Cult-guitarist and psychopop, goth-rock prince, Paul Roland is back and gigging again with a new, exciting young band of experienced Italian musicians. First appearing together at the Metal Magic Festival in Denmark in July of this year, where Roland’s previous performance was hailed as “one of the best five gigs in the history of the […]
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NEWS: New Single and Tour on the Horizon from Chicago’s own, The Footlight District
Siblings and blues-infused rockers, The Footlight District are back with a brand new single which is guaranteed to excite fans and raise the bar for the Chicago-based band. The single ‘Lightning’ is set to be released September 9th – with powerful vocals, great lyrics and memorable riffs, this addition to their already fantastic discography is […]
Bent Self Ties With Hip Hop Icon Kool Keith On Off-World Venture
Grunge-fuelled alt hip-hop rising star Bent Self has caught the attention on one of the genre’s greats as Kool Keith joins him on a lyrical killing spree against Martian kind in the otherworldly adventure ‘Murder On Mars’. The track takes listeners off planet to a violent cull on Mars as Bent Self, Kool Keith and […]
Music News 2Day: The UK’s First Carbon-Negative Restaurant Launches Crowdfunder For New Branch
After having shattered records by raising £350,000 in a staggering five hours in 2018, the UK’s first carbon-negative restaurant, Stem & Glory, have returned for another round of crowdfunding to keep the fire alive on their upward trajectory. This will take the form of a brand new branch for the award-winning plant-based brand with two […]
Seeing Without Looking: Baluji Shrivastav OBE and the World’s Only Professional Ensemble of Blind Musicians
Overcoming adversity has always been part and parcel of one’s journey through the music industry, yet what Indian musical prodigy Baluji Shrivastav OBE has forgone is nothing short of astounding. Blinded at the age of just eight months, Baluji has spent a lifetime laughing in the face of stereotypes and becoming a tour de force […]
Music News 2day: Tunetables Solve Stylish Storage For Music
Any music-lover will want to check out Tunetables, a fantastic new range of bespoke storage-units/tables for housing your precious CDs, tapes and vinyl. It’s great to see a company getting behind the resurgence in popularity of physical media, and these repurposed musical-instrument flight-cases look fantastic. Rob Chappelhow, the man behind Tunetables, explains that his inspiration […]
Simon speaks on ethereal new album in wake of Collins’ tabloid drama
Most know the name Phil Collins from his solo work or his career performing with prog-rock band Genesis. However, some may not be aware of his son Simon Collins who has been pursuing his own career in music since 1999 with the release of his debut album ‘All of Who You Are’. With defamatory headlines […]
Quite Great are here to help lockdown blues with their mental health series ‘Just Checking In’
As we enter 2021 with another bout of staying inside and socially distancing, it’s important that we not only keep on top of our physical health but our mental health too. It can be a difficult topic to face alone and sometimes hard to talk about, but there are plenty of ways you can help […]
Requiem for New Zealand – Mustafa Khetty
Mustafa Khetty is a composer and song writer born in Sri Lanka and having lived in Ireland, UK, Middle East and Far East, each experience contributing to a rich and diverse palette of musical influence. His musical journey began early, Mustafa being exposed to Indian classical music and later on western classical, progressive rock and […]
Virtuoso 80s Bassist, Lawrence Preston, Emerges with Impressive Single
The history of popular music is often the history of amazing instrumentalists, arrangers and session musicians whose impressive musical skills we hear on the record, but because they are not the star of the show, or the face of the band – they go unrecognised in our musical history. The story of Lawrence Preston‘s musical upbringing […]
CR Blacks – Rosie’s Interlude
The North London wordsmith treats us to visuals for the dreamy, trippy slash laid back hip hop record with an hint of alternative RNB. ROSIE’s INTERLUDE, arguably one CR Blacks’s best pieces of work to date has been brought to life by well known Berlin based videographer Bruce Thompson. Inspired by the all-too-common temptations […]
Barney Rattle releases eclectic compilation album African Storybook of Songs
Determined London-born producer, Barney Rattle, has spent the past twenty years working with musicians from South Africa and across the globe to change the face of black musical history – helping 100’s of musicians living in poverty, whilst building equality by introducing South African music to the western world.To celebrate two decades of progress, Rattle […]