Lady Lykez – Not Your Hair Lady Lykez is a firecracker of an MC from north London: young, sassy, funny, quick fire rap stylings, a massive talent. TOW ‘hearts’ this girl (as the kidz say) and can’t wait for her to accomplish big things. This release of Not Your Hair is the remix featuring Lady Leshurr, more »
March 25, 2012 – 11:52 pm
This Week’s Fresh Faves as chosen by you, our readers, from a field of 27 strong contenders. You can see who picked what on last week’s Listening Post. These tracks aren’t “better” than the other 16 – they’re just the Eleven that you (and we) happened to like the most. They’re listed isted below in alphabetical order: more »
Dear Fresh on the Net followers. We pride ourselves for being on the cusp of breaking news on new music and we also like to keep a keen eye on what is happening in the world of film and indeed student activities. After secretly being sent a video preview we felt compelled to share with more »
March 20, 2012 – 11:06 am
Citi Petts – Love in a Riot Well this tune just automatically puts a big smile on our dial. Pumping electro pop with a great little vocal riff. This trio from Liverpool are fronted by big mouth Lizzie O’Neill, discovered at a house party dance off (er, can we come next time?) the two boys more »
By Ruth Barnes
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Tagged Amazing Radio, Bristol, Citi Petts, electropop, Fruits de Mer, Hi Fiction Science, Liverpool, Lizzie O'Neill, Love in a Riot, Private Sorrow, rock opera, Ruth Barnes, S.F. Sorrow, Saint Signal, Sorrow's Children, The Other Woman, The Pretty Things
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March 19, 2012 – 10:52 am
This Week’s Fresh Faves as chosen by you, our readers, from a field of 26 strong contenders. You can see who picked what on last week’s Listening Post. These tracks aren’t “better” than the other 16 – they’re just the ten that you (and we) happened to like the most. Listed in alphabetical order: ALEX more »
By Tom
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Tagged Alex Lipinski, Bernholz, Bon Arrow, Fresh Faves, Kevin Pearce, Mayflys, Sam Beeton, Si Senor, Thank Pablo, The Chaplins, Weird Shapes
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BBC Introducing: Fresh On The Net has been broadcast on BBC Radio 6 Music every week since 28 October 2008 and will end on 2 April 2012. It started out as a single 120 minute show that went out every Saturday night from midnight (technically Sunday morning). In June 2008 it was expanded to two more »
SUE DENIM – The Plan Sue Denim is one half of electro indie rockers Robots In Disguise, with Dee Plume they’ve garnered something of a cult following. Appearances in The Mighty Boosh have helped them along and, of course, a string of excellent albums – culminating in Happiness v Sadness last year. Sue’s solo project more »
Listening carefully through our Listening Post this weekend, my ear was drawn to “The Blind Side Of Love” by Jupiter Falls – aka Steff Lane – because of its squidgy synth groove and a hookline which stuck in my brain like one of Shaun Keaveny’s earworms. The trouble was that by the time it finally more »
By Tom
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Also posted in Music Tips
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Tagged Brian Eno, David Bowie, earworm, Hiraeth, Jacob Yates And The Pearly Gate Lockpickers, Jono McCleery, Jupiter Falls, Liam Lynch, listening post, oldschool, Shaun Keaveny, Steff Lane, The Blind Side Of Love, The Clash, United States of Whatever, White Riot, Zun Zun Egui
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VAGUE-À-BONDE – MV This little slice of pop loveliness is from V.A.B’s debut release Involution/Evolution which is out now. Nicole Brenny is a 23 year old bedroom producer from Minneapolis, she says: “It’s beat-driven bedroom pop. It’s basically Fleetwood Mac meets K-pop.” Whatever it is it’s catchy as hell and we’re a fan of the more »
By Ruth Barnes
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Also posted in Current Listening, Music Tips
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Tagged Amazing Radio, bedroom producer, French, Ghost in Saturn, Minneapolis, New Music, Nicole Brenny, Ruth Barnes, Sunday evening, The Other Woman, The Other Woman Music, tips, Vague-A-Bonde
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It’s only week two of our new online “Fresh Faves” feature and we were overwhelmed to receive almost fifty tracks in just a few short days. Thanks to everyone that got involved and picked their favourites from that batch to create our second ‘Most-Liked’ list. The quality was incredibly high and some artists that really more »