Interview with The Ruddy Ruckus: ‘We go for something you’d want to hear in a tiny, sweaty club – I want to make those 25 people lose their minds!’
Hamilton, Ontario, garage rock band The Ruddy Ruckus, will bring out their gritty, raucous and thoroughly energizing debut album Wentworth And Main next week (10 September). Starting out as a folk-punk alter ego for frontman Rob Brown, they have evolved into an alt-rock powerhouse with the ...
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Interview with The Islas: ‘With a six track EP, we feel like we have the chance to show what we are really about’
Norwich-based indie rock band The Islas have released their debut EP ‘Oblivion’ today (27 August), marking one of the best EPs of the year and giving us six tracks about love, loss and dissatisfaction that showcase just how different their songs can be sonically. The Islas comprise Nathan ...
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Interview with Listening Club: ‘It hits you straight in the face, it’s sunshine, guitar pop, it’s perfect for summer’
Hull-based pop-rock band Listening Club are gearing up to release four more singles, the next of which will be 'Word I Say' in October. The band comprises Rich Stephenson (vocals and guitar), Matt Davis (keys), Andy Smith (bass) and Rob Taylor (drums). Initially, Stephenson, who is also an audio ...
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Interview with Velvet Starlings: ‘It’s faster and crunchier, a distortion of our beach fuzz sound’
LA-based, neo-psychedelic garage rock band Velvet Starlings, kings of the fuzzy, distorted foot stompers, will bring out their debut album, Technicolor Shakedown, on 29 September. The band comprises Christian Gisborne (vocals, guitar and organ), drummer Foster Poling and his brother, bassist ...
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CoolTop20’s In the spotlight: Interstate Drive
by Lean at https://cooltop20.com Interstate Drive are a Southampton and Portsmouth (UK) based Indie-Rock band. Frontman Cameron Davidson grew up playing guitar and violin, and working in a studio as an assistant. He used to write and record songs in the spare time there, finally forming a band ...
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Interview with Third Lung: ‘For me, it’s about the song, it can be done a million ways’
Reading-based rock band Third Lung is gearing up to release an EP, ‘Dialogues of the Fatal Few’, in November with another single, ‘Climb’, out next month. The band comprises Tom Farrelly (lead vocals), his wife Camilla (lead guitar), Rob (bass) and Sam (drums). Farrelly describes his ...
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Interview with Parliamo: ‘There are lots of songs about a night out but there aren’t many about hangovers, so we thought we’d tap into that niche market!’
Fresh on the heels of their infectious and anthemic single 'Life On The TV', Perth, Scotland based six-piece Parliamo are hard at work on their second EP, 'The Parliamo Manifesto', due out around October. The band comprises Jack Dailly (vocals), Finn Freeburn Morrison ...
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