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Plainsong, the self-produced album from Susan Enan was recorded in 5 different countries features guests musicians including Ashwin Sood, Steve Schiltz, Graham Maby and Oli Kraus, with guest vocals from Declan O’Rouke and Sarah McLachlan.

We met Foy Vance for the first time at the Greenbelt Festival where we was wowing crowds with a serious of beautifully crafted acoustic sets mixing guitar, voice and his loop machine. By far one of the stand out performers…

Ten Bears are one of the most exciting indie bands I’ve heard this year. They’ve already been picking up radio play on Radio 1 and playing venues and festivals across the country. With a new record in the pipeline,…

This track recently arrived in the IndieLab inbox and has been soothing and intriguing us ever since. We’re looking forward to catching Paul live at some point soon to see the live show is even half as interesting as his…

This Morning Call has been described as “Portishead on anti-depressants” and “LCD Soundsystem with a hangover”. The musical moniker of Manchester producer Ben Heyworth, This Morning Call has a quirky mix with electronic and indie influences with an…

Hailing from the out skirts of Manchester hard edged, sub pop, band The Vanguards have been working in the studio producing tracks and playing round the UK in 2008, with their latest single ‘Regress’ being a hit with the local…

Just had this great little track dropped into our Sound Cloud Dropbox. Softly beautiful and mellow, it evokes feelings of late night firesides under starry skies. From the Cannes born Julie Peel, this is taken from her debut…

I caught these guys at the Un-Convention closing party and they just blew the room away. Signed to the King Tuts Label in Glasgow, they are a bundle of punk electro energy that really come into their own…

Anybody who counts My Brightest Diamond, Sujan and The Postal Service amongst their influences is on my wavelength, add into the mix a lady with a gorgeous voice and some recorder love and you’ve got an awesome little band from…

The Paris Riots were recommended to us by Blue Print Studios and they’ve been on the mp3 player ever since. Obviously a good proportion of the gig going public agrees with us as they’ve just won the
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I’m sure I’m coming quite late to the party blogging about this video but I love the ingenuity behind it. One of the main challenges bands have these days is making their music or work stand out against the noise…

We’re loving the new ‘Silence Breaks’ EP from The Red Labels. Recorded with producer Guy Massey at the Dublin Sun Studios it’s a storming energy filled record.

With a modern sound which evokes the remnants of 1970s raw rock…

I caught the video for Everything Everything’s new single on the Manchester TV channel during a run down of the top 10 bands from the city. The single, Suffragette Suffragette is being released by XL’s new imprint label ‘Salvia’…

Hailing from Manchester this Dance/ Indie/ Disco/ Pop outfit are causing quite stir with their up-tempo party dance floor fillers.

Connecting over a love of non classic 70’s Disco, Obscure Dance, 80’s Pop and Abstract Rock.Jax and Louis’ peculiar…

We caught these guys at the wonderful Manchester Deaf Institute on their recent UK tour with WoodPigeon and the wonderfully quirky Winter Journey. Described by one reviewer as ‘chamber pop’ they are an eclectic line up…

This arrived in my inbox last week, the track – like the accompanying press release and website – is super slick with all the rough edges nicely cleaned off (but not in a bad way!). The single has mainstream appeal…

Coventry is the home of Trailer, a 4 person wall of dance noise on the cutting edge of a new genre they are calling ‘Atmospheric Dance Rock Fusion’. Sounding like Orbital on steroids, Tom Robinson recently featured them on his…

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Miss Li has a genuinely unique sound combined with a gorgeous sense of humor. Her music is speckled with random instrumentation that at times sounds like a fight between Bjork and a German polka band mixed with some serious Scandinavian…

After playing with Monkey Swallows The Universe Nat Johnson has forged out on her own with new solo material. September 08 saw her release her debut single Dirty Rotten Soul which I think you’ll agree has a great little vibe…

If you haven’t already downloaded Matador Record’s Fall Intended Play sampler album then click on the link and grab the zip file now for free!. It’s 13 tracks worth of classic Indie music polarizing goodness that will have…

I caught the video for Everything Everything’s new single on the Manchester TV channel during a run down of the top 10 bands from the city. The single, Suffragette Suffragette is being released by XL’s new imprint label ‘Salvia’…

Tom Robinson’s 6Music show put me on to this complete lunatic by the name of Thomas Truax. He makes his own instruments out of junk in superb Heath Robinson fashion and then proceeds to weave fantastic sonic tapestries with them…

Hailed by Iron & Wine’s Samuel Beam as ‘the master of the loop pedal’, multi instrumentalist Marc Rigelsford, AKA the Manchester based Magic Arm, released ‘Widths and Heights’ on Switchflicker Records in July. I’ve only just come across…