Bands & DJs
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In an attempt to escape the Swedish winter in 2011, Andreas Jonsson and Carl Jirestedt from Gothenburg started writing cute little pop songs to a project called Alpaca Sports. The first two songs ever recorded spread with an enormous speed thanks to blogs, radio stations, facebook and music magazines. And before they knew it the 300copies of the debut single “Just for fun” was sold out before the actual release date due to the high amount of pre orders. The next single “Telephone” will be released on a split 7” with the classic Swedish group Acid House Kings and next to writing songs for the upcoming debut album plenty of gigs and festivals are booked this spring. In May the band will cross the Atlantic and play at NYC Popfest. |
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anaesthetics anaesthetics are a Manchester based diy/alternative pop band consisting of two girls (Laura and Dahlia) and two boys (Martin & Mat). Formed in March 2012 they have self- released one single (Slow Trains), which will be followed by a second in August 2013 called Pulse. Martin & Mat met in obscure punk upstarts Atomic 16 (Fire Records) but rekindled their embers over a bunch of new songs written by Martin in his bedroom while tentatively learning the piano. Having written songs with shared boy/girl vocals, Mat invited his friend Laura to rehearsal as a guest vocalist.. This happy accident meant that soon the band strove for pure indiepop sunshine that echoed of The Velvet Underground and Belle & Sebastian. Laura’s heady vocals and a desire to make songs that people could dance to coupled with Martin’s nagging insistence for pop melodies soon became their trademark. Drums thumped and clattered, keyboards skewed, guitars drove and occasionally glockenspiels twinkled while tambourines shook.. The band began to share records with each other to find new ways of saying what they wanted to say to (e.g. Talking Heads/The Pixies/The Cure). With the addition of new guitarist Dahlia (who directed the video for the Slow Trains single) anaesthetics are now complete and are busy preparing for more videos, recordings and shows in unusual and interesting places. |
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Another Sunny Day DJs Brighton-based Another Sunny Day are Craig, Emily and Rob. They play indiepop old and new, twee, 60s pop, French pop, Britpop, Swedish indie, Post Punk, Garage Pop, Scottish Pop, Northern Soul & more. |
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A self-proclaimed "sissy pop band", the foursome marry the unbridled euphoria of the Hidden Cameras with the wry poeticism of Magnetic Fields to create literate, infectious pop gems. Members of the Aislers Set and Voxtrot appeared on their album Mattachine!'s stand out track, I Hate The War, and The Ballet have played with everyone from Casiotone For The Painfully Alone to Final Fantasy. - Ian Watson Recalling Holiday-era Magnetic Fields, these songs bop with heady buoyancy, yet are underpinned by complicated but universal themes: self-deception, infidelity without shame, war fatigue and finding love in a world of online hookups. |
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The Beautiful Word An odd couple for sure and best friends for years, front girls Emily Bryant and Megan Clifton's voices together make one singular unique texture. With band in tow they team super-tight vocal harmony with bouncy, vivid arrangement. The carefree and beautifully open-hearted nature of The Beautiful Word is particularly infectious live. They have featured on BBC Introducing and BBC6 by Phil Jackson, Kairen Kemp and Tom Robinson, and their tour dates have included venues from Paris to Dundee, festivals such as T in the Park (T Break Stage) Secret Garden, Beach Break Live and Playgroup, and support slots for Ellie Goulding, Marina Celeste and Greg Holden. |
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Big Wave Big Wave are a 5 piece guitar pop band from the sunny South West. The band is made up of old friends Ella (vocals/guitar), Rikki (guitar), Matt (drums), Pete (bass) and Mel (keys) who bonded in the local haunts of Torquay over a shared interest in pop music, alcohol and terrible dancing. During a busy 2012; the group released EP ‘The Roots of Love Come Tumbling Down’ on Soft Power Records and two singles: ‘Dying on the Vine’ on Art is Hard Records and ‘Only You’ on Beautiful Strange Records. As a result Big Wave have garnered lots of positive reaction, including being named by Fake DIY as ‘one of the country's most underrated new bands’. 2013 so far has seen the band play at London Popfest and Wales Goes Pop with a new single following shortly; keep your eyes peeled for ‘Goldmine’ which is set for a limited edition cassette release on Art Is Hard Records in early May. So if you like indiepop laden with a smattering of dreampop and more hooks than a tackle box in Rhyl, be sure to catch them at this year’s Indietracks. |
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bis bis are a Scottish indiepop band composed of John Disco, Manda Rin and Sci-fi Steven. In 1996, they famously appeared on BBC’s Top of the Pops, performing "Kandy Pop" and released a series of EPs, three of which entered the UK Singles Chart. Bis quickly won fans with The Delgados and The Beastie Boys, who signed them to the Chemikal Underground and Grand Royal labels respectively. They released three studio albums; The New Transistor Heroes (1997), Social Dancing (1999) and Return to Central (2001), gradually moving from frenetic punk pop towards a more electropop sound. The band reformed in 2010 to play at the Primavera festival, and will perform on the Friday night at this year’s Indietracks. |
