CoolTop20’s In the spotlight: Blake Sonnet
by Lean https://cooltop20.com Blake Sonnet is a singer-songwriter from Canterbury, UK. He’s always on the search for the magic that surrounds us and articulating it into a song. In 2021 he will be releasing a song every month. As you’re about to find out, he wasn’t always known as Blake Sonnet. Can ...
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Interview with Mondo Trasho: ‘It grabs you with its growling guitar intro, with the rest of the band coming in as if they caught up in a speeding car’
Liverpudlian garage surf rock band, Mondo Trasho, is getting us in the mood for summer with the release today (4 June) of their third EP, Pure Trash, giving us three new fuzzed up, riffed up tracks that deserve to played at full volume in the sunshine. The band comprises Jay Muat (vocals and guitar), Chris Demozzer ...
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Interview with Sarah and the Safe Word: ‘We wanted an intro track that would remove you from where you are and let you enter a storybook’
Atlanta-based haunted caberet rock 'n' roll band, Sarah and the Safe Word, who say of themselves, 'Jay Gatsby died, we played his funeral', will give us a new single next month, 'Lost Rings on Riverside', a musical tale of murky relationships and sinister goings on in New York at night. Sarah and the Safe ...
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Interview with Broken Baby: ‘We tried to make ‘Madonna’s a Dick’ as dirty and punky as we could’
LA-based post punk alt rock band, Broken Baby, is riding high on the success of its latest single, ‘Madonna’s a Dick’, which will also feature on a split 7" featuring two tracks from Broken Baby and two from LA female punk trio, Egg Drop Soup, coming out on 25th June. Broken Baby is the musical brainchild of ...
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CoolTop20’s New Release – Sitting in a Room Surrounded by Strangers (album) by Girls Like Mystery
by Lean https://cooltop20.com Girls Like Mystery are a five piece rock band based in Singapore. The band began in Shanghai, where they released their first album, ‘Distance Changes Everything‘ in 2013. When lead singer Kevin Wright moved to Singapore in 2018, Girls Like Mystery played their final China show at ...
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Interview with Stone Dead John: ‘We have really gotten our teeth into it, you want to make sure that all the instruments breathe’
Glasgow-based blues-rock duo Stone Dead John is shining a light on themes such as fragile masculinity, loneliness and rebellion in their debut EP, 'Daydream Under The Tree', out on 1 June. The duo comprises Chris Johnston (vocals, guitar. drums and bass) and Shaun McKay (guitars, synths, sampler and backing vocals). ...
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Interview with Raised on TV: ‘Our next song ‘Helium’ has a Blur/Killers/Strokes vibe, it came out pretty cool’
LA-based rock band Raised On TV is working on its third studio album, Fernando, which is due for release around September. The band comprises Keaton Rogers and his brother Kacey. Raised in the San Fernando Valley in LA, California, the band has gone through many incarnations since its original formation in 2016, and ...
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