Rosie Tucker has shared their cover of the one and only Jeffrey Lewis’s ‘Arrow’. Already a live favourite, Rosie has released a recorded version during the lockdown as the song’s themes are fitting to the current situaton we’re all living in: ‘For me, it’s a song of disassociation, born in the uncanny space where the…
New York-based singer-songwriter and visual artist Joanna Sternberg has always lived a life surrounded by music – from humming the entire melody of ‘Oh What a Merry Christmas Day’ from Mickey’s Christmas Carol at just 2 years old to piano lessons at the age of 5 and learning guitar and bass at 11. Their education…
Following 4 years spent focusing on releasing bands via his Super Fan 99 Records label, Uncle Luc (aka Luke Barham) makes a most-welcome return with the 8-song album ‘Sticking to the Rules’. ‘Plateaux’ opens the record with some ‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’ guitar strums and Luke singing the words ‘Don’t look back’ over and…
Ahead of shows with No Age and Jeffrey Lewis and their debut album ‘Left Hand’ (out in June on Upset the Rhythm), Glasgow’s Vital Idles have unveiled a stream of ‘A Premise’. Combining elements of anti-folk with Life Without Buildings-style riffs and an almost spoken-word delivery from Jessica Higgins that takes in everything from thinking…
When you receive an email about an act who has written a song inspired by Seinfeld’s pilot episode, your interest is peaked. When you look further into the act in question and find out they’ve also had music featured on Adult Swim and in Lena Dunham’s ‘Tiny Furniture’, you know they might be something quite…
Signed to Super Fan 99 Records, we had high hopes for Matt McKee, especially as the press release referenced the likes of Evan Dando and Elliott Smith. When we were lucky enough to see Matt at the recent all-dayer at Aldershot’s West End Centre, we were mesmerised. Soul-searching songs and self-depreciating wit, the whole crowd…
New York City has always been the epicentre of cool for music. Every band dreams of playing there and anyone who has been to the Big Apple will tell you that you can’t help but be drawn into the sheer energy and excitement of the place. However, as Scott Pilgrim taught us all so well,…
Ben Parker, formerly of cult favourites Nosferatu D2, went on to perform as Superman Revenge Squad, an acoustic act with a wry sense of humour, heartfelt lyrics and a great line in self-depreciation. Now, he’s expanded this project into The Superman Revenge Squad Band, which finds his gentle tones and minimal strums backed up by…
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