I know a lot of things, not all of them interesting. But what I do know a lot of interesting things about is music! I could write one hundred things I know but you'd be bored and let's face it, I'd probably still be going "and oh yeah" at #1,142. So let's leave it at a do-able ten. Because I do waffle on, and on,…
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Scrolling through Spotify sometimes, and I mean SOMETIMES! you come across a few gems and Korean K-pop singer/producer Sumin is one of those shiny cool gems. With her debut album Your Home released in August and thousands of streams across YouTube and Spotify, Sumin is well on her way to becoming the next breakout superstar from the K-pop scene and she was gracious enough to…
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Seamlessly blending influences from jazz, Afrobeat, Indian classical and Ethiopian roots with shades of minimalism and a refreshing, forward-facing attitude, the waves Collocutor maestro Tamar Osborn has been making ripple over several scenes, with her music resonating with jazzual club culture as well as jazzheads immersed in their 180 gram pressing collections. Playing Baritone, Tenor, Alto and Soprano saxes in addition to flute, clarinet and…
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So it’s the fourth and final edition of this blog series which has been such a joy to write. Thank you so much to the superhuman Steve Harris who has coordinated all the work taking place on Fresh on the Net (as indeed he always does) and to Tom Robinson without whom this wonderful resource would not exist in the first place. Part Four looks…
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It is said that the language of music is universal, accessible and understood by all; a language that conveys emotions and moods that creates a bond between people and unites them — “Freude, schöner Götterfunken” (Joy, beautiful spark of the gods), across nations and borders. That’s all well and good. There is some truth in that, but such sweet praise for the music leads me…
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As one of the moderators on Fresh On The Net, I have the opportunity of listening to 150+ songs every week. It's a task I cherish, sometimes there are moments of great discovery. Magical moments where the world stops, and I breathe deep, and enjoy! Being the first person to hear a writer's brand new creation is a genuine privilege. The opportunity to put these…
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In the past few months there's been multiple stabbings across London and the main word being thrown around is UK Drill. With the current negative media attention surrounding the UK Drill scene (which is the adopted child of grime and UK rap), I wanted to look deep within this genre to see if there was a glimmer of light and maybe a change in direction…
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The first two editions of Emerging from the Mist focused on a range of bands and artists involved in areas of new music. Part Three focuses on singer-songwriters who are on the cusp of wider success and attention. In this case though, we are talking exclusively about female singer-songwriters. In keeping with the style of Emerging from the Mist, I have chosen a group of…
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The first part of Emerging from the Mist focused on five contrasting artists and bands drawn from across the [broadly] pop music spectrum. All of these had submitted tracks to the Fresh on the Net uploader in recent times. But we also get a genuinely wide variety of genres coming into the inbox. Occasionally these even include some contemporary classical and leftfield music. Lately there…
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Here at Fresh On The Net we’re not exactly on the look out for the next big star — we’re just as happy to hear something that’s delightfully uncommercial as we are things that could headline festivals or rank up a gazillion plays on Spotify one day — rather, we just listen, and if we what we hear, we put it out there. North London artist Ruby…
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