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The Brilliant Corners In the 1980’s The Brilliant Corners were probably Bristol’s best known purveyors of indie guitar pop. From 1983 to 1993 the band released 10 singles and 5 albums. During this decade Indie chart success and John Peel’s attention brought them to a wider indie audience. The band are probably best known for the album ‘Somebody up there likes me’, and singles, ‘Brian Rix’ and ‘Teenage’. These feature bitter sweet trumpet laden songs and a sound that sits somewhere between The Kinks, Smiths and Go Betweens. However The Brilliant Corners sound also featured scratchy guitars and feedback reminiscent of Postcard Records Josef K and The Velvet Underground. This sound was prevalent on the albums ‘Growing up Absurd’ and ‘Joyride’. Such eclecticism meant that the band certainly polarised opinions! The band called it a day after the album ‘A History of White Trash’ (1993). Singer and songwriter Davey Woodward continues making music with The Experimental Pop Band. He has also released one solo album. Bob (drums) plays in Sundance. The others have retired to their villas in Spain. This year the album ‘Heart on Your Sleeve’ is released by Cherry Red Records. An anthology of the bands recordings, it is a definitive history of the band. This has prompted the band to get together for a few reunion gigs. It is well over 20 years since the band played live. |
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Camera Obscura are bringing their refined cinematic indiepop to Indietracks, marking the release of their forthcoming album, Desire Lines in June 2013. The Glasgow band released the albums, Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi (2001) and Underachievers Please Try Harder (2003), before enlisting Swedish producer Jari Haapalainen in 2006. The resulting album, Let’s Get Out Of The Country, featured entrancing pop gems such as "Lloyd I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken", alongside more downbeat yet melodic offerings. The band signed to the legendary 4AD label in 2009, and their fourth album My Maudlin Career again showcased the band’s sophisticated pop, including "French Navy" and "Honey In The Sun". 2010 saw the band tour Europe, USA, New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Indonesia. |
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Cars Can Be Blue Cars Can Be Blue started during the summer of 2002 after the dissolution of Nate’s cover band and Becky’s improv comedy group. Left with enough free time to enter themselves into a local music festival, Nate and Becky used this impromptu performance as the catalyst for their first attempts at songwriting and were surprised by how well they ended up working together. Cars Can Be Blue have shared stages with bands like Mates of State, The Lucksmiths, Jason Anderson/Wolf Colonel and xBxRx, stand-up comedians Eugene Mirman and Bobby Tisdale and even warmed crowds up for the hilarious Found Footage Film Festival. |
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Come Again DJs Come Again DJs, Andy and Murray, are a British comic double act, working in variety, radio, film and most successfully in television. They have been described as "the most illustrious, and the best-loved, double-act that Britain has ever produced". In a list of the 100 Greatest Pairings of Men drawn up by the British Men Institute in 2000, voted for by top industry professionals, Come Again were placed 14th. In September 2006, they were voted by the general public as number 2 in a poll of TV's Greatest Pairs of Men. |
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With a big mouth and a soprano ukulele David can turn the ordinariness of everyday life into a wry, witty and slightly magical pop tune. His songs are strongbow-fuelled, nostalgia trips with the odd joke to keep you interested. For most, the best part of the gig is when he stops singing about mixtapes, mums and the seaside and passes round a box full of home-made knitwear with his CDs inside. David is no stranger to Indietracks having been to nearly every festival as a paying customer - he can even remember when the main stage was the back of a HGV. |
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EXPENSIVE play loud electronic dream pop. They formed in June 2012 and include members of Arctic Circle, Child Mole and The Middle Ones. Inspirations include riot grrl, bangra, r'n'b and happy hardcore. They plan to release their first album in 2013. A gathering electro-pop sass storm Remember that moment when you realised you really like r'n'b. An EXPENSIVE show is like that happening, over and over again. |
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Fall Out Make Up is an irregular London club night featuring Ben and Carys (The Give It Ups) and Trev (Oddbox Records). They play punk-pop, power-pop, garage-pop, indie-pop and un-pop! |
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Fear of Men Fear of Men was born when Jess (vocals+ guitar) had been writing and home recording ambient songs as soundtracks to short films and Daniel (guitar) attended an exhibition of her work. The two began swapping mixtapes and started a project based on a shared love of melody and an eclectic mix of artists such as Eric's Trip, Grouper, Daniel Johnston, The Pixies and The Chills. The early demos that resulted from this collaboration created the ‘Hanna Shygulla Demos’, released by Sex Is Disgusting in February 2011, before the band’s debut 7”, ‘Ritual Confession’, was released on Italian Beach Babes in August of that year. Before the year’s end the band self-released the ‘Alice Munro Demos’, which featured the acclaimed track ‘Doldrums’. Joining Jess and Daniel in the group are Robyn on bass and Mike on drums. 2013 sees the band release their singles compilation, ‘Early Fragments’, on Kanine records as well as touring in the US and Mexico for the first time. |
