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EP REVIEW: Oberhofer – Notalgia EP
By Tilly Jeanette Pearce When you get recommended something by someone who’s music taste you admire (don’t inflate your ego too much there, Hollie!), you obviously have a standard that you’re expecting to be reached. So here’s the thing: Oberhofer didn’t meet my expectations…they excelled them. I’m not sure what I was expecting but it […]
REVIEW: Portugal. the Man – ‘Evil Friends’
June 4, 2013
By Luke Woolley The Following scenario is a reconstruction of when two previous Portugal. The Man albums (The Satanic Satanist & American Ghetto) met. INT. daytime. Coffee Shop, stuck in a large queue. Satanic Satanist: C’Mon! This is not what I ordered, I asked for a Black Coffee, Not a Mocha! American Ghetto: I think […]
VIDEO #40 Various Cruelties
June 2, 2013
Video #40 – Various Cruelties Side A Side B Last summer, we were lucky enough to spend an afternoon in Regents Park, London with Liam of Various Cruelties talking about various things such as Kraftwerk, Boris Bikes (Citi Bikes to you New Yorkers) and Chat Roulette. Fast forward one year, and a lovely lady named […]
INTERVIEW: Billy Lockett
May 28, 2013
By Tilly Jeanette Pearce Billy Lockett is a cool guy. As my first ever interviewee, I let him know that I will probably be laughing a lot of the way through it out of nerves and he just laughs straight back. Truth be told, I think it was as an odd experience for both of […]
LIVE REVIEW: Postal Service
May 24, 2013
By Hannah Lazell When The Postal Service, fronted by Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie fame, announced that they’d be playing in London for the first time in a decade, I was straight on the case for tickets. Having first discovered their music in 2003 when I was living in New York and having […]
MY FAVORITE ALBUM: Introducing Tilly Pearce of Secret Sound Shop
May 22, 2013
Say hello to Tilly Jeanette Pearce, Secret Sound Shop’s newest, UK writer. Tilly has a degree in Music Business, has spent the past four years working in a seventies bar/’party venue’ so is now looking forward to returning to reality (+sanity!). Tilly owns five guitars but doesn’t know how to play anything more than ‘Basket Case’ […]
INTERVIEW: Young Kato
May 16, 2013
By Hollie Jones Since the release of the critically acclaimed Young Kato EP in the summer of 2012, Young Kato have been touring the UK tirelessly with headline shows across the country and successful support slots with a wide array of bands, including Spector, Bastille, Swim Deep, We Are Scientists and Peace. They most recently were the […]
WHERE TO WATCH: The Troxy, London
May 16, 2013
By Hannah Lazell A stones throw from Central London and the busier areas of Shoreditch and Bethnal Green, Limehouse isn’t really known for anything – especially for having a vibrant music scene. Surrounded by a busy main road, a multitude of old East London houses and new apartment blocks, small corner shops and not much […]
VIDEO #39 Missing Andy
April 28, 2013
Video #39 Missing Andy Side A Side B It’s not every day that we get invited to hang out with a band in the recording studio. So when the Missing Andy guys asked us to Essex, we hopped on a train and battled through piles of snow and windy lanes to see them record their […]
ONE TO WATCH: Farewell JR
April 22, 2013
By Tamsin Holleran I stumbled across Farewell JR in Manchester’s cavernous underground venue, the Soup Kitchen on 17th April. Although supporting Night Beds on their UK tour, they proved that they’re more than ready for their own headlining stint. Farewell JR is the moniker of Nick Raynor, along with a handful of similarly talented musicians who […]
June 18, 2013
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