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   The Other Woman meets Lauren Doss, she’s a 25 year old singer, songwriter and pianist who goes under the moniker of Mechanical Bride. You may remember her haunting version of Rihanna’s ‘Umbrella’ which got loads of airplay on Radio 1 a few years ago:    Mechanical Bride – “Umbrella” (Rihanna Cover) by CoopMusicFrance Now …

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Pale Man Made – Cabales    Christanne is one of two girls who make up half of Newcastle fuzzed up popsters Pale Man Made.  Christanne’s email that popped into TOW’s inbox says: ‘we play music driven by discordant jangles, bittersweet lyrics, and, female and male vocals – inspired by the The Shop Assistants, Comet Gain, …

Inbox: Newcastle’s Pale Man Made & Brighton’s Bella Spinks Read More »

<a href=”http://kihlstedtbossi.bandcamp.com/album/still-you-lay-dreaming-tales-for-the-stage-ii”>Still You Lay Dreaming: Tales for the Stage, II by Carla Kihlstedt &amp; Matthias Bossi</a> Jazz By Association is an excellent programme on French Radio London, playing a mix of leftfield and experimental jazz, with an emphasis on French artists. Presenter and contemporary jazz boffin Jason Phipps recommends this album by Carla Kihlstedt and …

Experimental jazz: Carla Kihlstedt & Mattias Bossi new album Still You Lay Dreaming: Tales for the Stage II Read More »

Letters To Fiesta – Drag The Fire This Manchester band write fresh, catchy, uplifting pop tunes with layered lo-fi vocals, synthesisers a-plenty and some serious hooks… Anna Louise Etherington is who you hear on lead vocals and she pounds away at the synths too.    Kissing Cousins – Unfortunate End From the cold, mean streets …

Letters to Fiesta and Kissing Cousins this week’s new discoveries Read More »

   Hurray for the Riff Raff are the sound of New Orleans’ ‘new buskers’ ie. the young generation of musicians who’ve come to the city and absorbed the age old musical traditions and added their own modern twist. If you read up about HFTRR online there are stories of frontwoman Alynda Lee Segarra leaving New …

Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Alynda Lee Segarra on new album and tour Read More »

    Dark Dark Dark are a phenomenal band from Minneapolis. Nona Marie Invie is the voice you’ll hear on the songs and the interview is with her and songwriting partner Marshall LaCount. They’ve just released Wild Go on Melodic Records, the follow up to last year’s much-blogged about EP Bright Bright Bright. Spell-binding and awe …

Minneapolis band Dark Dark Dark meets The Other Woman to talk about their new album Wild Go before heading out on tour with Low and The National Read More »

    Annabel Alpers aka Bachelorette first came to our attention a year or so ago, when a friend who works at Radio New Zealand pinged some MP3’s over our way. Since then we’ve embarrassed ourselves by approaching Annabel after a gig at Dalston’s Cafe Oto, complete with red-wine-teeth, to babble on about how much we …

One-woman electronic New Zealander Annabel Alpers aka Bachelorette’s new album out now… Read More »

Sound of Rum – Icarus Every week TOW plays two songs for the brilliant Tom Robinson on his BBC 6 Music Introducing show… here are our picks from this week’s show:   Flipping heck. First of all it’s not often you hear someone ‘spittin’ rhymes’ about Icarus… but Kate Tempest does and it’s bloody brilliant. Kate’s …

The Other Woman on BBC 6 Music Introducing with Tom Robinson: new music from Sound of Rum & Barbara Panther Read More »

Every week TOW plays two songs for the brilliant Tom Robinson on his BBC 6 Music Introducing show… here are our picks from this week’s show:   Kool Thing – The Sign Kool Thing were formed in Paris last year – they are Berlin based and consist of an Irish lass and an Australian gal, truly …

The Other Woman on BBC 6 Music Introducing with Tom Robinson: new music from Kool Thing and Jude Cowan Read More »