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Molly Pinto Madigan - sublime!

Molly Pinto Madigan - sublime!

The things that Molly Pinto Madigan loves most, I share … such as roses, old ballads, faery stories and beaches, tea-drinking, music-making and novel-writing. Only, at least at the last two she is clearly much much better than me. I do recommend you to write her fairy tales, however, this blog is about Molly Pinto Madigan’s music. Her voice, her lyrics and her music are outside this world in the truest sense. Starting out at a very young age, she was lead singer for bluegrass band Jaded Mand

· Alice Peters-Burns · 1 min indiefolk Molly Pinto Madigan
Whale Bones

Whale Bones

Whale Bones are just a two-some: Nathan Kane on vocals/guitar and Paul Lierman on drums. Not to be mixed up with Whalebones in one word, please! Whale Bones are at home in Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A. and they make this rocking, rich, lush, warm music that only can come from the US. Drums are being drummed, guitar is being played and lyrics and melodies are being sung and not just so but intensely  with an aptitude for a fine melodious alternative rock song. May I thank them here for letting m

· Alice Peters-Burns · 1 min Bloomington Indiana
Mary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler Interview

Mary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler Interview

Somewhere I read that only real music nerds into a certain kind of music who have a pastime of perusing credits will have heard of Mary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler. In my humble opinion, anyone who listens to music could not fail to come across the two lately. Mary Lattimore is a harpist who plays her extraordinary instrument with virtuosity beyond all genres. She played with Thurston Moore, Kurt Vile & The Violators, Sharon van Etten, Meg Baird, to name but a few. She also released her EP The Wi

· Alice Peters-Burns · 9 min Bloomington Indiana
Steve Gunn Interview
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Steve Gunn Interview

Steve Gunn, master guitar player and singer/songwriter (proven on his very fine and highly acclaimed album “Way Out Weather) has released three albums over the past year, his own “Way Out Weather”, a collaboration with Mike Cooper and a recording with The Black Twig Pickers. Before that he has released numerous solo albums and worked together with many more bands. The man never rests and what he does, he does get obsessed with on top. And now he is on tour, one hell of a tour. There must be a

· Alice Peters-Burns · 13 min Indie radio
Valise

Valise

Do Valise take their name from the French for “suitcase”? Search me, I dunno. I could pack one or two of those though on a dreary, cold, rainy Monday and travel to the US to see that band play. Guys, any chance, you will grace our shores in Europe? Enlighten us, you beg? Certainly. Vince Penick, Jared Travis, Casey Newton, Ricky Johnson hail from Dallas, Texas. They met in school and quickly ditched their studies to make music. They are on tour and their live shows – so I hear – are somethin

· Alice Peters-Burns · 1 min band Indie
Lisbon Kid

Lisbon Kid

Now, I am not an expert on electronic music at all but I know what I like. So basically I can only tell you what I really love about Lisbon Kid‘s music other than impressing you with the fine-tuned vocabulary of the genre. Then again, Lisbon Kid do not really fit into any genre, starting from calling themselves alternative acoustic electronica duo. Lisbon Kid consist of Danny de Matos and Rui da Silva who indeed hail from Portugal. They are both musicians and producers and now live in London.

· Alice Peters-Burns · 1 min electronica Event Horizon
Franka De Mille

Franka De Mille

Franka de Mille could make me utterly depressed. How can a woman be so gorgeous, possess such a voice, such talent, such a stage persona and yet be so utterly down-to-earth and friendly. It being that and of course her songs lift me up. The only thing that does depress me then, is why is the woman not at a star in the making at once? Franka De Mille is a London singer, songwriter and composer with THAT voice and very personal lyrics. She has a good knack on melodies which are bordering classic

· Alice Peters-Burns · 1 min Americana Bridge the roads
Review: J.P. Kallio "After The Storm"

Review: J.P. Kallio "After The Storm"

In our fast-paced, multimedia, multitasking, ready-to-consume world, we hardly ever take the time to engage with anything profoundly and solely. From my own experience I know for instance that there are only few listeners to my radio programmes who just do that: Sit and listen. It is the plight of the singer-songwriter therefore, especially when performing live that his music is taken as a kind of pleasant background noise. Who needs the stories anyhow, told in the folk tradition of rendering

· Alice Peters-Burns · 2 min after the storm country
Captain Wilberforce

Captain Wilberforce

How to write a blog post about someone who does an excellent blog on new bands himself? Who does? Simon Bristoll does in the aptly named “Honey and Bile“! Kudos to the accomplished musician and blogger on many new bands himself by at least saying a few words and maybe bringing his music to a couple more ears. I know him first and foremost as Captain Wilberforce, releasing songs with an assured nod to the songwriting craftmanship of the sixties. For me also XTC and Elvis Costello spring to mind

· Alice Peters-Burns · 1 min captain wilberforce music
Warehouse Eyes

Warehouse Eyes

There are indeed people who will shriek away from the description “dream pop” and I wonder since when dreams and pop have become something, well, not sinister, but cheap. It could also mean lovely music that makes you daydream – ethereal sounds – perfect in other words. This is what Warehouse Eyes do: Exquisite music that opens up slowly and does not begin to fade after repeated listening. Add to that lyrics about heartbreak and hallucinations (sic!) and a delicate haunting voice and you are a

· Alice Peters-Burns · 2 min carvings. offbeat music
Hudson and Troop

Hudson and Troop

I know, I know, where is my next blog? So much to do, so little time. But I gladly sit here tonight to pen something on Hudson and Troop! Of course not only because I simply cannot resist the goodies from the Melbourne music scene. Hudson and Troop would at least suggest two people but there is mainly Travis Aulsebrook who hails from Western Australia and only came to Melbourne in 2011 to excel as singer-songwriter and straightaway releasing his EP Open Up Slowly (find it under the name “Hudso

· Alice Peters-Burns · 2 min Frameless Hudson and Troop
Liu Bei

Liu Bei

What it is like to work for a non-commercial radio station? Well, it is a lot of, er, work that we do enjoy immensely, however. And it is unpaid which of course we do not enjoy a lot. Then again, we live without playlists which is wonderful. We are right there at the pulse of music and music pulses our blood if I may say so clumsily poetically on the first spring-like Saturday evening of this year. Thus, I may mutter beep if the BIG radio presenters were quicker than me playing a band. In this

· Alice Peters-Burns · 2 min band Goodness
Ant Savage

Ant Savage

Ant Savage‘s life has been music and long may it continue! 15 years as a musician, singer and above all songwriter, he has under his belt now and accordingly his work sounds accomplished, his songwriting seems effortless but the hard work does glimpse out in-between. He taught himself guitar as a teenager, released an acoustic album on a label in Australia, played in an electro indie synth band (yep!) which made it quite big, has appeared live on BBC AND completed a degree in music productio

· Alice Peters-Burns · 1 min Ant Savage Bedford
Marble Sounds
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Marble Sounds

Sometimes Belgium is the butt of jokes…I guess because it is such a small country and so confusing to many and also seems a by-word for European bureaucracy. I could sing the praises now and elaborate on the diverse landscape, the friendly people, the cartoons, the architecture and ooooh, the food, never mind the beers. And do not even get me started on chocolate. But of course this is a music blog and I dare you to give me a country that size with so many musicians…(yeah, alright, Ireland a

· Alice Peters-Burns · 2 min Brussels Leave a light on