Single Review: “Piston Ghosts” – The Queen’s Head

This is a track that I really enjoyed when it dropped on my inbox this morning. I like the darkness of the chord progression and tempo. The track just prowls, the drums provide the rhythm at half time but that also allows for triplets which gives the whole track space to groove. There are synth …

Single Review: “Holding Back The Tears” – Take That

It’s been 30 years since @takethat released their third album “Nobody Else” and it shows how far things have come. In that time, Robbie Williams left, the band split up some time after that, all had successful solo careers and even reunited – something no one ever saw coming – first without Robbie and then …

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 …

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? …

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 …

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: …

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 …

Blog interview: June6teen

Hello June6xteen how are you?   Hiii, I’m doing fine thank you so much! Congratulations on the release of “Me Myself And I” how does it feel now it’s out in the world?  Thank you! It feels amazing to finally have Me Myself & I out in the world. This song means so much to …

Single Review: “£15 Kebab” – The Soap Company

When I first heard this track my first question was….  WHO’S GOING TO PAY £15 FOR A KEBAB????  Pre covid there used to a kebab shop near my house that I used to treat myself to every so often, you’d get a large portion inside a pitta with your choice of toppings for less than …