Trendy Bands

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 [...]

The Waterboys will be releasing their latest single, “Everybody Takes a Tumble” on March 19th in the UK. The single is off of their new album, Book of Lightning, out on April 2nd.
Mike Scott has been playing music in the folk, celtic and sometimes rock style Waterboys since 1983 when he formed the band. After [...]

Cool band alert! The Blood Arm is a rockin’ band from LA, and their sound travels far - at times eerily reminiscent of Scottish band Franz Ferdinand, who happen to be fans of the band…and wow these guys have rocked my socks off. The best way to listen to The Blood Arm’s “Suspicious Character” single [...]

When I first heard “Shine On” by Jet I immediately thought of Oasis during the chorus of the song. Another observation that I’ve made is that sometimes when I see Jet’s lead singer, even though he looks nothing like him, there’s just something about Nic Cester that reminds me of Bono from U2. These observations [...]

Unsigned band Latonic is set to release their latest single, “Twisted Devotion”, available for download on February 12th. This will be the second release for the Glasgow based indie-rock band.
After having success in the UK Independent Charts with their debut single, “Turn On The Sky” back in October, it will be interesting to see how [...]

After all of these years, Dolly Parton has still got it. She is certainly one of the best singer/songwriters ever with over 3,000 songs under her belt, which have included classic hits like “Jolene”, “I Will Always Love You” and “9 to 5″. Now she has a World Tour planned and is quickly selling out [...]

Just when you might be starting to wonder what 2007 has in store for new releases and tour dates - surprise, surprise Willie is coming to a town near you!
I think Willie Nelson will be playing music until he can play no more, and I highly recommend attending one of his live shows while he’s [...]

There’s been quite a buzz lately about the Glasgow based indie pop band The Dykeenies. I can’t say enough about the quality of bands that have been coming out of Scotland lately - particularly Glasgow. The Dykeenies have just released their debut EP, “Waiting For Go” on Lavolta Records. Featured on the EP is lead [...]

This morning started off pretty good - with my coffee in hand I turned on the tv to find Little Man Tate’s video playing for their latest single, “Man I Hate Your Band”. Believe it or not I hadn’t heard that song until this morning and their raw bass driven indie punk sound, along with [...]

There must be something in the water in Glasgow, Scotland because there has been some incredible music coming from up north. We’ve been lucky to have played Glasgow based bands Dieselbone and The Hussys on the Trendy Bands Podcast, and now fellow Glaswegian band The Fratellis have been making more and more of a [...]