We are never short of new tracks here at The Recommender. Our noses are highly trained for those truffled tunes as we willingly rummage our noses through the world's various music scenes.You will hopefully appreciate the spoils of our tune-farming and see this in evidence below. It's worth tipping our thanks to Austin too, as the SxSW blog-obsessed festival of new music came to it's conclusion. We now find ourselves at the floodgates as they open and the hype hurriedly comes pouring through. Many rumours are bouncing around about who managed to shine and who disappointed. It is indeed a good time to be a blog. [...]
Got one for the Brighton students here. It's only fair, as a growing section of The Recommenders fans are based at the Sussex University. And so as the clocks finally turned forwards and we welcomed in our long-awaited Spring season, the months in which it sits continue to bring us a fantastic selection of great gigs, many of which will be found at the multitude of Brighton's upcoming festivals. We have one of those festivals highlighted below, alongside an awesome gig sitting proudly all on its own... UNIFEST 2009 [...]
With the SXSW having showcased a billion bands, with just about every new band from both sides of the Atlantic, plus a few from further afield, the blogs are queueing up to jump on the following wave of hype. A decent showcase at the Austin party can bring a tsunami of interest, so we at The Recommender are poised to find plenty of great new acts in the coming weeks and months. In the mean time we've a trio of new bands listed below to slide under your radar... BEAR [...]
The South x Southwest Festival's musical party burst into existence in Austin, Texas last week and the annual buzz machine has been super busy amongst our fellow bloggers. It's a bright and enthusiastic time of year for those into new music, as the stories and tales from the multitude of performances seep through to us. If you're there you can't possibly get around to seeing everyone and if you're not there you will inevitably be left to follow any blogged scraps as they appear. WINTER GLOVES [...]
Photo by Rony Alwin These guys would normally have got themselves a proper Recommender posting, but we reserve that main section for new bands with debut material on the whole. This " 'How Good Is This..." section is a smaller post generally kept for those things we find that we love so much we simply cannot resist informing you. PHOENIX are a Parisian 4-piece who are definitely no set of debutantes, having produced 3 studio albums and one live album to date, but their latest work is so sublime and right on the [...]
Welcome back ya'll. I've plucked out a handful of vibrant artists for your pallet's pleasure. Don't forget there's always the comments section to leave your opinions. We'll always check them out and try and respond accordingly. Don't be shy now... MASTER SHORTIE If Hip Hop twists with rapid-fire lyrical shots are your thing then this fella's gonna be all you could need for 2009. Here at The Recommender we will freely admit that we're no experts on the Hip Hop scenes, generally focusing on the [...]
We love our home city of Brighton, really we do. Here on The Recommender, we mostly cover music from any of the global scene's around, but on occasion we have the chance to look no further than our pebble-covered shoreline to locate the buzz of exciting new music. And so it's with a slightly different edition of The Gig List today that we proudly bring you... THE GREAT ESCAPE FESTIVAL That buzz is currently at ear-splitting levels with the recent announcement of the line ups and dates of our annual new [...]
Looking back over recent posts, we realised that we've been so stuck into our 'How Good Is This ' and ' Gig List ' sections, as well as that enjoyable Q&A with Marina & The Diamonds , that we haven't managed a true Recommender post for some time. So it's away with the distractions and back to the biggie now with three newbies that we've recently fallen in love with. In ten minutes time, once you've checked them for yourselves, you will too... TWO DOOR CINEMA [...]
Photo by Rony Alwin THE REMIXES - PART 3 - DISCOTECH The first edition of 'The Remixes' was all about the best Bloc Party remixes , of which there's been billions to date. It was soon followed up by our remix-packed post all about the kings of the blender, Soulwax . Well now we are turning to post number 3... We've got a bright, young, good-looking bunch for you today. It's all about the plentiful locker of remixes by none other than DiscoTech . The latest pretenders to Soulwax's throne. They've been super-busy in recent months pumping [...]