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The Fenestration The Fenestration formed a couple of years ago after belatedly coming across nanoloop (Game Boy music cartridge) and thinking it was just the tool to make some simple music. Gina was a Marine Girl and Mark has been in the Television Personalities and Sportique. Lo-fi electronica using toy instruments and broken electronic games to weave a filmy mesh in which gentle vocals get temporarily ensnared, before evaporating in the sunshine. |
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Fever Dream East London trio Fever Dream play dark, fuzzy, menacing music that blurs the line from noisy new wave to angular post-punk. With an E.P. out on Underused Records and a single in the works for Odd Box, their hypnotic sound takes inspiration from Deerhunter, My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth whose footsteps they'll no doubt follow with their brooding, stylish tones. |
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Finnmark! Finnmark! was conceived from a conversation about about indiepop between good friends in a Gothenburg kitchen. Fuelled by a relentless hangover, jet black coffee, and a plate of day old kanelbullar, it made its way home to a cold house in Leeds. |
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The Fireworks The band began in secret in 2011 when Matthew would sing some of his songs over the phone lines to his friends. Over time they convinced him to start a real group so everyone could hear them. Close friends Emma (Pocketbooks), Isabel (Things In Herds), and Carys (The Give It Ups) were finally drafted in and The Fireworks began in a burst of noise, snap, crackle and P!O!P! They immediately started playing gigs — Indietracks, Indiepop Days Berlin and the Nottingham Indiepop Alldayer, and recorded a session for Dandelion Radio. Their recent EP was released on Shelflife. Sadly, Carys left after the single was recorded, but the band have also just recorded a second Dandelion Radio session, transmitted on Rocker’s show this month (March), with new drummer Shaun (ex-Wedding Present/ Popguns). |
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Flowers Despite only having formed in April/May last year, Flowers have already toured Europe with The Pains Of Being Pure Of Heart and recorded with Stuart Moxham of Young Marble Giants, whom they have now just supported at a sold out Dingwalls! Fittingly, Flowers draw a line between the joyous fuzzpop of the Pains and the minimalist brilliance of Young Marble Giants – with screaming distortion calming down to singer Rachel playing solo on a one-stringed bass. The trio create a wall of sound larger than the sum of their parts - catchy pop songs hidden in noise. The reception at the few gigs they have played to date, including London Popfest, has been nothing less than rapturous. The band have a 7" just out on Cloudberry, who say they may never have sold so many pre-orders before for any band or any record ever. As well as a single soon to arrive on Oddbox Records, Flowers will also be releasing a single and album with Fortuna POP!, who they're newly signed to. As well as playing concerts and festivals around London and the UK, the band will be visiting New York this summer for a second Popfest performance, and to record with Connor Hanwick (The Drums, TPOBPAH) |
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The French Defence The French Defence is Owen Lloyd. He writes pretty little songs about coffee, cats, the weather and passive-aggressive sexual jealousy, then plays them to people on his acoustic guitar. You'd like them, although you might not want your mum to hear all of the lyrics. Sometimes he records these songs with lots of other instruments as well. |
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Frozy Frozy are Irina, Nicol and Rhiannon sometimes joined by friends from other lands. They ask for little, and give plenty! Theirs is a dream-pop slumber-party that twangs with twin guitars entwined, and dips the chips in a bittersweet treat! Love songs played for sheer joy; a minimal twist of pounding hearts; a record player spilled over with Beat Happening and Wandering Lucy singles; a colossal rush of impulse, channeled as DIY enthusiasm! Their lo-fi approach is unfussed and effortless; an authentic promise of summer-spun rain, and disarming honesty. When they sing, it is as though they are singing to each other, and you’re accomplice to the conspiracy - but you already wanted in on their gang, to get into reckless pangs and tangles! Frozy also co-run the trans-atlantic-based Trilingual Records label, which has released their Pulling Daisies album. |
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Good Grief is a stompbox pop-punk band from Liverpool. Matiss and Will used to play together in The 255s, but that band broke up. Paul used to play bass in Three Minute Margin, but that band broke up too, so he seemed like a pretty good guy to have on board. We first started playing together in December 2011. |
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Haiku Salut are a Derbyshire-based trio that use accordions, ukeleles, glockenspiels, pianos, loopery and laptopery to create sounds that have been likened to early múm, Detektivbyrån and the soundtrack to Amélie. |
