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Single Review: “Aura” – NX Panther X Rita Morar

NX Panther is back with a track that combines arpeggiated synths with a rapid fire beat. It sounds epic!  With NX Panther’s hard hitting bars, she seems at home with this, enunciating every word, at the same time flowing over a half time beat. Her flow is percussive, hitting the beat flawlessly. In her lyrics …

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Single Review: “When You’re Near” – The Music Of Sound

Neil March, Sherry Sahayaraj and Elena Trent are back with a track that’s got a real nice bounce to it! Following a great few months of live dates and extremely encouraging streaming numbers, as well as support from BBC Introducing and BBC Orbit you could call this a bit of a triumph. The bassline starts …

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Single Review: “Radical Tenderness” – Nick Mulvey

I have been a fan of Nick Mulvey’s since hearing his song “Nitrous”, coupled with “Cucurucu” and “We Remain” this is an artist I have a lot of respect for.  This is a track from his new album “Dark Harvest”, and it follows his path of acoustic folk. Starting off you hear some great guitar …

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Single Review: “London Girls” – Garlen Lo

It’s 4am. I’m wheezing.  Why?  Garlen Lo released his new single, and with his usual charm and wit he’s  dropped a cracker of a tune, and it’s made me chuckle. Let’s get into it.  This starts off with what I can assume is a toy trumpet, because when you hear it, it sets the tone …

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Blog interview: Robin Phillips

Hello Robin how are you? Feeling great thanks, slightly frantic with preparations for the album launch event, but as the album has been 6 years in the making from the first inspiration and came out today it feels like a big moment. Congratulations on the release of Return From The Source how does it feel? …

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In The Spotlight: Sammy Stein Talks To Marlowe Shepherd

Marlowe Shepherd Marlowe Shepherd is an American recording artist and performer. From being a street performer, he now focuses on long-term residencies in iconic venues across the world, including those in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Nashville, New York, and London. He has performed in New Orleans, Savannah, Memphis, Nashville, Birmingham, Atlanta, and Louisville and shared …

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Album Review: “Not Even Air Can Come Btwn Us Now” – Rikke

Rikke has released her new album and it’s billed as an album of conflicts, goodbyes, and new beginnings.  With that as a premise, it intrigued me enough to want to do a deep delve into this. Always A Part Of Me This is an acoustic number that goes for the heartstrings from the first line: …

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Single Review: “What Would I Do?” Ah Honey

This is a great piece of indie pop! It starts off with a driving rhythm led by guitars, I think I hear an electric piano providing one chord at the beginning then it launches into the track properly. What I like about this song is the changes. At about 0:32 the pre-chorus comes in where …

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In The Spotlight: Gwendolyn Kassenaar. Words: Sammy Stein.

  Gwendolyn Kassenaar, Conceptual artist  Gwendolyn Kassenaar is an artist who brings a fresh approach to uniting music and art in conceptual ways that encourage audiences to have new insights into how music interpretation can be accessed. I first saw Gwen when she performed with Noisy Women at Café Oto. Gwen spent time at her …