Known for dramatic performances as well as subtle, varied
recordings, Seattle experimental rock ensemble Midday Veil combines intense
vocals and cosmic synths with hypnotic rock grooves to produce music that
rewards careful listening and defies easy categorization.
The band began in 2008 as a collaboration between vocalist
and multimedia artist Emily Pothast and classically-trained pianist / analog
synth head David Golightly. In early 2009, Midday Veil's sound was catalyzed by
the addition of prolific multi-instrumentalist Timm Mason on baritone guitar,
bass, and modular synth. Bassist/guitarist Jayson Kochan joined the band in
2011, and in 2012, Garrett Moore replaced original drummer Chris Pollina. Percussionist
Sam Yoder has also performed and recorded as a member.
Midday Veil's debut studio album Eyes All Around (2010) and
ecstatic improvised cassette releases Subterranean Ritual II (2011) and
INTEGRATRON (2012) established the band as a multifaceted entity with roots in
synth pop, psychedelic rock and free improvisation. Produced by Randall Dunn
and featuring artwork by Robert Beatty, Midday Veil's 2013 studio LP The
Current harnessed the experimental intensity of earlier releases with an
intensified focus on songcraft. The Current found its way onto a number of
year-end lists, including a mention by The Wire as one of the top avant-rock
albums of 2013.
In 2014, the band returned to the studio with Randall Dunn
to record its third LP (and first with drummer Garrett Moore) This Wilderness,
was released in September 2015 on Brooklyn-based label Beyond Beyond is Beyond.
A strong live act, Midday Veil has toured the US regularly
since 2009, notably opening for krautrock legends Faust on a Northwest tour in
2012. Festival appearances have included SXSW, Bumbershoot, 35 Denton, Treefort
Festival, Hypnotikon Festival, LA Psych Fest and Vancouver Psych Fest.
Keith Watson is a singer-songwriter from Aberdeen Scotland
better known as “The Awkwards”. Keith plays a variety of music in the folk music
soft rock genres.
“I write mostly acoustic-based songs, do all vocals, play
all parts, and record in a home studio.”
Life’s experiences have been the main source of inspiration
for Keith’s music since his early youth, so it’s a good bet that you’ll find
Keith immersed in his music around the Aberdeen night club scene singing and
playing acoustic guitar if he’s not at home working in his studio on a new
track…and if you tune into BBC Radio Scotland you might also hear a song of his
from time to time.
Some of Keith’s favourite bands are the Shangri-Las, the
Velvet Underground, Black Sabbath, the Smiths, and Everything but the Girl...you
wouldn’t know it by the soft vocals, meaningful lyrics and melodic guitar
playing that embodies most of Keith’s music, which seems more in common with the
likes of Paul Simon and Jim Croce. Either way, listening to Keith’s music is a
pleasure and sure to resonate on an emotional level.
Be sure to pick-up Keith’s music on Bandcamp and while you’re
at it, drop him a line on Facebook.
Hailing from Italy and currently based between there and
Iceland, My Cruel Goro present their debut eponymous EP, released on 24 August
2015.
FOR LOVERS OF: Ash, Arctic Monkeys, The Fratellis, The Hives
and early LIbertines, Dinosaur Jr., Weezer.
There isn’t a more fitting way to announce your band to the
Punk Rock scene than with a song called “Clash”, an energetic attitude fitting
of praise. ~ Stewart Brennan, World United Music
Joe Jackson was born on August 11 1954 in Burton-on-Trent,
England, but grew up in the South Coast naval port city of Portsmouth. A skinny, asthmatic kid, he loved books and
originally wanted to be a writer. At
age 11, though, he joined a school violin class in order to escape the
humiliation of Sports periods in which it was very often him, rather than the
ball, which got kicked. Much to his own surprise, he found himself fascinated
by music and eagerly studying music theory and history.
A couple of years later, Joe had switched to the piano,
mainly because of his new ambition: to be a composer. His first efforts were pieces for piano and small groups of
instruments. Within a few more years,
though, he was writing songs, and leaning more towards the pop world.
At age 16 Joe played his first paying gig, as pianist in a
pub next door to a glue factory just outside of Portsmouth. This was followed by other pub gigs (in
which he was often trying to entertain crowds of drunken, bottle-throwing
sailors) and accompanying a bouzouki player in a Greek restaurant.
