ALBUM REVIEW – CAITY BASER: STILL LEARNING

Sweetly scathing and swift with a verse, Caity Baser epitomises the new age of whistle-stop pop. Her ‘Still Learning’ mixtape plays out every almost romance, delicate decision and reinvention of spirit with witty abandon; entire expanses of thought all in under three minutes a piece. Angelic vocals turn into acidic rap on a dime – […]
York band Bull have announced new single ‘Green’ to celebrate signing to EMI Records. The band and EMI are working alongside Young Thugs, a York based record label that releases, records and promotes music from the North of the UK. Bull were formed in 2011 by vocalist and songwriter Tom Beer and guitarist Dan Lucas […]
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YORK BAND BULL UNVEIL NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO ‘GREEN’

INTERVIEW: TONY WADSWORTH CBE (BIMM BOARD MEMBER/FORMER EMI RECORDS CEO)

This week BIMM officially opened in Manchester; a Hacienda inspired music school, with backing from the ex-boss of EMI. I chat to some of the key players behind the centre, to find out how they’re planning to deliver hot new talent into Manchester’s world-renowned creative scene. With well-known schools in Dublin, London, Brighton and Bristol […]
Laura Marling’s first album, “Alas I Cannot Swim” was an impossibly brilliant debut. Released just after she turned 18 her lyrics combined a delicate shyness with a world-weary maturity that spoke of things with a level of understanding that few people reach in their lifetime, let alone while they are still in their teens. The […]

ALBUM: Laura Marling: I Speak Because I Can

ALBUM: Corinne Bailey Rae -The Sea

One thing that struck me when watching the Brits is how much of this awful pop-pap-r&b gunk we are spoon fed is not so much sung as shouted by whatever latest overdressed, overhyped bint some major has so delightfully delivered unto us.  And then you putThe Sea into your CD player, hit play, and you realise there […]