Artist: Spell Hound

You might remember I've been curating a weekly witchhouse/darkwave radioshow. It's almost the end of the season, but that hasn't stopped me from looking for the freshest producers; and if there's one bandcamp label I can count on, I'd have to say it's Aural Sects . I don't know how they get in touch with so many bros but they're putting out multiple releases per week, most of them of the no payment variety. Anyways, last week I checked them out and came across Spell Hound , a duo from Kansas City, MO who recently released [...]

Yesterday I visited BBC Radio Manchester, at the impressively futuristic Media City UK in Salford (which, when lit up at night looks just like a spaceport), to tip some bands for the coming year. The show goes out on Sunday night, so I can't tell you which bands I staked my flimsy reputation on yet, but needless to say it was a uniquely stressful half-hour - not only because I was suggesting who might 'make it', but also because I was asked to comment on the state of the modern music scene, and where it was [...]

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