August 2012

Guest Edit #64: Jesca Hoop

Wed, 2012-08-29 14:51

Here is a playlist of songs that bring me joy, along with a feature of a song and album and a video

Peter and Kerry - La Trimouille

Mon, 2012-08-27 11:41

Kerry Leatham & Peter Lyons join forces to produce this extremely good La Trimouille album.

Notting Hill Carnival, Sound Systems, and the birth of Jamaican music

Fri, 2012-08-24 12:21

Notting Hill Carnival's abundance of sound systems reminds us that a trend that started 60 years and more than 4,500 miles away went on to change the musical landscape forever

Interview: Fox Jaw Bounty Hunters

Fri, 2012-08-24 12:05

Limerick, Ireland, is a city which is eternally associated musically with local band The Cranberries.

BoomTown Fair 2012: The sights, the sounds, the smashers

Tue, 2012-08-21 16:10

BOOM. What a mind-melting, eye-opening, sparkle-inducing, dirty-dancing, hands-in-the-air-in-a-completely-non-clichéd-way MEGA STORMER Boomtown Fair 2012 was. Listen to the playlist, look at the pics, read the write-up here

VIDEO: The Busy Twist - Friday Night

Mon, 2012-08-20 15:57

The Busy Twist are Gabriel Benn (aka Tuesday Born) and Ollie Williams (aka Ollie Twist), and the two of them have been spending the last three years going between London and Ghana, where they've me