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Great Lake Swimmers @Muziekgieterij & interview
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Great Lake Swimmers @Muziekgieterij & interview

In one of the past blog posts I had posted an interview that Great Lake Swimmers‘ Tony Dekker kindly gave me and also highly recommended you to go see them on tour. And here comes more: Great Lake Swimmers gig review and interview The three-week tour through Europe with Mary Lattimore has now come to an end and I had the opportunity (thank you Phil Klygo from weewerk!) to see them play and have another short conversation. So, it was Friday, May 6th, one of the first warm days after a very co

· Alice Peters-Burns · 4 min blog. A Forest Of Arms Great Lake Swimmers
From Russia with love - Sounds of Sputnik

From Russia with love - Sounds of Sputnik

If you are partial to the sound of post-rock, shoegaze and in particular dreampop, I will have very good news for you today: There is a band out there in Russia who excels in these genres and they are called Sounds of Sputnik. Not only these days with no iron curtain in sight,  we are able to track them down (with a lot of help of Shameless Promotions PR), a present from Russia with love – Sounds of Sputnik. And there is more good news right here: Sounds of Sputnik have re-released their first

· Alice Peters-Burns · 2 min dream pop Moon Sounds Records
Interview with Great Lake Swimmers
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Interview with Great Lake Swimmers

Be aware, Great Lake Swimmers might be somewhere near you right now. Offbeat music was kindly granted an interview with Great Lake Swimmers. Please see below and read about and listen to the band a bit before, also about their support act Mary Lattimore and their tour dates together. Great Lake Swimmers from currently Toronto, Canada, have released their sixth album “A Forest Of Arms” to much acclaim spoiling us with 12 songs of sheer beauty with apparent ease. After a foray into a “studio a

· Alice Peters-Burns · 6 min A Forest Of Arms Great Lake Swimmers
The Veldt and Stella Diana - dreaming away

The Veldt and Stella Diana - dreaming away

The Veldt The Veldt are back! Oh, aye, were they ever there in the first place?  Indeed, or were there ever away? No, they were always there, but many even the most dedicated music fans in Europe missed them the first time around. This is not going to happen this time thanks to the changes that the global network brought upon us. Bands can market themselves, fans can find them and even the genre-mixing is not so much of a problem anymore. All of these developments were not given in the 80s a

· Alice Peters-Burns · 4 min Indie Shameless Promotion PR
Little Waves Festival 2016, Genk

Little Waves Festival 2016, Genk

Genk, a town in Belgian Limburg, near the border to the Netherlands, might live in the shadow of neighbour Hasselt sometimes a little. Hasselt is known to many music lovers as host to the huge alternative Pukkelpop Festival. Genk was one of the centres for coal mining in Belgium…sadly the last mine was closed, so was a big branch of a car manufacturer. But Genk has loads to offer: Friendly people, a national park, a lovely city centre, interesting former mining sites, an open air museum, parks

· Alice Peters-Burns · 2 min Astronaute C-Mine

Ask For Joy, Fallon Cush and This Modern Hope

Ask For Joy, Fallon Cush and This Modern Hope all have great news and music for you this month! Without further ado: Ask For Joy Aaron Rossetto from Austin, Texas is both a multi-instrumentalist and producer. In 2005, he founded Ask For Joy. Ask for Joy is clearly influenced by such wonderful bands as The Jesus And Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine. With an assured knack for melodies, Ask For Joy release their album New Private Window this month. There can never be a guitar too many with

· Alice Peters-Burns · 2 min Ask For Joy Fallon Cush
Lanterns On The Lake Interview
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Lanterns On The Lake Interview

Before I treat you to an Lanterns On The Lake interview: Oversimplifying matters a tad, you might notice that there are talented singers and musicians out there that might not get the attention they deserve whereas others are rolling in it who are just…well, tastes differ. Then there are others who also have that rare gift of songwriting on top, and yet, the appreciation these days might be next to none. A true artist will of course prevail – they have no choice, their creativity must flow. Ye

· Alice Peters-Burns · 18 min beings bella union
Villagers gig review and interview
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Villagers gig review and interview

Villagers gig review and interview Villagers are taking their album “Where Have You Been All My Life?” on tour. The album was a selection of old and new songs recorded live in the studio. Same applies to the concerts on this tour. I had the opportunity to see one of the gigs in Düsseldorf, Germany, at the beautiful ZAKK centre. Let me just say, grab the chance to see Villagers on this tour. You’ll get a great support act, the Ye Vagabonds, a beautiful ascending set of Villagers’ songs showin

· Alice Peters-Burns · 11 min Conor O'Brien Domino
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Interviews Siv Jakobsen and Jess Morgan

I love it when ends meet, the circle is completed. So not only, there is a chance to see Siv Jakobsen going to tour her magical album The Lingering and older and new songs but she is bringing Jess Morgan with her as support act. Two fantastic artists, singers, singer-songwriters and guitar players that I so far had not connected. But it is a perfect fit: Both play guitar in a unique style and their assured voices soar over the music, taking you with spell-binding stories into their world. Je

· Alice Peters-Burns · 16 min Jess Morgan Siv Jakobsen
Interview with The Maccabees in Cologne
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Interview with The Maccabees in Cologne

The Maccabees seem to be engulfed by opposites: London lads who grew up liking The Libertines, starting to make music at an early age and having been musicians ever since. Their fanbase growing up with them but still counting fans much younger than themselves. All this leads to the expectation that we will find a laddish band. On the other hand most boast rather elegant first names, certainly enjoyed quite a privileged upbringing and yet they pull it off in the North of England as well since t

· Alice Peters-Burns · 10 min Cologne gig
On The Turntable in January 2016

On The Turntable in January 2016

On The Turntable in January 2016 Just a short note to let you know, I am breathing….Blog posts on new and upcoming bands will resume shortly. lowDuring the holidays it is oh so quiet. A fantastic reason to look forward to the long and bleak and festivity free January is the upcoming release of many a good album. So, what is on the turntable or any other device and that includes the car cd player and the kitchen radio in Offbeat-Music or indeed playing in my shows Kaleidoscope on www.byte.fm

· Alice Peters-Burns · 2 min Fallon Cush Low
And the beat goes on with Marie Danielle

And the beat goes on with Marie Danielle

Happy New Year everyone and I hope that it will be a joyous 2016 for all of you! What’s in a date really – what changes? But there is a light that never goes out and for me as for most of you (else you would not be reading this) it is music. If we concentrate on just the musical side of life, we may say that in retrospect, 2015 has been a good year in music and I would like to thank all artists for giving us the gift of their art and will try to continue to support them as much as I can. W

· Alice Peters-Burns · 2 min Americana Felice Brothers