
Marcus Foster has certainly had a good year this year, with his first E.P. 'Tumble Down' released in April, followed by his first full album, 'Nameless Path', in September. Now the year has been neatly wrapped up with a UK and European tour. Marcus came to Nottingham supported by Son of Eagle and Sam... Read more..

In profile today, the ace Treetop Flyers ! These guys caught our ears not so long ago with their great "Mountain Song" tune which we have posted below for you lucky people to have a listen and download guilt-free ; ) "So who are they? A bit of background would be nice!" Ok, jeez, well here's what we know... Treetop Flyers drummer Tomer Danan was previously in Noo Yoik band "Robbers On High Street" before coming [...]

Well the truly mental Edinburgh August schedule is nearly past and I have to confess that, for the purpose of writing this post anyway, that is something of a relief. This week I am involved in a couple of things - firstly, Thursday's Born to be Wide in the Speakeasy at Cabaret Voltaire, Olaf Furniss's regular night of chat and help and networking and stuff like that. This week I have been asked to put together a playlist of unsigned Edinburgh bands for the Wheel of Fortune. There's something of a grey area in that signed/unsigned stuff, so I might [...]
It's been a cold, rainy and lazy Sunday here in Chicago. The better part of the day I've been sitting here in my room searching for new music in the blogosphere, lurking on last.fm and listening to some pretty mellow and sad bastard tunes. Perfect rainy day listening in my opinion. I thought I would upload my playlist to share with you all. Enjoy! 1. I Can Not Have Seen the Light - Magnolia Electric Co. 2. Won't Be Long - Ferraby Lionheart 3. Wisconsin - Bon Iver 4. My Sympathy [...]

Well the UK based, singer-songwriter week I did a month ago went well with only one problem, there are still lot's of artists to write about so I'll just keep them in the mix for the next month or so. Today though I'm just going to deal with the requests. In particular one new artist (to me) and two updates. The band (or is it a person?) Mr. Bennett ( My Space ) was suggested anonymously by some reader. He's got a deep baritone [...]