INSTANT payday loans online We write the the year " 2013 " on the headed title for this post because this is the fourth consecutive year that we've thrown BLOG UP at The Great Escape Festival , and we hope to see many more in future years. Once again we return to the best festival for emerging music in Europe, which lands on our doorstep in Brighton, from May 16th to the 18th. Together with our sponsor, Music Robot , we've [...]
Today's recommendation is so fine that he had us questioning what music itself actually is. Is it just a sequence of sounds? Is it just a process of rhythms? Are melodies just noises tapped out in an arranged series? Are harmonies just wavelengths that sound nice? How can a chain of vibrations become music? More poignantly with today's artist, how can some people suggest what is and isn't music? Without many traditional instruments in sight, except for keyboards plump with samples, here is a new male solo artist making truly enjoyable music almost solely from looping sequences. We'd love him [...]
same day payday loans There's an enormous stack of electronic pop duos around. We get emailed a new one every week it seems, but few make the grade. You can take Eurythmics as the starting point and meander through various successful reincarnations ever since, but it's an understatement to say that most miss the standards set by Lennox and Stewart some thirty years ago. So what is considered a good and bad standard? What is it that lifts something from just being that [...]
Reading music blogs is an absolute must for anyone who likes to discover new music for their collections, but you knew that already. Today we deliver an artist that we discovered on the award-winning music blog, Crack In The Road . They are a collaborative music discovery service that stormed the music blogging scene in the UK like a freshly painted steam train back in 2010. Founder Josh and the gang have also just confirmed that they'll be sharing a showcase with The Recommender, My Band's Better Than Your Band and Killing Moon , hosting a [...]
People know The Recommender as a ' Brighton blog ', associating us with the city in which we live. Although the first time anyone came across our blog was online, our brand is now known in our local city due to us taking The Recommender into the real world, via us hosting gigs, writing for local culture magazines, networking in this city's vibrant music circles, and even appearing on local radio shows. However, our first home is found on the Internet. It's not that we want to disassociate with Brighton - those that know this city will tell you that [...]
Sometimes we could keep things a lot simpler. Want a one-line review of today's recommendation? OK, meet the British version of Real Estate . There. We. Said. It. But that's not our style is it? No. We prefer to divulge a few informative facts, a sprinkling of context, a dollop of adjectives and our own meandering commentary to compliment our recommendations. For those who care, read on, for those who don't, well, you can race to the bottom and simply click play on them there Soundclouds. Either way, you're going to enjoy this band. Keebo [...]
This is a story about protecting your independence. About doing it the way you envisioned. Ultimately music is art, so it seems to fly against it's ideals when a big record label executive starts to tell you what you think your vision should actually be like. You can hear the meetings in the boardroom, " what I think Dixon is trying to say ", or " you know what Dixon needs, a haircut and some backing singers " etc. Is there anything that can kill art quicker, or that can stifle independence more forcefully, than outside forces choosing to control [...]
This band will be an interesting one to watch. There are clear pathways that new bands should look to take when searching out success and this group seem to be confidently striding in the right direction. Emerging artists and their managers regularly ask us here at The Recommender how they can get noticed and ultimately signed. Now we don't pertain to be any official kind of artist consultancy, but from now on we might just point out this band as a good example in how to find traction. Paint The Dark are a trio from [...]
We are only ever going to evolve music when people start ripping up the rule book. It is at the fringes that the most interesting, exciting things happen, right? It's only those people that are fearless enough and smart enough to walk their own paths that will ultimately uncover genuinely new ground for the rest of us. Today's recommendation seem to fit this ideology well, and we for one are going to wonder with them a little while, see where this path takes us. Welcome to the crazy world of Halo Halo , a new London trio [...]
