While listening to this new, typically idiosyncratic single by cosmic eccentrics Super Best Friends Club, I found myself split down the centre, psychologically speaking, until the two predominant aspects of my personality were standing in the middle of the room, facing one another down and shouting. Well. One of them was shouting.
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Caro Emerald has the songs and the star quality to be the next big thing.
Young Knives were have just finished playing at Norfolk Spectacluar and we thought you’d like a free musical treat from them right here!
White Label have moved from the wash-room to the recording studio and made a reasonable attempt with Stolen Voices
This 4-piece Belfast based band have supported The Wombats, The Pigeon Detectives and The Enemy. In 2008 they were invited to play at Reading & Leeds festival as part of the BBC Introducing line-up.
These guys are always coming up with new great stuff! Flashguns debut album on 17th October!
Ideal for relaxing as the sun goes down or crooning in your ears as you wander aimlessly through the woods. If wandering aimlessly through the woods is your thing.
If Barn Owl were a blues or heavy rock band they’d be howling out despair and misery in a gut wrenching, soul baring way. Should there have been lyrics featured, Barn Owl would probably not sound too dissimilar to Led Zeppelin, Muse or Pink Floyd. Yet as it stands Barn Owl have instead created a subtle and gorgeous tribute to far away, desolate space dessert with a mountainous terrain and difficult climates which of course you as their audience are welcome to explore and enjoy.
Funky, fun and deliciously tapping-of-the-toe.
Urban surgeon Pangaea returns with a pair of moody, precisely-engineered bangers, and they’re pretty darn tasty.
Austrian drum and bass wünderkinder Camo & Krooked drop their eagerly-awaited debut album on Hospital in just a couple of months time, and we were lucky enough to hear a sneaky preview.
After their superb performances at Reading and Leeds, Funeral Suits is a band you need in your lives!
The pair have managed to, in a bid to become more serious, lose their sense of mischief.
Welcome to Mixtape Monday by Mark Green. Have we seen the last of summer? Certainly not here at NEN, London was sunny, and what showers that dared show up were dealt with a trip to the pub. Need a soundtrack for all this? well we recommend this one by Mint Julep, a peaceful calming track [...]
As someone who avoided the noughties pop/punk/emo trend like Ghaddaffi dodging Tomahawks, I have to say I was a little reticent about the idea of there still being remnents of the ‘Blink’ influence in 2011 (I have been known to swear at DJs for playing My Chemical Romance and walk out of clubs after hearing the first bar of a Panic At The Disco! song).
New song now streaming, ahead of her album release.
I guess this album is essentially like a ball pool full of kids. Fun, energetic and raucous but in a controlled environment so that no tears are shed and everyone gets to have a good time.
His teens were spent sparring with her and getting up to all manner of small town trouble!
Who: Wildlife What: Guitars, bass, drums, synths, keyboards and harmonies from Toronto Formed by Ontario college friends Dean Povinsky and Darryl Smith in 2005, Wildlife’s early days were spent traveling and writing in the UK. Following time in and around Glasgow playing shows with musicians met along the way, the project returned to Canada. Joined [...]
The second-to-last weekend in June may never be the same again…
His teens were spent sparring with her and getting up to all manner of small town trouble!