At age 18 Joe won a scholarship to study Composition, Piano,
and Percussion at London's Royal Academy of Music. During the three years he spent there, he broadened his horizons
further by working with a Fringe theatre group, studying Jazz with John
Dankworth at the Academy and in the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, and playing
in pop cover bands with names like Edward Bear and The Misty Set. By the time he left the Academy, he was the
co-leader and songwriter of Arms and Legs, a proto-punk outfit which released
two singles on the MAM label before burning out somewhere around 1976.
Joe then took a detour through the Cabaret world, as pianist
and musical director first for the Portsmouth Playboy Club and then for singing
duo Koffee N' Kreme. The main purpose
of this was to save money to make demos of his own songs.
By 1978 Joe was living in London and hawking an album-length
demo, with his own band (Graham Maby, Bass; Dave Houghton, Drums; Gary Sanford,
Guitar) standing by. That demo -
already called Look Sharp -
eventually found its way to American producer David Kershenbaum, who was in
London in the capacity of talent scout for A&M Records. Joe was immediately signed and Look Sharp
more professionally re-recorded in August '78.
The Joe Jackson Band finally started to play regular gigs and the album
was released in January 1979.
1980’s
Joe Jackson's story up to this point is much more fully, fascinatingly,
and hilariously recounted in his book A CURE FOR GRAVITY. From here on, though, it becomes more a
matter of public record. Look Sharp (containing the hit Is She Really Going Out
With Him) was followed within a year by the very similar I'm The Man
(containing the hit It’s Different For Girls) and in 1980 by the darker, more
reggae-influenced Beat Crazy. At the end of 1980, drummer Houghton decided to
quit, and Joe decided to dissolve the band and try something new.
In 1981 Jackson recorded Jumpin' Jive, a 'musical vacation'
paying tribute to Swing and Jump Blues artists such as Louis Jordan and Cab
Calloway. Returning to songwriting, Joe
spent a large chunk of 1982 in New York. The result was Night and Day, a more
sophisticated and melodic record built around keyboards and Latin percussion,
rather than guitars. With a new guitar-less band, Jackson hit the road for a
whole year, and the album became his biggest success, spawning the hit singles
Steppin’Out, Breaking Us In Two and Real Men and going platinum in the US.
During the tour Joe also somehow found time to write his first film score, for
James Bridges' Mike's Murder. (He would
go on to write several more, including most notably for Francis Ford Coppola's
Tucker in 1988).
Now based in NYC, Jackson's next album Body and Soul (1984)
was in a similar vein to Night and Day but featured a horn section (which,
along with the Blue Note-inspired cover art, led many people to wrongly assume
he'd made a jazz record). For Big World (1986) Jackson stripped everything down
to a 4-piece again, and recorded live, direct to 2-track master. In 1989 he
went in the opposite direction with the majestic, semi-autobiographical Blaze
of Glory, and toured with an 11-piece band.
Laughter and Lust (1991) was more like a mainstream (though still
idiosyncratic) rock record, but yet another lengthy world tour left Jackson
exhausted and at a creative dead end. As he sees it, his workaholic phase -
which also included several film scores, a live album (Live 1980-86), an
instrumental album (Will Power, 1987), guest appearances with Suzanne Vega,
Ruben Blades and Joan Armatrading, and endless touring -
was over.
1990’s
Joe's work during the rest of the 1990s was his most
challenging and eclectic: the gentle, soul-searching Night Music (1994), the
ambitious and original song-cycle based on the Seven Deadly Sins, Heaven and
Hell (1997), and the album Joe considers his most underrated, Night and Day II
(2000). The turn of the century saw a burst of creativity: Jackson won his
first Grammy (Best Pop Instrumental Album for the non-traditional,
non-orchestral Symphony No.1) and published his book A Cure For Gravity.
Described by Joe as not an autobiography but ‘a book abut music thinly
disguised as a memoir’, it was well-reviewed and has been translated into
German and Dutch.
2000’s
In 2003 Jackson astonished everyone, including himself, by
re-forming the original Joe Jackson Band for a stunning new album, Volume 4,
and a lengthy tour. The reunion was always intended as a one-off, but it also
produced a live album, Afterlife, in 2004.
By this time Jackson was living mostly back in London. He
made quite a few solo appearances, including on an unusual triple-bill tour
with Todd Rundgren and the string quartet Ethel. He sang and played piano on
Rickie Lee Jones' It's Like That and William Shatner's Has Been (produced,
arranged and co-written by Ben Folds). He made his first film appearance, as a
pub pianist, in The Greatest Game Ever Played, which also features some of his
music. He was also awarded a Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Music and an
Honorary Doctorate by the University of Portsmouth.
