TWO Loughborough bands are targeting the charts with new singles. Penfold Gate will be releasing a new track title Pirates on November 30, while Quartershade release Statues on December 14. To celebrate the Penfold Gate release, a launch party is being held on November 29 at The Orange Tree pub in Ward's End, Loughborough. Admission is £3. Drummer Stephen Smith said: "Not only are we playing but we will also be exclusively showing the music video for Pirates . "We are being supporting by the pretty incredible Sheffield electro-poppers Taka [...]

Writing a blog means you get a disproportionate amount of emails giving away free music, some good, some bad, some presented behind an impenetrable wall of PR guff, some with no explanation or justification at all as to why I should listen to them. It's not unwelcome of course, but I rarely get the chance to post a fraction of the music I receive. Sometimes that's because most of the music isn't very good, but more often than not it's because I haven't the time. So, that's where Broken Biscuits comes in. Basically I'll be hoovering up [...]

It is quite remarkable that Los Angeles rockers Red Cortez are unsigned, in fact it makes me want to start a record label and sign them up, I think they are really that good. The band are currently supporting The Airborne Toxic Event on their US tour, so if they don't get signed from that things are seriously wrong. They have a digital EP currently available titled " [...]

Penfold Gate Genre: Melodramatic Popular Song / Powerpop / Folk From: Shepshed, United Kingdom Avast and take heed. [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Beaten Awake : "Coming Home" [mp3] from Thunder$troke (out October 13th) other Beaten Awake posts at Largehearted Boy Castanets : "Worn from the Fight" [mp3] from Texas Rose, The Thaw, And The Beasts (out September 22nd) other Castanets posts at Largehearted Boy [...]

Today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Talking like a pirate is something I stopped doing after the novelty wore off in the twilight of my teenage years. Or perhaps it was because I liked the first Pirates of the Caribbean film and the others were poor. There's still a pirate-shaped gap in my life though and to day I'm going to fill it with Penfold Gate . Penfold Gate - Pirates Emerging from a rollicking rocky intro is a chorus [...]