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 [...]

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 [...]

Neva Geoffrey’s melodies have come together to form torch songs that take you to the depths of obscurity while remaining in your heart. With a record that emits her journey, you’ll remember the now distanced moods that have once possessed you. The tender in her voice is found weaving through guitar strings, sweeping piano pop, [...]

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will be touring this April in the US with Elvis Perkins in Dearland. In January 2007 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah released their second album, Some Loud Thunder which includes singles, “Satan Said Dance” and “Underwater (You and Me)”.
The Brooklyn and Philadelphia based indie band was unsigned when they released [...]

Muse released Black Holes and Revelations in 2006 and with age, the songs off of the album just keep getting better and better. Each track shines - especially my favorite, “Knights of Cydonia”.
I’ve mentioned before on Trendy Bands, how much I love the track and that I was lucky enough to have seen Muse play [...]

Pull Tiger Tail are set to go on tour and they’ve got play dates planned with bands The Pigeon Detectives, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. and We Are Scientists.
Since playing their first gig in 2006 Pull Tiger Tail have released two singles, “Animator” through Young and Lost Club Records and more recently “Mr 100 Percent” [...]

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 - [...]

Acoustic Ladyland is an avant garde jazz band from England and by their name alone, it’s easy to see that they’re Hendrix fans. Their band name is a fun play on words using the title of Jimi Hendrix’s album Electric Ladyland originally released in 1968, to pay homage.
It’s good to see Jimi Hendrix being respected [...]

The Kaiser Chiefs have done it again, this time with their latest single, “Ruby”. The track is off of the Kaiser Chief’s upcoming album Yours Truly and the single is scheduled for release in the UK as a download on February 12th with the limited edition 7″ and CD single out on February 19th.
The Kaiser [...]

The Oxford based band The Young Knives have certainly made their mark on the music scene - not only here in Oxford but around the whole of England. Now it looks like they’re getting ready to meet the Americans as they are scheduled to play in the states on their upcoming tour.
The first time I [...]