Deadfly Ensemble‘s, “A Seed Catalog For Extinct Annuals”, is a gem. A dark and disturbing gem. But a gem nonetheless.

This has been wandering off an on my MP3 player for a while now and they are one of those bands where you think “OK I’ll delete that one… or maybe not. May be next week” Repeat for the last three or so months.

My problem is that they are in the same playlist I keep “Abney Park” in and they are just such a perfect complement to the “Air Pirates“.

Woo hoo – another metal band. Yes, yes, I know I was supposed to grow out of the metal band thing years and years ago.

Sorry. Not gonna happen. Ever since finding Dragonforce last year , I have been keeping an eye out for interesting metal acts. Truth be told, Jools spotted them first and sent them along for me to have a look at. (Thanks Jools)