January 23, 2013 – 2:07 pm
Dear Pariah – So Close The Divide Charlotte Hinchcliff is Dear Pariah a London based singer, songwriter and musician with a voice that will honestly send shivers down your spine. If not, well then you’re soulless I’m afraid ;) Originally from Somerset but now based in the big smoke, Charlotte’s donned her mantle as she more »
September 11, 2012 – 2:30 pm
Woodpecker Wooliams – Sparrow Woodpecker Wooliams says she’s just ‘titting around’, we beg to differ! Some serious music making is going on here, the result being the debut album The Bird School of Being Human out now on Robot Elephant Records. Gemma Williams is a Brighton resident who sings, composes and plays, well, everything frankly: more »
Natalie McCool – America We’re big fans of young Widnes guitarist and singer songwriter Natalie McCool, signed to Grammy Award winning producer Steve Levine‘s label Hubris Records. Writing gorgeous big pop ballads that reveal a mind and musical sensibility far beyond her years, inspired by our favourite TV show Game Of Thrones (listen for the more »
Seaming has a massive voice. In fact the British-Chinese singer is operatically trained and boy can she play piano. This track Sodaslow (sipped) is soaring, otherworldly and frankly fantastic, she’s playing some shows live soon with her Mum, that’s how she rolls. At 1’22″ it’s goosebump central.
Andi Dvorak runs Viennese label Fettkakao which is an absolute gold mine of interesting leftfield music from Austria. First discovery is Plaided, a duo Veronika and Julia whose first album Playdate is just out. The pair got to know each other through organising Ladyfest Vienna in 2005, they say that all the motivated people in more »
Rebecca Jade – Well Rebecca Jade is a Welsh guitarist and songwriter living in London and, lucky for you, she’s just released her debut album The Distaff Muse. This video was made by shouting out to followers on Twitter who were each featured alongside one line of the song. It’s charming, DIY and completely suits more »
Mevrouw Tamara – Leiden Musician Adam ‘Finglebone’ Varney often sends tips our way and when he does they’re always a winner. Take Mevrouw Tamara for example, guitar picking Amsterdam native who makes beautiful simple folk music singing her in home tongue. The Guardian got in touch after she was featured on The Other Woman and more »
Pisces – Voodoo Sarah Negahdari is the guitar-toting frontwoman of LA psych-rockers Happy Hollows who themselves have a new album on the horizon but more on that later. This is her side project, more whimsical folk and psychedelic than what she does with HH, Pisces is what you’d get if you stripped back the noise more »
Gaggle – Army of Birds Gaggle are an all-female alt choir led by songwriter and arranger Deborah Coughlin. They’re signed to Transgressive and their debut album From the Mouth of the Cave is out next month. It’s hugely gratifying to see this genre and boundary defying group of singers get the attention they deserve. Already more »
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THE OTHER WOMAN: why 2013 is for the girls
It’s high time we here at The Other Woman stood on our soapbox (er, beer crate) and triumphantly punched the air. It seems 2013 truly is the year of women in pop. Some will scoff at this statement and cite the last ten years as an excellent decade for women in music but that is more »