Every week TOW is lucky enough to pick two songs for Tom Robinson’s brilliant BBC 6 Music show, the spot goes out every Monday morning at around 2:30am.Pick 1 – Jenny Bjorkqvist – To Heal Your Wounds Jenny Bjorkqvist is from Sweden. If, like me, you are constantly astounded at the quality of pop music that comes out of …
Listen again to Mira Calix – her playlist with her inspirational tracks is below. Except Twin Sister, that’s ours… TOW Mira Calix 200110 by ruthbarnes *Twin Sister – I Want A House – Vampire With Dreaming Kids (Twin Sister) *Clifford & Calix – In Her Room – Lost Foundling (Aperture) *E.S.G. – You’re No …
Every week TOW is lucky enough to pick two songs for Tom Robinson’s brilliant BBC 6 Music show, the spot goes out every Monday morning at around 2:30am.Pick 1: Trash Kit – Cadets Pet hate: Music journalists using the phrase ‘spikey guitar’. Why? Because it’s usually referring to some two-bit indie skinny jeans boy band who are …
Madam – aka Sukie Smith (I am never 100 % sure which way to put that round… her name is Sukie Smith, she sings and plays as Madam) is working on a new album. Photo by John Lee BIrd Hoorah! Last night I met Sukie for a ‘coffee’ which turned into two pints on an …
Every week TOW is lucky enough to pick two songs for Tom Robinson’s brilliant BBC 6 Music show, the spot goes out every Monday morning at around 2:30am. Pick 1: Lucius Lucius are two women making music in an old music school in Brooklyn. The story on their myspace reads as every young wannabe musician …
“This is the future!” shouts one enthusiastic fan at a recent Divorce gig in east London. I was there watching the uber-loud, uber-shouty five-piece from Glasgow and had my hair blown back by what felt like an industrial-sized bad-ass hair dryer. Sinead Youth’s vocal stylings make my throat ache in sympathy. The 20 year old (yes, 20) …
Rayzaflo is from Jackson, Mississippi and she makes phat rhymes. Yup, there’s nothing sadder than someone like me trying to get down with the kidz and the flow. So I am going to stop. This young rapper is no doubt going the same way as Rye Rye who we fell for in 2008. The young …
Vuk is a Finnish-American force of nature, who says “the pump organ is a very underrated instrument”. But of course! Her second album Plains is out now and I missed her perform at Barden’s Boudoir a few months ago. Darn it. Vuk, is mainly the lady in the picture with the fox on her head. Ah-hem. She …
Click on the player and you will hear Nina Nastasia’s new single ‘You Can Take Your Time’. I first met Nina Nastasia in 2006. She was over from New York playing some shows in London supporting her then new album On Leaving – her first for Fat Cat Records. John Peel was a massive …
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