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GROSS MAGIC
Gross Magic have quickly become one of our favoutite bands of 2011. With their Teen Jamz EP being scooped up by Fat Possum within months of being on the web, we expect huge things from this band. They feature on our 12′ split record with The History of Apple Pie, Echo Lake and Novella. “It’s [...]
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THE HISTORY OF APPLE PIE
The History Of Apple Pie are fresh off tours with The Drums and Male Bonding, THOAP look to keep the 90s guitar band era alive with the aid of woozy girl vocals. Their track TUG a melange of melody and noise as pioneered by Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr and My Bloody Valentine. “Creating a noise [...]
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ECHO LAKE
London quintet Echo Lake have made quiet the name for themselves in a very short period of time. February’s debut EP – ‘Young Silence’ – sold out in days, the accompanying video by filmmaker Dan Nixon reached 100k views in a few weeks, print press caught up with the blogosphere and fell in love, and [...]
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NOVELLA
The three girls of Novella – Hollie Warren, Sophy Hollington, Suki Sou – are fast becoming London’s most ubiquitous band, having bagged support slots with everyone from 2:54 to Dum Dum Girls recently, and their star’s set to shine brighter with today’s news that they’ll join Gross Magic, Echo Lake and The History Of Apple [...]
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Warm Brains
On disbanding Test-Icicles (a day-glo brat punk trio that everyone loved except the band members themselves) Rory Attwell formed RAT:ATT:AGG and later Kasms before becoming London’s most wanted DIY producer. And now he’s turned his hand to a new solo project called Warm Brains. With the exception of a few guest vocals by Roxanne from Veronica Falls, [...]
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WEIRD DREAMS
“With a unique sound influenced in equal measure by David Lynch’s liminal, hallucinatory worlds, and acts as varied as the Beach boys, T. Rex, The Tammys, Syl Johnson and O.V. Wright, not for nothing have Weird Dreams been described as “the most exciting new band in London” RockFeedback Weird Dreams Issued a super limited cassette a [...]
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TOTAL SLACKER
Total Slacker are a Brooklyn based rock band, with garage and Psychedelic leanings. Drummer Ross Condon and bassist Emily Oppenheimer respectively grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico and went to high school together. Vocalist and frontman Tucker Rountree hails from Salt Lake City. It wasn’t until after moving to Brooklyn that they came together as [...]
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THE VACCINES
Formed in June 2010, the band consists of Justin Young (vocals, who previously worked under the name Jay Jay Pistolet, playing indie folk), Árni Hjörvar (bass), Freddie Cowan (guitar, younger brother of Tom from The Horrors) and Pete Robertson (drums).The band was initially formed by Young and Cowan with a third member who soon left. The band released [...]
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NOT COOL
Not Cool are a self proclaimed ‘gutter pop’ band born in the winter of 2008. Incorporating 2/3s of the musical talent from Downham London, they released their debut 7″ on Sleep all day records in September 2009, which sold out super fast. They have been released also on Paradise Vendors Inc/ Italian Beach Babes 12″ [...]
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DIGNAN PORCH
Dignan Porch are brothers Sam and Joe Walsh and friends Hayley, Phillippa and Ben. With their debut album ‘Tendrils’ released on Captured Tracks was widely praised for its song writing and fuzzy production. The band are from Tooting in South London, Tooting is fairly unfashionable and un-cool so the band lock themselves away and make tunes, [...]