I don't know about where you are, but we are having a very mild winter. Not so mild that I should have been eating at outdoor burger joint Shake Shack last night, but I was and is where I snapped the picture that is now this week's cover art. There's lots of good new music on here, including the returns of a few favorite bands. Dig in: DOWNLOAD WINTRY MIX 2.03.2012 Tracklist: 1. Burning Hearts - Into the Wilderness [...]
Those boys from Frankie & the Heartstrings have announced they'll be holding their Pop Sex club night at the Shacklewell Arms, London on Friday 24th February (Tickets go on sale Friday, 3rd Feb.) The band have also announced they'll be releasing the debut 7" from Sunderland artist Ajimal, through their Pop Sex Ltd label. You can listen to the single by heading here .
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Tweet Usually, when I sit down to draft up a post, the first thing I think about is how best to work in a John Cusack reference. Yes, really. Bordeauxxx were very obliging on this front - not that I specifically asked them to be - as the story of how they formed is very much one of ... serendipity . I bet you're glad we got that one out of the way nice and early. How so? [...]
To usher in the new year, London band The Heart Strings are giving us a free download of their track 'New Golden Days' from the album 'Try Fly Blue Sky'. The Heart Strings - The New Golden Days by Grandpa Stan
There is a powerful new voice signed to Arts & Crafts Records (who gave us Feist, Broken Social Scene, Stars, Dan Mangan, The Dears, Apostle of Hustle, and many other of my personal favorites) - and whoa is Cold Specks ever sounding like something to be reckoned with. She's 23, she's from outside Toronto, and listen to this : I have listened to her version of "Old Stepstone" about a dozen times since first hearing about her yesterday, and still, [...]
Frankie & The Heartstrings are a five-piece guitar based rock band from Sunderland, Great Britain. Edwyn Collins (Orange Juice) produced their debut full length, Hunger, released in the UK and Europe earlier this year. The critically acclaimed album stormed the charts with a UK Top 40 entry, a laudable feat for independent music. Hunger sees its US release courtesy of Witchita Recordings tomorrow, November 22, 2011. The US release of Hunger features a brand new song, "Everybody Looks Better (In The Right Light)", which you can stream and listen to below. Overseas, Frankie & [...]
London based synth Funk duo Royalty are gearing up for the release of their sophomore EP, 'Purple Nights'. Their heavy beats and and growling groovy basslines immediately bring to mind comparisons to the kind of Nu-Funk brought to us by the likes of DâM-FunK. But rather that sun kissed LA vibes, there is a London grit to this duo's sound, and urban Funk for those parting in the concrete jungle. Thick retro synth sounds are the order of the day here, pulsating basses, twinkling melodies and reedy pads create something that is a musical journey, at [...]
A band name beamed in from the Caribbean, a South African heritage, a Brooklyn base and a brief sojourn in Liverpool oughtn't add up to the debut mini-album from St. Lucia . Not that this self-titled parvum opus sounds distinctly like anywhere but a nook in time, in nostalgia, in hallucinatory moments in pop that never were. Foolhardily, we'd brazenly suggest experiencing this extended-play in reverse order so that you may fully appreciate its candied majesty, its heartwarming melancholia. Thus dive deep into the gushing, almost tidal spate of Closer Than [...]
The Art Of Noise is back! Did you miss us? What do you mean "no"?! Well I suppose you won't want to listen to the exclusive mixtape Frankie and The Heartstrings made for us then will you? Oh right so now you're interested?! Yes, it's our Art of Noise playlist feature and this time around we've asked Sunderland's finest five-piece to delve deep into their record collection to dig out a selection of tracks that have inspired them to keep it real, made them dance around like idiots or transported them to previously [...]
Everybody Looks Better (In The Right Light) is released on 28th November 2011 and was produced and recorded by Ryan Jarman of The Cribs.
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Tweet Birthday Mixtape - Side B by Soundsgoodtometoo To celebrate the first birthday of Sounds Good To Me Too we've worked with some of our favourite artists and record labels to bring you a Birthday Mixtape . Yesterday we released Side A and today, unsurprisingly, we bring you Side B . Y Luv We featured Y Luv a few months back and are big fans . [...]
It's that time of year again – The X Factor is back! I'd imagine that, as usual, the total number of episodes I'll watch will be a big fat zero. But while the industry trots out the next batch of mechanically recovered, mass produced music substitute, destined to meet its end clogging up a charity shop near you this time next year, it's heartening to know bands like The Heart Strings exist. Inhabiting a world of sunny optimism where even the-morning-after-the night-before is something to sing about ( Nice Hangover ), and one of many [...]
Listen/subscribe HERE Having been abandoned at the helm of the good ship HMCMB, this Fornightly Fix sees a contrary course plotted. New folksy seas are sailed thanks to Bear Driver and the cascading instrumentals of "Enemy". "Set Your Soul On Fire" sees a sample cross the Atlantic, Seattle's Hoodie Allen fueling his flow with the closing line from "Love Lust", originally courtesy of London based King Charles. Plunge to the depths of escapism and you are rewarded with the hedonistic "Heartstrings" before emerging to soak up the glorious carnival that is "Better": Bear [...]
London music collective The Heart Strings recently released their sophomore album 'Flap Your Crazy Wings' which they are selling at a 'name your own price' option on their bandcamp which includes $0. Loving the record! Great classic sounding indie pop album. Just give it a listen and I'm sure you will be hooked. It has this classic feel to it that makes it feel like it's been with us all these years even though it was just released. That's usually a good [...]
Like many Americans, David Serby is very concerned about the economic crisis and the state of his Nation, which birthed the inspiration for his August 9th release, "Poor Man's Poem". A Union Steward by day, the Los Angeles crooner used a bit of his day-to-day experiences admix with American history when creating the 10-track project. Like a historian armed with a guitar, he shares tales of hardships (Evil Men) or personal accounts (Virginia Rail) of love, honor and the right to survive and thrive in "the land of the free and the home of the brave". Serby [...]
Viola 's new song for the month of June is a tender number featuring only vocals and violas as a teaser for the upcoming annual Viola Day show on June 3 which will feature a full set of " Viola and violas play(ing) Viola !" : http://www.violamusicclub.com/ 2011-06-heartstring-theory
Singer-songwriter Suzie Brown is releasing her debut full-length album, Heartstrings , next Tuesday, May 24th. Brown, originally from Boston, graduated from Harvard with a medical degree and did her cardiology fellowship in Philadelphia. She's always found a balance between her passion for music and her academic studies—even appearing in a production of the play Hair while studying at Harvard. WXPN and the Philadelphia Folksong Society Welcome Suzie to World Cafe Live on Friday, June 10th, for her record-release party. Ticket information is here . Download the title song for free and check [...]
A talk with a world class Hungarian classical guitarist who has been performing at prestigious venues in European countries and America in recent years.
I ClubKids ci prendono gusto. Archiviato il debutto sulle pagine di IndieForBunnies (per chi volesse recuperarlo ) di sole poche settimane fa, i nostri non perdono tempo e partono all'assalto di un'altra giovane band UK di passaggio sul suolo romano. I Frankie And The Heartstrings vengono dal profondo nord inglese, esattamente Sunderland e debuttando quest'anno con il disco "Hunger" si sono da subito imposti come 'next big things' dell'indie pop-rock d'oltremanica. L'album interamente prodotto da Edwyn Collins è un brillante concentrato di composizioni pop nel quale emergono distintamente le [...]
Hatsikidee, daar is de derde single van Frankie's fijne debuutalbum Hunger .
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