Simon Pursehouse (Director of Music Services at Sentric Music) The glut of recent news stories surrounding the financial woes of HMV, the UK's last remaining high street music store, clearly demonstrates a change in consumer habits. Physical format is out, save for a few luxurious niches, digital is in. Streaming and downloading dominate the way that the majority of us consume music in 2013. The…
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THIS 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: MAN ON THE MOON Man on the Moon is Arvid Lizell from Stockholm,Sweden and he makes lovely homemade indie folk music. There is something blissfully beautiful about the music of Man on the Moon,its got that warm & toasty feel I speak of so often. Its charming,gentle & endearing but not overly twee,more a natural sound that invokes a mindset of yet to be…
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