Guardian Music — Pop those champagne corks for our 1,000th new band. But who to choose for this historic occasion? A bunch of Leicester lads specialising in lush Americana with a dub inflection ...Hometown: Leicester.The lineup: Jake McCarthy (vocals), Rory McCarthy ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Levin said... Omega - Miss World - Minidisk (1994)FLAC Roy Orbison - The Legendary Roy Orbison (1989/2008) Philips Complete Mozart Edition - Box 1. Symphonies CD 5 (2006) Lightnin’ Hopkins - Lightnin’ Hopkins (1959)FLAC Sonny Rollins with Modern ... more info

Abeano — Photo: Richard Onslow at picturesidrewonmyphone.tumblr.com We were feeling Grimey as Jamie XX went in the Mistajam mix with some grime classics and Oliver Jarrett wondered whether Dot Rotten was going to be one of the genre’s new stars. Got... more info

Abeano — London bro-band Hot Horizons (aka Rory and Jake McCarthy) preview their forthcoming EP on Zarcorp with this gentle cover of the Roy Orbison classic ‘Crying’. Don’t worry guys, when you’re indie rock stars you’ll get all the babes. D... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Psychedelic-Rocknroll said... "Forever Changes" - Arthur Lee and the Book of Love By John Einarson 336 pages. Published by Jawbone Press Published 2010... http://psychedelic-rocknroll.blogspot.com Tabayo Yatukishi said... WEIRDWARD HO ! Retro-futuri... more info

Impose Magazine — In all of our fawning over the absolute genius of showing up to an awards ceremony locked inside a plexiglass embryo to distract attention from a new single that is essentially a brown noise, we've forgotten that we've seen all of this before. It was... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — John was born and raised in Glasgow and spent a lot of time listening to his parent’s wide choice of music from Elvis, Johnny Cash to Bob Dylan and Roy Orbison.A move to Manchester in 88 prompted an early interest in the music scene from hanging ou... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Ted Barron said... A Junky's Christmas by William S, Burroughs @ the Boogie Woogie Flu http://boogiewoogieflu.blogspot.com VoodooSeb said... Joyeux Noël / Merry Christmas Black Sabbath - Come to the Sabbath - Paris (1970) (Bootleg download) and mor... more info

Guardian Music — Rick Astley admits he was in his own 'little bubble' when he turned down the opportunity to sing the title track on Pretty WomanIt was back in the day, the late 80s – I can't remember exactly what year but I'd probably had a year or two at my solo ... more info

Guardian Music — The goth siren discusses the dark love songs on her latest album, Stridulum II, and why Nick Cave is an influenceOn writing songs: "Often it starts with a vocal melody, sometimes a drum beat, or even a sound texture. I usually write the lyrics afterw... more info