THIS WEEK :YOB yoB (with a capital B) is a Songer Singwriter from Hackney,London. For the whole of 2013 at the end of every month he will releasing a free piece of music. Limited to 200 downloads with the overall project being called the Year of the yoB. With songs that cover heartbreak, paternity leave, make-up and immoral support. #YearoftheyoB. (more…)
Read MoreTHIS WEEK: ORDINARY NOISE Ordinary Noise are a 4 piece indie band from Colchester - namely Lou Terry, Ross Connell, Malachi Siner-Cheverst and Jonny Poole. We are all about new music here at Fresh On the Net and they don't come much newer than Ordinary Noise. In fact they're so new that only a couple of weeks ago they just won their Sixth Form Battle Of…
Read MoreTHIS WEEK:FOLD Based in Leeds, Fold are a live downtempo / trip-hop 4 piece consisting of founder Seth Mowshowitz on synths & samples, Kane Rattray on drums, Ben Walsh on bass and Josh Gardziel on guitar. They integrate speech into music in experimental ways in order to reflect some of the more difficult truths of the world. I think they are wonderful & confess to…
Read MoreTHIS WEEK : SONS BETWEEN GUNS Sons Between Guns are a duo from South East London making electronica with a tinge of folk & a splash of indie.To be honest its hard to pin them down to any particular genre and its all the better for that imho. This is music for the soul with sounds for the heart thrown in for good measure. (more…)
Read MoreTHIS WEEK: ATLAS Atlas is Sarah Hezen, a French bedroom producer and singer/songwriter, based in London. I first heard Atlas on Paul Lester's Amazing Radio show and was instantly smitten with the beautifully gentle @ heartreaching vocals backed by smart leftfield electronica that bleeps,trips & gurgles in all the right places. My gut tells me Atlas will be breaking out of that bedroom & moving into living…
Read MoreTHIS WEEK:VINNY PECULIAR Vinny Peculiar is a songwriter/poet based in Manchester - with an acute pop music sensibility running through his work. It's as if he's logged all the best bits of 20th and 21st century UK culture, distilled them at Gas Mark 6 for a while, and then re-imagined them in the form of a shapely new song. There's something familiar and trusting in…
Read MoreTHIS WEEK; BYE POLAR BEARS Bye Polar Bears is the project name for an anonymous musician, writer and producer based in Wiltshire. I think his biography explains this so much better than I could do in a month of sundays:- It started when not gigging or recording, jobless and skint; the music is a specific style, electronic, acoustic, pop, folk it's all in there. Its either a…
Read MoreTHIS WEEK: ROSE BETTS Rose Betts is a singer/songstress based in London Town. And what a great pianist,songwriter & singer she is. Its my humble opinion that her song Dreamland would be praised to the roofs across the lands if it was Regina Spektor's latest single so why shouldn't we praise it anyroad up as its that good! New talent right here with fine work,worthy…
Read MoreTHIS WEEK : LIZ LAWRENCE Liz Lawrence is a singer/songtress based in East London. Songs come to you in lots of different ways,through the radio,YouTube,Soundcloud,from friends suggesting them,family members discarding them or a thousand other ways. We are very lucky on Fresh On The Net to have songs come to us through our Soundcloud Listening post so we can then ask you dear readers/listeners to have a…
Read MoreTHIS WEEK: MR BIRD Mr Bird is musician/DJ and producer Steve Bird - originally from Newcastle and now based in sunny Lisbon in Portugal. He has been co-running two record labels - Master Press Recordings and Heavy Duty Booty - and has just started a third - Fat Bird Sounds. Steve also has an album coming out early next year on BBE Records with UK…
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