NEWS: NEON INDIAN RELEASES MINI SYNTH AND ANNOUNCES LONDON DATE
Having teamed up with Austin-based company Bleep Labs, Neon Indian brings you the PAL198X, his very own mini analog synthesiser. If that’s not enough, he has just announced his biggest London show to date and will be playing Heaven on Wednesday, November 16th. Whizz kid Alan Palomo has put together this tongue-in-cheek, retro video or “synthfomercial” called ‘Step Into the World With Your PAL198X’ demonstrating the musical potential that this small... Read More
LIVE: CRYSTAL FIGHTERS – 15/09/2011
– SOUND CONTROL, MANCHESTER – It has been a while since I walked into a gig half way through the support act and immediately thought this is good…no, this is great. And glancing across at my partner in crime for the evening, she too is nodding along in complete agreement. I would like to say ‘you heard it here first’ but if you are reading Silent Radio, chances are, you will already have heard Clock Opera. I shall certainly be investing in their first... Read More
NEWS: COLD SPECKS – NEW SINGLE STREAM AND LAUNCH SHOW
Recorded at Monnow Valley Studios and mixed at Sub Bubble, the single features tracks ‘Holland’ and ‘Old Stepstone’ and will be available on 7” and as a download. Cold Specks have announced a single launch show at The Lexington on day of release. Cold Specks is 23-year-old Al Spx from Etobicoke, Canada, who now lives in London. Describing her sound as ‘Doom Soul’, Cold Specks’ music is steeped in the musical traditions of the Deep South. No wonder then that Al... Read More
NEWS: MY MORNING JACKET – NOVEMBER TOUR
My Morning Jacket released their sixth album ‘Circuital’ in early June. The album was greeted by across-the-board reviews heralding the album as one of their best and went top 5 in the US and top 20 in the UK upon its release. Following a performance at their sold-out show at Somerset House in mid-July, which was the subject of a 5 star review in the Independent, My Morning Jacket have announced a 6-date UK tour for early November which includes a London Roundhouse... Read More
NEWS: MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS – NEW SINGLE ‘RADIOACTIVE’ ANNOUNCED
The 25 year old Greek/Welsh singer-songwriter has been very busy over the past few months working on the follow up to her critically-acclaimed debut album The Family Jewels. She’s also been touring the USA with Katy Perry. And now Marina has joined forces with pop-producing duo Stargate to release the end of summer track ‘Radioactive’. The song is a stopgap until details of her forthcoming album are revealed. The lyrics are unmistakeably Marina, but with a new sound more... Read More
NEWS: LOS CAMPESINOS! – NEW ALBUM ‘HELLO SADNESS’ RELEASED 14TH NOVEMBER
Hello Sadness is the imminent fourth studio album from Los Campesinos!, recorded earlier this year in Girona, Spain. Hello Sadness is ten songs of love, loss and heartbreak nail-gunned to a back- drop of broken, tangled bodies, creeping, dead-eyed animals, suffocating, looming shadows and World Cup exits. It is an honest, bare-bones documentation of breaking up and trying not to break up in the process. A record whose complexion changed dramatically when, on the eve of recording,... Read More
NEWS: BETH JEANS HOUGHTON – TOUR, VIDEO AND SINGLE STREAM
With her debut album now set for an early 2012 release on Mute, Newcastle psychedelic pop Artist Beth Jeans Houghton and her band The Hooves Of Destiny will be warming up for the rest of the year with a set of live dates and a very special, non-album release. The first fruits from the album, download track ‘Dodecahedron’, available since 18 July, has garnered much attention and was playlisted on Radio 1 (BBC Introducing slot) that same week. To celebrate her... Read More
NEWS: GHOSTPOET REMIX OF FOE’S ‘DEEP WATER HEARTBREAKER’
– FREE DOWNLOAD – Having both featured on Entrepreneurs ‘Fuck Tactics’ earlier this year, GhostPoet now turns his attention directly to FOE, with his remix for new single ‘Deep Water Heart Breaker’. Applying the same low-fi minimalist style which earned him a nomination for this year’s Mercury Awards, GP takes the song somewhere far less noisy than the original. Read More
LIVE: BRIAN WILSON – 13/09/2011
– BRIDGEWATER HALL, MANCHESTER – After decades of playing huge capacity stadiums and open-air festivals, it seems the creative genius behind The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, has discovered a penchant for smaller venues. At Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, with an audience of just 2,300 fans, it is something of a novelty to see him perform close up. Touring the UK in support of his excellent covers album, Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin, the singer-songwriter-keyboardist... Read More
LIVE: SCOTT MATTHEWS – 12/09/2011
– BAND ON THE WALL, MANCHESTER –Scott Matthews, a relatively unknown singer-songwriter is back on the ‘ole wagon’ to promote his third studio album ‘When The Night Delivers’. Having only heard the track ‘Elusive’ which propelled him into the lime light – although maybe not enough. I signed up to my first ‘session’. consequently, I then proceeded to listen to all of his albums, several times over. He can easily be compared to the likes of Nick Drake... Read More
