Rebecca Jade Rebecca Jade – Well Rebecca Jade is a Welsh guitarist and songwriter living in London and, lucky for you, she’s just released her debut album The Distaff Muse. This video was made by shouting out to followers on Twitter who were each featured alongside one line of the song. It’s charming, DIY and …
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Mevrouw Tamara Mevrouw Tamara – Leiden <a href=”http://mevrouwtamara.bandcamp.com/album/ik-ben-spiritus”>Ik ben Spiritus by Mevrouw Tamara</a> Musician Adam ‘Finglebone’ Varney often sends tips our way and when he does they’re always a winner. Take Mevrouw Tamara for example, guitar picking Amsterdam native who makes beautiful simple folk music singing her in home tongue. The Guardian got in touch …
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Smoke Fairies We kicked off this week’s show with a brand new track from one of our favourite’s The Horn The Hunt from Leeds are an electronic rock duo whose album Depressur Jolie didn’t leave our ipod for many a month. They’re back with a new single Gold and it’s GREAT. <p>&amp;amp;lt;a href=”http://thehornthehunt.bandcamp.com/album/gold-single”&amp;amp;gt;Gold (single) by …
Pisces – Voodoo Sarah Negahdari is the guitar-toting frontwoman of LA psych-rockers Happy Hollows who themselves have a new album on the horizon but more on that later. This is her side project, more whimsical folk and psychedelic than what she does with HH, Pisces is what you’d get if you stripped back the noise …
Kicking off the show this week we have the new single from all female alt-choir Gaggle, Army of Birds, which sets the tone of the show brilliantly:: We also have an interview with the soon-to-be-stratospheric Mary Epworth, her album Dream Life is out next month on her own wee indie Hand of Glory Records and …
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Emorie – Change This Toronto band have just released this single and video, they’re first, and an extremely promising sign of things to come. The debut album Never Goes Away will be coming soon from Adm and Hunter, Hunter is who you hear on vocals and she’s who messaged TOW on Facebook asking for us …
On this week’s show we have our most riotous interview yet. Vuvuvultures are four musicians who make the kind of hip swaggeringly fine music that you wish you were them, just a little bit. Turns out I went to school with Paul’s (the producer and techie brains behind the band) girlfriend. He’s South African and …
Supertalented is Noa Kurzweil and friends: they make short, weird, lo-fi pop tunes about, well, cheesecake and potatoes and things… Weight Watchers and Plus Size are the two albums she’s released on netlabel Birdsong and every song is shorter and sweeter than the next. The tag line is: “Supertalented are super Lo-Fi for Superpeople.” High …
This week on the show jazz-soul singer Zara McFarlane drops in for a chat about her debut album released last year on Brownswood Recordings. Turns out sorta-stalking label boss and DJ Gilles Peterson on Twitter paid off! There’s new music from Brighton band Us Baby Bear Bones, Cardiff via the west country Laurence Made Me …
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Janine And The Mixtape – Bullets WARNING: THIS WILL GET STUCK IN YOUR HEAD FOR DAYS. It’s the voice (take note The Voice tv show fans – this is how it’s done) and one hell of a hook. Janine Foster fronts Janine and the Mixtape: she sings, writes the songs, produces, plays synths, sorts out …
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