Trendy Bands

Robyn is a Swedish singer just coming on to the UK scene, and her latest single, “With Every Heartbeat”, (a collaboration with Kleerup) has been going around my head for days. She reached number 1 in the UK charts this month and I can hear why [...]

There’s quite an uproar surrounding Calvin Harris‘ UK contest “Merrymaking at Your Place” where Calvin is attempting to set a new world record for the most house parties happening simultaneously across the country than ever before. The event is set to take place on Saturday, August 18th 2007.
The contest has caused an absolute media frenzy [...]

Greasy twang, driving rhythms, a sense of melody and brevity contribute to a sound that draws on influences from the entirety of rock and roll’s storied history. This is The Bosch, a New York City quartet who sounds something like what might happen “if Brian Wilson, Dick Dale, and Joey Ramone [...]

Vandaveer is the town-folk, city-pop, solo song and dance routine stated for the record and committed to tape by one Mark Charles Heidinger. In recent seasons this Mark Charles character traversed the mighty American highways spreading golden pop rock cheer and debauchery as principle singer, songwriter, hand-clapper and chorus-yelper for The Apparitions. Where The Apparitions [...]

I’m always on the lookout for a female singer to come on the scene and ‘wow’ me and I think it’s just happened with Liverpool based singer Candie Payne. Her latest single, “I Wish I Could Have Loved You More” due to be released on March 12th has an old 60’s pop feel that quickly [...]

The more I listen to new band on the scene Ghosts‘ latest single, “Stay the Night”, the more I like it. With the release of “Stay The Night” coming up on March 19th, this breezy indie pop song has a very summery feel. It’s almost too bad it wasn’t released closer to the summer, but [...]

The Shins new single, “Phantom Limb” is the first release off of their third album Wincing The Night Away. The Shins, originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, are now based in Portland, Oregon. They’ve released Wincing The Night Away not only via Sub Pop Records in the US but also through their new UK label - [...]

After all the waiting to see if it was really going to happen, Koopa - the pop/punk band from Essex, England is officially the first unsigned band to break into the UK top 40 charts. They entered the charts at number 31 on Sunday with their debut single, “Blag, Steal and Borrow”.
With the new UK [...]

Recently I received press information regarding the benefit Cd Rhythms Del Mundo. The album features collaborations with members from The Buena Vista Social Club as well as other current top selling bands and artists like The Arctic Monkeys and Jack Johnson.
I’ve been a fan of The Buena Vista Social Club for a few years now [...]

Fall Out Boy recently caught my attention when they released their latest single, “This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race” in November. They’ve written a very well put together R&B pop song with a twist - unlike Fall Out Boy’s usual rock/pop/emo sound.
I never thought that they would one day be producing a song [...]