Around this time Joe started working with writer Raymond
Hardie and director Judy Dolan on Stoker, a musical theatre project about Bram
Stoker, the creator of Dracula. Though Stoker has been workshopped, performed a
couple of times for small invited audiences, and attracted a lot of interest
from theatre companies around the world, it has yet to find the backing for a
fully-staged production.
In 2006 Joe turned his attention back to pure songwriting
and did a short Trio tour with Graham Maby and Dave Houghton. Having failed to
happily re-establish himself in London, he moved to Berlin, where his next
album Rain was recorded in 2007. Consisting of ten powerful, timeless new
songs, Rain creates a surprisingly epic sound with just voices, piano, bass and
drums. The trio toured for the next three years, and played more shows than any
other J J lineup, including Joe’s first visits to Mexico, Israel, Croatia, the
Czech Republic, South Africa and Turkey. A live album, Live Music, was released
in 2011.
2010’s
Joe Jackson’s most recent project is a tribute to one of his
greatest musical heroes, Duke Ellington. The Duke is an often radical re-interpretation
of fifteen Ellington classics, arranged into ten tracks, and featuring an
eclectic roster of guest artists including Iggy Pop, Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson
and other members of The Roots, Sharon Jones, Steve Vai, and jazz violin star
Regina Carter, who joined Joe on the subsequent tour.
Jackson is currently living in Berlin but returns frequently
to both New York and Portsmouth. He just released his latest album "Fast Forward" in Oct., 2015.
Marlon Williams is an award winning singer-songwriter from
town of Lyttelton, New Zealand.
He released his debut solo album to critical acclaim in
April, charting at 4 in New Zealand, and 31 in Australia in its opening week.
The album has been called “captivating” by Rolling Stone, “a revelation” by
Metro Magazine and “wonderfully accomplished” by the New Zealand Herald in a
5-star review. It has also featured on countless ‘Best of the Year So Far’
lists including Double J, Fasterlouder, Herald Sun, The Music and Timber &
Steel
Williams’ sold out album release tour in June/July,
including an epic hometown show at the 1300-capacity Theatre Royal in
Christchurch. Performing with his band The Yarra Benders, the Sydney Morning
Herald review glowed “what a terrific show. Fun and funny, sad and blue, it had
flashes of modernity amid vast swathes of history and offered up the promise of
a future completely unpredictable and completely watchable”.
Williams will spend 2015 touring the album in Australia and
NZ, acting in several film and TV roles, and touring North America, UK and
Europe before he releases the album internationally in early 2016.
With one of the purest voices in modern music, and the
charisma and individuality to match it, the world is about to discover Marlon
Williams.
BACKGROUND
Marlon Williams grew up singing in the Christchurch
cathedral choir, before his punk rock dad turned him onto country music in his
teens.
He founded The Unfaithful Ways at 17, with his high school
friends and their science teacher, and quickly gained national attention,
playing the Big Day Out, touring with Band of Horses and Justin Townes Earle,
and picking up a Critics Choice award nomination at the 2011 New Zealand Music
Awards for their debut album Free Rein.
Williams met acclaimed country singer Delaney Davidson in
2011, and the pair began performing as a duo. Over two years they released
three volumes of the series, Sad But True: The Secret History Of Country Music
Songwriting, garnering critical acclaim, including the New Zealand country song
and country album of the year in 2013.
Relocating to Melbourne in mid-2013, Williams began
performing solo around town and built a cult following playing a residency at
local venue the Yarra Hotel. The buzz built nationally in 2014, with major
festival and television appearances leading to sold out tours of Australia and
New Zealand.
He released his debut solo album in April 2015 to critical
acclaim, and will spend the year touring internationally alongside film and TV
appearances.