If we provided this music discovery service purely for other music bloggers, then there would probably not be much point in recommending this band. Although other music bloggers do indeed make up a significant chunk of all music blog traffic (still tiny compared to the rest), and we openly admit to adoring our online brethren, we actually write this instead for the insatiably hungry public. Whoever you are, if you haven't heard of Mitzi yet, then you are sure going to thank us. Mitzi are a Brisbane quartet that are all set to spread beyond their [...]
The Recommender has a contributing writer, called Olivia, who is based in Austin Texas. Naturally she becomes our covering insider for the giant, annual music festival, SXSW, each year. Unfortunately a turn of fate has found Olivia currently living in London whilst the March festival is in full swing. This leaves our blog without a roaming reporter. Until now that is. We are finalising negotiations - we promise to buy their first ten beers - with the editor of another UK music blog and underground record label, Killing Moon . Achal Dhillon is a friend of ours and confirmed [...]
Moods and atmospheres are nothing new in instrumental music. Of course when Brian Eno firmly established ambient music on his famous Music For Aiports album - a concept born from Eno being stuck in an actual airport, surrounded with nothing but the tense, uninspiring sound that befits those vacuous spaces. This new ambiance did however make popular modern music seem as though it had travelled a long way from the days of Robert Johnson 's guitar, or Fats Domino 's piano. With today's moods often formed inside computers, the endless [...]
It's February, so we're suitably distanced from it now, but do you mind if we declare that we FUCKING HATE Christmas songs. Even more so when we discover them several weeks after Christmas has actually finished. It's like bumping into that one-night stand you pulled a few days after the shambolic, drunk fumble you embarrassingly rummaged through a few nights before. Christmas songs regularly ruin Christmas for us. From that Noddy Holder mess, which is dragged onto the floors of Christmas discos like the drunk, saggy-skinned granny that it is, to the more contemporary attempts at cashing in, [...]
Welcome back to The Recommender. Did you miss us? After a temporary hiatus, partly enforced due to a severe and unexpected computer malfunction, but also partly volunteered so we could ride out the endless waves of blog lists that swarm the online world through December (end of year lists) and the start of January (2013 ones-to-watch lists). We're starting 2013 with a serious contender for the best discovery of the year. Yep, we think she's that good. Welcome back. Welcome back to your favourite rambling tipster. We return with a delivery of pop. Pop is something of a [...]
SOLOMON GREY - FIRECHILD MØ - MAIDEN DAVID BYRNE & St. VINCENT - WHO BRETON - EDWARD THE CONFESSOR NICHOLAS DESAMORY - MOVE YOUR ASSETS [...]
ONRA - L.O.V.E ODDIENCE - YES SIR SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS - SECRET DAYS AEIOU - VIVIMOS IN LA NIFE - CHEMICALS [...]
CLOCK OPERA - MAN MADE PURITY RING - UNGIRTHED MSMR - HURRICANE KILO KISH - NAVY GHOST LOFT - SECONDS [...]
FOALS - INHALER GOLDROOM - FIFTEEN (feat CHELA) NIGHT ENGINE - I'LL MAKE IT WORTH YOUR WHILE FLUME - WHAT YOU NEED DOE PAORO - BORN WHOLE [...]
As we hit the last few days of 2012 so starts the annual round up of blog content. Today we re-visit the finest videos of 2012. This isn't a comment on the music, but the vehicle in which they're delivered. Ever since it's humbled 80s birth, which saw Buggles ' debut single, Video Killed The Radio Star, upon the new channel they called MTV, we've all enjoyed an ever-increasing collection of music videos year on year. The list is in no particular order, but every entry is noted for being outstanding. They have to be to shine [...]
The long list for the BBC Sound Of 2013 poll was announced today. Cue lots of good, healthy, pub-style debate about new music and anyone with an opinion can now wade into a discussion about who should have made the list and who shouldn't. The blogs organised their own similar parallel list last week, ( which you can see here ), and this year sees lots of unexpected crossover. The Recommender is in the fortunate position of being able to vote on both polls, but please don't blame us for any similarities. You would think that [...]
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