“This song ‘Half-Crazy’ could be described as the tenacious offspring of the North African desert music of Mali/Morocco, and the sweat and electricity of the Chicago and Mississippi Delta blues,” says vocalist Brad Barr. “That music is like a stem…
https://soundcloud.com/itsxing/fate This track certainly has pedigree. XING’s lead singer is Jack Moore, son of Thin Lizzy’s Jack Moore, while his friend Dhani Harrison – whose dad is some guy called George – also features. That’s interesting, of course, but what’s…
If yesterday’s unusual Song of the Day was not to your taste, this one might be. Pure melody with hints of psychedelia it should soothe your aches and pains away. The track ‘Secret Beach’ comes from Stockholm quintet Alexandria’s debut…
This video comes to us from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, so it’s no surprise that it’s a little out of the ordinary. The track from Brittany Karlson won’t be to everyone’s taste with its diversions into atonality…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7bpaB9gGCM Ahhh, well this is just tremendous. The new Octopuses video shows Adam Bell from the band reminiscing about an appearance on a Top Of he Pops-style show in their imagined 1980s heyday. And it’s great. Bell says the new…
Australian duo Tulane are Nikki Malvar and Nikk Retalic. It would take a will of iron not to remark on the fact their names are very similar and, sad to report, For Folk’s Sake does not have a will of…
Swim Mountain, a four-piece from London, have their debut album coming out next month. This lead track from it, ‘Yesterday’, feels like a perfect slice of summer pop to us, though, so you’d be well advised to listen to it…
Lily & Madeleine are back! If you don’t know why that’s exciting then you simply haven’t been paying attention, because we’ve been banging on about them for ages. It seems absurd that the sisters could be on to their second…
If you’re going to cover a song called ‘Mexico’, you’ve got plenty to choose from. There’s the Staves, obviously, there’s James Taylor and there’s Jefferson Airplane. We applaud New York singer and oboist Emily Mure though for her choice of…
Some music begs you to listen to it and says thank you for doing so all the same time. This new track from Iceland’s Rökkurró does exactly that. It’s quite startling in its warmth and its invention, without ever feeling…