ALBUM PRESS
“Picks his marks and hits them…captivating” Rolling Stone
“…his voice soars to the heavens and plucks at the
heartstrings.” The Australian
“One of the most impressive country records this year”
Tonedeaf
“At times impossibly fun, at others bone-achingly beautiful;
Marlon Williams has delivered a gem” The Music
“The whole record is remarkable…” Music Feeds
“…sublime” Herald Sun
“Williams is also a singular artist who mimics none of his
heroes, and has forged his own musical path” New Zealand Herald
“Williams’ combination of youthful enthusiasm, old-soul
wisdom, and solid songwriting makes this debut a wonderfully accomplished
record which justifies the hype he is getting” New Zealand Herald
“It’s a revelation: an album that will still be listened to
and enjoyed a decade hence” Metro Magazine
“Marlon Williams solo debut is so effortlessly great…” Metro
Magazine
“A big part of his charm is that voice, which almost
single-handedly brings back the type of emotive yet eloquent crooning touched
on by both Tim Buckley and his son Jeff, but which hasn’t really been done the
way it needs to be done since those first crooners of rock and roll, those
bedevilled songs of Bing like Elvis Presley and especially Roy Orbison” Metro
Magazine
“Well, I have something to say. Do yourself a favour and buy
this album. Buy it now, because it might just be one of the best
country/folk/alternative/whatever-you-want-to-categorise-it records you listen
to all year!” Speaker TV
Marlon Williams has one of the richest voices you’ll hear
anywhere in New Zealand.” Sunday Star Times
Though this solo debut has been a long time coming he has
built a strong reputation as a live performer across Australia and New Zealand,
and that experience has filtered through on this superb album that never
falters or loses its sense of wonderment across its thirty-five minutes” UTR
“Sorry, New Zealand – in the grand tradition of Crowded
House, Sam Neill and Russell Crowe, Australia will be claiming Marlon Williams
as our own. After all, the Lyttelton-born singer resides in Melbourne now, and
really, he’s just that good, we’re having him” The Age
striking poise and unique polish” Mess & Noise
One of New Zealand’s finest musical exports” Renowned For
Sound
DISCOGRAPHY
2011 – Free Rein by The Unfaithful Ways
2012 – Sad But True Vol 1 by Delaney Davidson & Marlon
Williams
2013 – Sad But True Vol 3 by Delaney Davidson & Marlon
Williams
David Philips is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist
and producer from the UK. His work as a solo artist and session guitar player
has taken him around the world playing venues and festivals such as Montreaux
Jazz Festival (Switzerland), Delhi Jazz Festival (India), Woodford Folk
Festival (Australia), Blue Balls Festival (Switzerland), Mare De Agosto
Festival (Azores Islands), Blues Aan Zee Festival (Holland), plus studio work
and live shows in the US, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. He has also written
and recorded productions for companies such as MTV, VH1, Audi, Volkswagon,
Honda, La Caixa (Spain) and Gas Natural (Spain).
Philips self released his debut album “Heal Yourself Alone”
in 2010 and was quickly selected as Album Of The Week by Robert Elms at BBC
Radio London. It was also at #34 in the top 100 roots/country albums of 2011,
compiled by Roots Music Report in the US. After a short tour of Holland and
Belgium Philips signed with Black and Tan Records in Holland and released his
next 3 albums with the Dutch label.
Philips is known for his D.I.Y approach in the studio,
writing, recording and producing all his albums himself as well as playing all
instruments and tracking all vocals on his last 3 records to date. The Rooftop
Recordings (2011) was recorded in his rooftop apartment in Barcelona, Spain
while December Wine (The 4 Track Tapes) (2013) is a selection of demos recorded
using a Tascam 4 track cassette machine. His most recent album “If I Had Wings”
was released in March 2015 and is the result of 18 months of writing, recording
and live shows throughout Europe. The record is Philips' most adventurous to
date, exploring his musical past as a jazz guitar player and also electronic music
producer. He also did the artwork for the release using paintings, drawings and
sketches made whilst on tour and at home throughout 2014. David Philips has
toured Europe extensively over the past 5 years and continues to showcase his
world class guitar playing and carefully crafted songs and stories to a growing
audience.
Irish
singer-songwriter and author Andy White carries a 12-string guitar under
his arm and wears his particular brand of charm on his sleeve, with the
political edge of Billy Bragg, the romance of David Gray and the Celtic
lyricism of the Waterboys.
Andy is
a fully paid up 21st Century Troubadour (and that’s the title of his
journal-memoir published by Lagan Press in Ireland and last year’s ‘album of
the book’ compilation on his UK label, Floating World).
Belfast born and raised, now
living in Melbourne, White has earned a global following for blending folk and
pop stylings with a poet’s sensibility. Working with the great names of Irish
music - Sinead O’Connor, Donal Lunny, Van Morrison - and writing with the likes
of Peter Gabriel and Neil and Tim Finn, Andy has won Ireland’s top songwriting
awards and toured the world many times over.
