Tag: First Look
First Look: All This Noise – Ghost Shirt
When I interviewed All This Noise a few months back it was a real treat. There latest track at the time, "Seven Billion Like You" was a constant hook from start to finish. I...
First Look: Tall Poppies – Heart Palpitations
East London based but with Australian roots, Tall Poppies are an alternative indie four piece who have played all over the world. Matching neat, melodic indie pop with darker, creative notions, Aussie twins Susan...
First Look: Bassman75 – Jamaican Grind
Based in Switzerland but with a career that has taken him all over the world, Bassman75 is a hugely successful musician, producer, writer, entrepreneur and model whose next single is set to take the...
First Look: Rhett May – The Violence of Ice
Primarily influenced by the classic song writing of John Lennon, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, Rhett May is a rock writer who has molded his own sound over several decades in the industry....
First Look: Orca – Amber
A five piece band based around the South East of England, Orca are a new band looking to make waves in the UK prog scene. With an album on the way soon, the band...
First Look: Lola Lamour – Are You Looking For Love?
Lola Lamour is the first to admit she is behind the times. In fact, she says she might as well be living in the past – she has always been “influenced by vintage styles”,...
First Look: SinFiction – Ugly Baby
An Oxford based band who specialize in lush indie rock with great production value but a gritty feel, SinFiction are ready to rock this summer with double single releases ‘Painted Memories’ and ‘Ugly Baby’.
With...
First Look: Neil C. Young – Bolo
Being a guitarist myself I have a personal monument to the Jazz/Fusion genre even though my background is the likes of Eddie Van Halen and Steve Vai. But I have seen in countless interviews...
First Look: Rumboy – Stay
Rumboy is an exciting new concept from soft spoken troubadour Jay Thackery. Rumboy explores all the essential elements of pop rock, and subverts and presents something new, fresh and exciting.
Rumboy has been playing in...
First Look: Olivia Shafique – My Music
Getting ready for the release of her very first single with upcoming track ‘My Music’, Olivia Shafique is an artist with all the tools to make a big mark on the music industry. With...
First Look: The Spitfires – 4 AM
The Spitfires new single "4 AM" is a little different than your average song these days. The song starts right off with the hook, which instantly grabs my attention. The I realize, the whole...
First Look: Nova Twins – Bassline B*tch
The new video for "Bassline B*tch" sums up everything great about these two girls from Lewisham and Grays. With no big budgets to waste on bad ideas, Amy and Georgia kept everything live and...
First Look: Metasic – New Design
From the first crackles and pops in the opening of Metasic's new video "New Design" I know I was in for a sonic reward. Well constructed and polished in a reckless sort of way...
First Look: The Escape – Soon Forgotten
The Philadelphia alternative rock outfit, The Escape has announced the release of their new EP, The Mark We Leave Behind which drops July 28th. This will be the four piece group's first EP since...
First Look: The Winachi Tribe – Time For Love (Co – Starring Keith Allen)
The psychedelic funk of George Clinton, the brooding menace of Massive Attack, the rolling hypnotic beats of Happy Mondays and the vision and flow of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five are all essential...
First Look: The Lion And The Wolf – Ghosts On Trinity
Picture a man on a lonely journey. Only the loneliest of journeys. This is a song about death. The song is somber yet, in a way, uplifting. Uplifting through the music. Because death is also...
First Look: Kitty Finer – Girls In The Garage
Written following a house party in Bristol (where Kitty lived while at art school), ‘Girls In The Garage’ is a jaunty dub with flourishes of mariachi brass and an Ethiopian-inspired sax solo played by...
First Look: John Galea – I Am A Survivor
John Galea has released a stunning new video for his single, "I Am A Survivor". The video was shot in Great Yarmouth and features John's own piano at the beach. This visually stunning work...
First Look: Love Nor Money – Shake Me
An ingenious euphonic cocktail of analogue and digital beats, new-wave guitar sonics and anthemic vocal, ‘Shake Me’, like every great night out, starts off rich in delicious suggestion and steadily ups the energy levels....
First Look: An Elegy – Ghost
West Midlands Metalcore quintet, An Elegy, will release their debut 6 track EP, "Embrace The Rain" on July 27th 2015
Young and eager, equipped with their instruments and a goal. 5 piece metalcore outfit AN...
First Look: Lights That Change – Voices
With their new video "Voices", Lights That Change offer a fresh dose of pop sensibility combined with an astute knowledge of post-modern remembrance that soothes the soul and enlightens the ears. This is a...
First Look: Crazy Fenton – Cool Ella
A welcome throwback to the golden ages of punk and rock, Crazy Fenton is the musical brainchild of songwriter Clive Aliker - a Norfolk based artist who is a big fan of making a...
First Look: Lola Lamour – A Little Of What You Fancy
A sparklingly original artist who perfectly captures the glamour of the 1950s and 60s, Lola Lamour is a reminder that they don’t make them like they used to. Lola and her band the Lamours...
First Look: 2Nice – Sunlight
Astoundingly versatile in his songwriting skills, London singer/songwriter, rapper and fusion artist, 2Nice is the kind of artist that only comes along every once in a while. His incredible fusion of reggae, pop, hip-hop...
First Look: Desert Ships – Skyliner
Directed by Julian Hand, an experimental filmmaker and light show artist who's recently worked with TOY and The Oscillation, Skyliner is based on a true story of a fatal plane crash. It's sung from...