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Growing Grassroots Music with C.MON
I’ve never felt like as much of a music discoverer as I did when I stumbled past C.MON busking on a lakefront in Queenstown, New Zealand. Of all the… lakefronts in all the world, y’know. C.MON is the musical pseudonym … Continue reading
The Top 5 Bands We Discovered in 2011
2011 was an exceptional year for new music. I’ve loved all the bands we’ve found on here, but these are the ones I’m most proud of: The Static Jacks: I tuned into New Jersey’s The Static Jacks and their debut … Continue reading
St Lucia: Brooklyn hipster beats that SA should be proud of
Sometimes you’re flying so metaphysically high that when someone turns some new music on, you all but think they’ve cracked the cosmos open. And then you come down somewhat, realise the cosmos was just a haze of caramel vodka and … Continue reading
To the Mountaintops of indie pop with Mates Of State
BREAKING NEWS: Portugal. The Man and Vampire Weekend have had a lovechild. And it’s running a synth-filled riot all over San Francisco (and on into the rest of the forward-thinking USA) in the form of Mates Of State. Mates of … Continue reading
Samiam: perfecting the Californian sound since 1988
My music choices like to burn me occasionally. I came upon what I thought was rather a rocking new gauzy guitar-filled, Californian band. Samiam sang with a youthful exuberance that feels like it comes from yesterday, not yesteryear (or even … Continue reading