Rock music under threat as small venues go bust across Britain The Guardian One of Edinburgh's most popular small music venues, it has been the launch pad for bands from the Scissor Sisters to Kasabian who played here before they became stadium-sized acts playing to stadium-sized crowds. Yet this will be its last summer as the ...
New band of the day – Alt-J (No 1275) The Guardian Reviews have spoken of the band's "innovative and electrifying musicianship", their "exemplary songwriting", "creatively ambitious lyrics" and "captivating blend of insatiable grooves and profound poignancy". They have proclaimed the music... Review: Alt-J - An Awesome Wave [Album]Altsounds.com
Anna Elias And The Forlorn Hope: The folk tinged group touching the transcendent Cross Rhythms Anna Elias is well known on the Leeds music scene for fronting mainstram art pop band Bodixa. Between 1997 and 2006 Bodixa (sometimes known as Star*Bodixa) worked steadily and released four EPs and a full length album which won them an enthusiastic ...
It's time for Britpop's Bright Young Things to take centre stage The Independent It's more that reliving the music of my youth in a near-perfect battle re-enactment was starting to give me a hollow feeling. It's not just the personal feeling of wallowing in nostalgia; the endless run of Nineties resurrections, ever-diminishing in ...
Pigeon Detectives' Matt on his love for Leeds music scene Gigwise (blog) "The live music scene in Leeds is amazing. It's definitely eclectic because you can go out any evening and watch a folk band or a heavy metal band so there is always something for everybody. The other great thing is that it has a DIY outlook so there ...
May's Up-And-Coming Band Feature: Blacklisters WhatCulture! We have three other releases: “Swords” out on Best Enemies, a local label that puts out some really cool Leeds bands like Double Muscle. That was our first recording and was a 7” that has a couple of early versions of two of the songs on our album and ...
Memorial Day 2012 events scheduled across Western Massachusetts MassLive.com “We are very proud of her,” said Timothy Anderson, director of the Minuteman Marching Band at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where Harper was a drum major, leading and conducting students in the band. “She is absolutely terrific.
Music interview: Human League Yorkshire Evening Post “He was very passionate about the group and the music and not wanting to lose the name.” Oakey was then in a spot after Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware, the Human League's original synthesiser players, left to form their own band BEF (later Heaven 17).
2:54 Is Hitting The States And Living The Dream Prefixmag An unexpected side effect of this process is that some of the bands are actually pretty good. Take for instance, Hannah Thurlow, who, with her sister Colette, started the band 2:54. The duo posted some videos to the Internet and then recruited a rhythm ...
Post Newsletters & Alerts Washington Post (blog) “The Music Man,” A con man turns his life around by convincing a small town to battle trouble caused by a pool hall with a boys' band. Through June 6, Arena Stage, 1101 Sixth St. SW. $46-$91, subject to change, based on availability. 202-488-3300.
