September

It’s 2001, three Texas boys released a seminal double album based on a poem ode to the end of the world called The Texas Jerusalem Crossroads penned entirely by their frontman Josh T Pearson. And then? Then they vanished. Ten years on and Josh T Pearson has finally returned with his debut solo album ‘Last Of The Country Gentlemen’. Recorded in Berlin, the...

August

Florence is back! ‘What The Water Gave Me’ is a taster of things to come from Florence + The Machine’s as yet untitled second album. Named after the Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo, the track was inspired by the suicide of Virgina Woolf and showcases Flo at her most sinister and dramatic. The song is one of twelve taken from the band’s second...

July

6 August, Victoria Park, London Back for its’ fourth year is London’s hippest festival, Field Day. Taking over the leafy surrounds of Victoria Park in East LDN on 6 August, the festival showcases the best in new and established alternative music cherry-picked by promoters Eat Your Own Ears, Bugged Out, Bloggers Delight, Lan Zanzote. And it’s not just all...

July

‘Cult: A person or thing that is popular or fashionable among a particular group or section of society’ – Oxford English Dictionary. Releasing one of the best debuts of this year NYC duo Brian Oblivion and Madeleine Follin aka Cults are living up to their namesake. The band first ignited a blog buzz a year ago when they started posting songs online and...

June

Alexis Jordan is the shooting teen star on both sides of the Atlantic. Releasing her third single, Hush Hush, from her self-titled debut this month this nineteen year old is not your average teen dream. Singing before she could talk and writing songs at just 11 years old, the South Carolina native was opening up for Smokey Robinson at a Stevie Wonder tribute in...