Animal Noisewere featured by Johnno in last week’s inaugural Prick & Ding feature. Their song Run Loose sounded pretty good and was enough to send me to the BBC Introducing Uploader – where their song Baddow (below) blew my socks off. It’s a wonderful piece of music – played from beginning to end with such fresh, more »
From: Claire Kennedy Date: 7 May 2012 11:59:11 GMT+01:00 To: Tom Robinson Subject: The Lights by Rebecca Mayes – please!!!! [no message) ———————————————————— From: Rebecca Mayes Date: 7 May 2012 12:17:26 GMT+01:00 To: Tom Robinson Subject: The Lights by Rebecca Mayes Dear Tom Robinson, My name is Rebecca Mayes, I’ve submitted a track to BBC more »
Supertalented – Cheesecake is the Best/ Scanner Supertalented is Noa Kurzweil and friends: they make short, weird, lo-fi pop tunes about, well, cheesecake and potatoes and things… Weight Watchers and Plus Size are the two albums she’s released on netlabel Birdsong and every song is shorter and sweeter than the next. Their tag line is: more »
So you’ve made a recording you’re really proud of, whether it be a single, EP or album, this is your best work to date. Now the only problem is getting people to listen to it. The good news? In the UK right now there are more avenues for promoting new music than ever before. From more »
Over the next few weeks I’ll be looking at how to get set up online, avoiding the pitfalls and making the most of your time in cyberspace. This will be familiar to many of you but no harm in starting at the very beginning. It is easy to get caught up in the addiction of more »
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Each week Fresh On The Net invites Artists & Bands to answer a short series of questions in our new feature – Prick & Ding: the 2 ½ minute interview (convenient & quick like cooking a microwave meal) ANIMAL NOISE are a 3 piece indie dance band (with a balearic twist) from Colchester, Essex. We were very more »
Janine and the Mixtape – Bullets WARNING: THIS WILL GET STUCK IN YOUR HEAD FOR DAYS. It’s the voice (take note The Voice TV show fans – this is how it’s done) and one hell of a hook. Janine Foster fronts Janine and the Mixtape: she sings, writes the songs, produces, plays synths, sorts out more »
“I’m homeless… I’m penniless… and I’m hungry for success” voted lyric of this week’s Listening Post favourites by, well, me! Donna Fullman opens her gorgeous track Restlessness with this line that I reckon speaks for us all. Click the Read More link se see & hear all 12 tracks in alphabetical order. Here we go…. more »
Have you ever heard an album for the very first time that exactly fits the mood you are in? I was lucky enough to have such an album come my way in this last week from those lovely people at Folkwit Records that is so enchanting,beautiful & beguiling it has not been off my stereogram more »
By Charlotte Krol Guest blogger & Friend of Freshnet Yesterday BBC Radio 1 released figures from the BPI and Official Charts Company that show a 25% decrease in CD sales from 20.5 million in the first three months of 2011, to 15.3 million this year. Digital sales are instead increasing and account for almost more »