Trendy Bands

We recorded the first podcast for Trendy Bands and I must say we’re pretty excited about the bands and their songs. Excellent music by some pretty cool artists.
Featured music on Trendy Bands Podcast #1 is from both sides of the pond:
* Artist: Beth Thornley (Los Angeles, California)

Track: Mr. Lovely
Beth Thornley on myspace: myspace.com/beththornley
(Beth’s music provided [...]

I just watched the remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and my stomach is still feeling a bit queasy.
I can’t sleep.
So was this movie really based on a true story or what?
Pretty freakin’ freaky. I mean, I saw the original when I was younger and think the remake was pretty damn good for a remake. As [...]

I think it would be fun to find someone who is really ‘anti trendy bands’ and have a good, healthy debate with them to see at which point they’ll break and then become hypocritical for thinking there’s something wrong with trendy bands.
Aren’t all bands trendy at some point or another? Even if a band only [...]

Since Lukas Rossi has won Rockstar: Supernova, now it looks like Tommy, Gilby, Jason and Lukas need to find a new band name. For legal reasons they can’t keep the name as just ‘Supernova’ and are now asking fans to help them out. They still want to keep ‘Supernova’ as part of the name and [...]

The first time that I heard Nouvelle Vague, which according to their website means New Wave in french and Bossa Nova in portuguese, was on David Byrne’s online radio station and immediatly when I heard a girl named Camille singing with her sultry breathy voice covering the Clash’s ‘Guns of Brixton’ I had to [...]

Remember Phil from Rock Star: Supernova? Well if you were following the show then you’ll remember him as the tall singer with model like looks who stayed in long enough to be able to sing Jefferson Airplane’s ‘White Rabbit’ with Jason Newsted on bass. If you were wondering what happened to him [...]

A friend of a friend suggested that I take a listen to this country act that has some connections to Oxford called The Piney Gir Country Roadshow. With the ‘complexity’ of their name upon hearing it for the first time my friend had to write their name down on a crumpled piece of paper so [...]

The thing about having a trendy band blog is that there are so many great trendy bands out there that are worthy of a mention! Myspace is just one great place where you can go to find bands that ’stand out’ in the crowd and for me it takes that special combination of hook, melody [...]

This morning I was having a cappuccino in Georginas which is probably one of the trendiest cafes here in Oxford. They were playing some pretty trendy bands on the overhead speakers as I was flipping through their copy of the NME.
One of the songs that was played was ‘Ooh Las Vegas’ an oldy but goody [...]

The Duhks, who classifiy themselves as “Acoustic / Afro-beat / Folk Rock and Contemporary Acoustic,
Progressive Soul-Grass” on their myspace page have a sound, look and name like no other. If it’s ‘eclectic’ that you’re after, then The Duhks should be at your service and considering their latest release, “Migrations” has just been released, well [...]