Since his first album Rave On Andy White, recorded in a field
in Northern Ireland, Andy has been produced by top producers John Leckie and
Kim Fowley, recorded in studios from Real World in the UK to Australia and
Canada, along the way writing many songs engrained in his homeland’s psyche –
including ‘Religious Persuasion’, ‘James Joyce’s Grave’ and ‘Street Scenes From
My Heart’.
Andy’s
latest release is his eleventh studio album How Things Are, on release in Europe this February 3. Recorded in
The Growlery, Melbourne, with son Sebastian on drums, it’s an intensely
personal collection of songs both celebrating and commemorating the end of a
beautiful relationship which started around the time his fourth album.
Andy’s
work and life have always been interconnected - his autobiography is in his
discography, and the latest one is an apotheosis of sorts. He says he wrote the
songs in an intense period of reflection, to answer the oft-posed question “How
are things?”
Andy’s
work as a writer and poet is closely linked to his songwriting output. He’s
been described as writing in the tradition of the Spanish troubadour poets and
the Beats, yet he retains a strong classical sensibility. Stolen Moments is his most recent volume, published by Brisbane
publisher Another Lost Shark Press in 2011.
As a
performer, as well as playing solo, Andy has collaborated with like-minded
friends, musicians and writers both in the past – ALT with Liam O Maonlai (Hothouse Flowers) and Tim Finn (Crowded
House, Split Enz) – and the present – Fearing
& White with Canadian singer-songwriter Stephen Fearing.
Andy is a singer-songwriter of
and for our times, documenting the world and its current chaos and beauty with
remarkable insight. As he says in ‘I Decided To Fly’, wherever he is, with an
acoustic guitar in his hand, he’s still “blowing bubbles on the Lisburn Road.”
Keep up with Andy’s world via his website, blog, and
Facebook fansite:
Yuri Gagarin are a Progressive, Psychedelic Rock band from
Gothenburg Sweden that formed in 2012. The bands music blends several genres
into one driving force that has garnered them a wide fan appeal across the
shoegaze, psychedelic rock, progressive rock and heavy rock circles.
Their self titled debut album “Yuri Gagarin” was released in
2013 and received high praise by their fans. September 25th, 2015
saw the release of a two song EP titled “Sea of Dust” and it didn’t disappoint
either, as their fans have heaped much praise on this solid emerging band from
Northern Europe.
Yuri Gagarin’s music will remind seasoned fans of the 70’s
iconic trend-setting group “Hawkwind” with their space driving progressive
psychedelic driving sounds. Have a listen and catch the wave!
After several years of experimentation and travelling around
Europe, Jim Ghedi has returned to Sheffield UK with a signature progressive
folk acoustic sound not to be missed. Working heavily in rhythmic phrasing as
well as melodic & harmonic experimentation, Jim has crafted his style of
playing by incorporating Jazz, eastern European Folklore, and African
influences into his focus.
Jim Ghedi’s debut album “Home is Where I Exist, Now to Live
& Die” will be released with Cambrian Records on the 4th November 2015.
“The material for the album, is a running dialogue of my
time spent travelling from Brussels & northern Europe and then returning
back home. The tracks are moments in time, and fragments of life lived being exposed
in different places with different people.”
“I spent my time in Belgium with nothing set in place, but a
friends room who kindly let me stay and play my acoustic guitar. I spent my
days there writing music, exploring the library’s incredible archive, playing
in the streets and exploring the world around me.”
Jim has collaborated and supported artists such as James
Blackshaw, Richard Dawson, Dead Rat Orchestra, Cam Deas, C Joynes, Stephanie
Hladowski, Alasdair Roberts, Alex nelson’s Death Shanties, The Big eyes family
players and Trembling bells.
Jim will embark on an extensive UK tour starting in
September 20th through November 28th to launch his new
album so be sure to catch a live performance near you.
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Psychedelic, Alternative, New Wave, Dark Wave – (2020 to 2029)
Rock, Alternative - (2010 to 2019)
Rock, Alternative – (2020 to 2021)
Soft Rock, Lite Rock, Alternative – (2010 to 2019)
Soft Rock, Lite Rock, Alternative – (2020 to 2021)
Pop Rock – (2000 to 2019)
Pop Rock - (2020 to 2021)
Folk Rock, Acoustic – (2010 to 2019)
Folk Rock, Acoustic – (2020 to 2021)
Hard Rock, Heavy Metal – (2000 to 2019)
Punk Rock, High Energy Rock n Roll – (2000 to 2019)
Southern Rock, Alt Country – (2000 to 2019)
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