Q & A - MARINA & THE DIAMONDS If you don't know this solo female songsmith quite yet, then prepare any available room between your ears as she's going to be living in there very soon indeed. She's currently attracting a level of buzz most artists dream about, with slots as a featured artist on both Radio One and Radio Two, amongst the inevitable busy blog chatter. This is all after [...]
February has been one set after another of interesting bands and DJ'sand this seems to continue to the month's end and into March with these two fantastic, fresh artists. Both are from wildly different genres, showing what eclectic taste Brighton can happily cater for. Both are innovators breaking through so catch them now to see where their respective genres are being taken... THE HAIR Never before have a band popped so neatlyinto my Indie comfort [...]
Photo by Rony Alwin I simply had to post this track up. These two female solo artists are white-hot in the UK scenes right now. We totally adore them here at The Recommender, so it is with mucho pleasure that we can throw this dream collaboration out at you lovely people. It's a V V Brown tune, but remixed by none other than Little Boots . It's less of the usual V V Brown Doo Wop swing and more of the darker Little Boots sound. What a team. [...]
Going to visit some big, big players in this post. It's still contemporary stuff and packed full of quality so you should be able to absorb plenty of lovely Recommender energy, it's just that some of you will already know these guys. We have to give everybody their slot on The Recommender and nobody deserves their pop more than the following kings... SEBASTIAN Looking back through the now plentiful Recommender archives we can't quite believe that we've never posted about this fella before! [...]
February has picked up a fair few gig highlights in Brighton already with Late Of The Pier, Wild Beasts and Elbow due to play, as well as the NME Tour hitting town. An amazing blend of tastes, ages, styles and clout for the circuit to showcase for Brighton's lovely residents. Here's a couple of fresh listings that should also be well worth making note of... DAS POP I cannot stand Alphabeat . Really. They're the [...]
It's been a while since I listed a Brighton band on here and being from the greatest of UK cities for new music it surprises me it's taken this long between posts. Suffice to say, I am plumped up and encouraged to be able to list not one, but three Brighton-based recommendations on this post. The other weekend I found myself out on the piss with two of the below bands and for a group of people making such spiky, punked Indie music, they're a actually a bunch of very lovely folk indeed. This Brighton-themed post will therefore be dedicated to Laura, Elliot, Tim [...]
It's all about the tunes in this recommender. The artists listed are from three different genre's, but all have provided us with a slice of brilliance. Sometimes its the strength of the artist, or the collection of songs from a band or DJ that pushes for their entry on The Recommender, but with these guys it's taken a single mighty song to earn their places. Click the links to find out more from each and see what other golden pieces you can uncover... POCKETKNIFE A single tune [...]
We have a real clash of cultures on here today as we confidently straddle two totally opposing genres. One is a mystical fantasy and the other is all about colourful bling. I guess you should expect this on a post about gigs in Brighton's wide spread of tastes and shades. Both are awesome and refreshingly vibrant artists worthy of your well-crunched wages... BAT FOR LASHES A magical, dreamlike beauty to behold, this Brighton-based songstress, (also known [...]
We just want to indulge you, (and ourselves at the same time of course...), with a little video that shows up the camp madness and brilliance of one of the best bands around, TV ON THE RADIO . We adore them here at The Recommender like they were made solely for us. We need them like a heartbeat. Their music is outstanding and their most recent album, Dear Science , was definitely one of the best of 2008. [...]
I think it's time to ask yourselves - why do you keep coming back to The Recommender? I'll tell you why. In fact I've got three reasons listed directly below... MARINA & THE DIAMONDS Have you got an obsession for anything currently? Want one? Look no further than Marina Diamond (real name). As previously mentioned in The Recommender 18 , 2009 will belong to the female solo artist. I know we had Lykke Li and Adele in 2008 and all, [...]
A real quickie here - just wanted your delectable opinions on these two Rolling Stones remixes that are surfing the blog world... The first is a new one that's floated past recently by the remix masters Discotech THE ROLLING STONES - SATISFACTION ( Discotech Remix ) ysi [...]
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