This has been a long time coming, but today I've got 2 CDs worth of amazing summer music. The first disc is more folk based in keeping with last summer's mix , with the second less folky but just as perfect for the summer afternoons in the sunshine. We have a few of the bands that were on the last mix popping up again, but most on here have not been featured on TBW before. As I've been out of the game for a while, some of these have been around for a few months, and then [...]
After quite a few days in the sun I am just catching up on my inbox, maybe more later in the week but for now news on Small Crew. They have a rare gig in London coming up, only their third I think. "Here's a little bit of pop news: That elusive international combo Small Crew will be making their first live appearance of the year in London, England on May 26 th . Details: Dead or Alive presents Small Crew*@ The Comedy Leicester Square 26.5.09 [...]
I recently got an email from Richard at Small Crew and somehow I managed to convince him to write a musical piece and name it after you dear reader. That's right, Small Crew who brought you the fantastic It's Not Too Late To Wait and more recently Rambling have agreed to write a song and name it after you or your home town if you prefer. What a prize. Depending on the creativity levels when they come to record it will either be an instrumental piece named after you or it will be a song with you in the lyrics. [...]
Having posted It's Not Too Late To Wait in last month's playlist I was excited to receive two new tracks from them in my inbox this month. As a band in their infancy Small Crew appear to be exploring their musical influences and Rambling takes us down a new path for the band. I'm certainly not going to try to pigeon-hole them at this earlier stag so I'll leave you to listen to the track and make up your own mind. However, I will have the other track and some exciting news for you next month. So if [...]
Here's quite an unusual version of that Kate Bush classic, Running Up That Hill . The Danes from Spleen United played it together with their friends The William Blakes at a Danish music show. Good one! Spleen United with The William Blakes - Running Up That Hill (MP3) Seattle band [...]
Small Crew are from Armenia according to their MySpace site, I'm not sure that's true, I hope it is but judging by the singer's accent when singing I'd guess their from the UK. They site their influences as "New York, Manchester, Stockholm, Dusseldorf, London, Los Angeles, Oxford, Glastonbury, Montreal, Glasgow, Melbourne, Boston, Sheffield, Dresden, Liverpool, Philadelphia, Tupelo , Hull." I wonder if they are describing the home towns of their influences? I'd guess that Sheffield would be Pulp and Hull would be The Beautiful South? In fact you could describe this track as Paul Heaton [...]
This is the first time I'm introducing a band from Armenia on this blog. Small Crew knocked on my MySpace-door, and I'm happily letting them in. And since they're offering two very nice and catchy indie-pop-songs for free, I thought I'd share them with you. There's hardly any info on the band's site other than the country of origin, so I let the music speak and urge you to listen to it. New music is in the making, according to their latest blog entry, so you might soon read a bit more about the [...]
I realize that I've generally been in the habit of reviewing full albums (or at the very least a substantial amount of tracks from an artist) rather than just singles. There's a good reason for that: I don't like writing really short posts if I don't have to. Not to mention it's sometimes difficult to judge an artist by one or two songs. However, lately, I've come to the conclusion that some singles deserve a proper public airing, especially as they fill my inbox with aural euphoria, so I'm going to start a semi-regular series that showcases these singles independent [...]
Noah and the Whale to play the Entry, new "Making Music" shows announced & a pair of local music videos released
Und gleich nochmal Indiepop in Perfektion - die Small Crew stellt auf ihrer Myspace-Seite 3 neue Lieder zum Download bereit, von denen besonders «Kamikaze girls» wieder sehr sehr schön geworden ist. Link zur Bandseite bei Myspace MP3-Download Small Crew «Kamikaze girls»
FREE MP3 DOWNLOADS: SMALL CREW- BOXING DAY SMALL CREW- GETTING UP GIITTV singles club releases "Boxing Day" and "Getting Up" free double a-side single available on www.godisinthetvzine.co.ukf rom the 26/12/07 In its third digital release the GIITTV singles club (an offshoot label of the cult music/culture webzine www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk) releases the double A-side "Boxing Day/Getting up" from beat combo Small Crew. Released as a free digital download on Boxing Day itself (so you won't forget what it's called). http://www.godisinthetvzine.co .uk/content/content_detail.php ?id=2145&type=Fea... [...]
Jaysus, why do people have to write such heart-achingly beautiful music? Some nights I just don't think I can take it. You know how it goes, right? It starts in a small, dark corner of your heart, where you think it can't do any damage, and then it slowly expands and before you know it, it's taking you down a well-worn path that you don't want to go down, but what can you do? You're a prisoner to the chords and the melody and pretty soon the fight goes out of you and you relent and then it's too damn [...]
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