These Fresh Faves were picked by our readers over the weekend - and reviewed by Fresh On The Net's Raphael Doyle this week. You can hear all these tracks in a single Soundcloud playlist here. BALLERINA BLACK – Blueish Grey Intriguing hints of Joy Division, The Cure and OMD ripple around in Blue-Ish Grey. Love when the lush soundscape stops dead for a long, teetering…
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Soundcloud moderation page for our Fresh On The Net dropbox Have just spotted the following comment by Barrie Jones: Hi Tom + team Freshnet. Apologies for communicating about this via the comments section, but my browser doesn’t seem to recognise the email link. We sent a track to the Freshnet dropbox, it was the last batch, #50. Of 31 in total ours was the only…
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It’s Monday and once again it’s time for our weekly ‘Fresh Faves’ round up. As ever we’d like to give massive thanks to all the artists who submitted their tracks and to all the Fresh On The Net listeners who dropped by to hear them. This week it’s also somewhat of a special occasion as Fresh Faves celebrates its 1st birthday today, hooray! So don…
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Another week, another installment of the Fresh Faves which our loyal readers singled out over the weekend on the Listening Post. Much appreciation to each and every artist who submitted their lustrous recordings making it nigh impossible to pick and choose the best of the crop. Cracking on then, let's hear it for the bands featured in Batch 49 of the Fresh Faves: ABIGAIL HUBBARD…
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Man alive, what have you guys been eating? Well whatever it is, keep at it as the resulting noises spewed forth from your respective orifices has been nothing short of incredible. Seriously, we had a hell of a time trying to whittle the original list down for the listening post, so good people, we salute you. Anywho... you, the discerning public have now cast your…
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Another week, another bumper crop of great independent music springs forth from the Listening Post. Thanks to all the artists who took part this week and made my job easier by writing great music and - to the other artists on this weekend's Listening Post - we very much salute you. Here are your Fresh Faves, Batch 47: AMY SPENCER - Reverie To start us…
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Notes on this week's bumper crop of Fresh Faves come from new team member and blogger Simon Jones from Rumbles And Grumbles. To see all tracks, click Read more » BURNING CONDORS - Honey Trap Is this blues, rock, punk? Genres can be so misleading. What this is is a grab you by the ears and not let you go track, from the opening drums…
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Thank you once again to all bands and listeners for your contributions this week. This feels like the most eclectic bunch of tunes yet. Here are your Fresh Faves number 45... BENJAMIN JOSIF - The Border Benjamin calls this his Mexican border song and whilst not quite like norteño superstars Los Tigres Del Norte this does conjure images of desert, refried beans, sangrita and dust…
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Well its big ol’ week on the Fresh Faves front with no less than 14 tracks being included. This surely is a bonus for everyone involved, especially me as I get to find out a little more about each of the chosen many, as opposed to just listening and deciding if I like them or not in the Listening Post stages. So without further or…
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Our Fresh Faves are reviewed this week by Jim Craigen from AlternativeFriday.com An excellent and varied array of music made up the 30 tracks in the Listening Post this week. All these tracks had strong support over the weekend: big thanks to everyone who took the time to listen carefully to all the tunes and pick their five favourities. These are the 11 most-liked tracks,…
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