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Helen Love Helen Love is one of the bands who have better used the pop aesthetics and the fascination we all have for the colourful icons in pop culture, and we love them for that. We love them since they came out more than ten years ago, when the riot grrrl sound was going strong, with their first single and their tributes to Joey Ramone. The three girls from Swansea (lead by Helen herself, of course) were going to split up after they released the first single, but here they are (around twenty singles and four albums later), turned into one of the sensations of the international underground punk-pop scene. Purveyors of catchy melodic candies, exploding disco-indie-punk cut'n'paste, Helen Love have been favourites of John Peel and Joey Ramone (who even invited them to play in New York, and to sing with him on one of his solo albums), their songs have been covered by ASH (they have even played with Tim Wheeler on a Peel Session) and they've been supported since they started by Everett True (Melody Maker, CTCL, Plan B). |
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Formerly Bethan y Rachel, they went out into the big bad world and found a lovely new colleague and got ourselves a name, Jupiter In Jars. Playing folky/acoustic/sometimes happy/sometimes sad tunes involving as many instruments as we can, their names are Rachel Clark, Bethan Robinson and Camilla Chilvers. |
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Straight outta Derby, Lardpony are making a return to the first team squad after a few seasons out with babies, solo projects, and beards. They write pop songs that are so clever they could teach A-Level biology in a secondary school. |
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The Lovely Eggs The Lovely Eggs are an underground punk rock duo from Lancaster, England. They have a fierce punk rock ethos that music should have no rules. For Holly and David being in a band is a way of life. True to this, they live the way they play. Fiercely, constantly in search of the good times. With observational and often surreal lyrics about life The Lovely Eggs have a powerful stripped down sound: one vintage guitar amp, one Big Muff distortion pedal, a guitar and a drum kit. With releases in the UK, Europe, USA and Japan, The Lovely Eggs have played hundreds of gigs around the UK, USA and Europe supporting the likes of Half Japanese, Shonen Knife, The Slits, The Television Personalities and Art Brut as well as a two month tour of America and a string of dates at SXSW in Austin, Texas. They have produced three albums: 'If You Were Fruit' (Cherryade Records, 2009), 'Cob Dominos' (Cherryade Records, 2011) and 'Wildlife' (Egg Records, 2012), which featured the Gruff Rhys-produced single Allergies, originally released on 7" on the Too Pure Singles Club label. The Lovely Eggs have become well known for their live performances and have played everywhere from Amsterdam squats and Los Angeles scrap yards to steam trains in Ripley and charity shops in Leeds. |
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The Magic Theatre are Sophia Churney (vocals) and Dan Popplewell. Returning as The Magic Theatre with Sophia on vocals, 2010's debut album London Town brought their enchanting baroque pop storytelling back to the indie world and sealed a contract with Indietracks-favourites Elefant Records. Now on the eve of a second beautiful album 'The Long Way Home', don't miss them weave an uplifting emotional tapestry of new and old. |
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Making Marks In 2012, Making Marks arose from the ashes of Norwegian indie pop band mylittlepony/My Little Pony. Like that mythical bird, you now. Yes, that’s us. As mylittlepony we released two full length albums, won awards in Spain toured several times all over Europe, and also visited the US and Canada, including an official showcase at SXSW 2011. |
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Martha Martha is Naomi, Nathan, Daniel and Jc, a vegan straight edge pop group from Pity Me in Durham. Since their first show in Durham in December 2011 have released music on Discount Horse, Win Htein Records and Odd Box Records and have toured up and down the A1 in their tiny van. On top of that the band closed the Foreign Invasion stage at Plan-it-X fest 2012 in Bloomington, Indiana. It's been a busy year for the third best band in Pity Me. Martha have mastered that neat Buzzcocks trick of riding those gloriously glowing guitars with sweet, comfortingly-fey voices singing in irresistible harmony. In short, they're pretty darn great. |
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The McTells Between 1986 - 1994 the Mctells released seven-inch records, cassettes and 2 LPs, on Bi-Joppiter, Frank, K International Pop Underground, Little Teddy, Four Letter Word and Vynal Japan. |
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The Middle Ones Hailing from the North but living in the East, the Middle Ones formed in their time as undergrads at UEA. Their sound is simple yet strong, with a wonderfully warm but textured character. On stage they charm with a modest sense of humour, honest lyrics and simple but pleasing use of cheap looking instruments that fit their lo-fi care-free musicality so well. |
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Milky Wimpshake Referred to by some as punk folk and twee skiffle, Newcastle Upon Tyne based Milky Wimpshake are considered witty, satirical, and both irritating and utterly enjoyable. They have released numerous singles and compilation tracks on assorted indie labels since forming in 1993. The indefatigable and slowly ascending UK based act have sporadically put out three full albums, beginning with 1998’s “Bus Route to Your Heart” released on singer Pete Dale’s own legendary Slampt label, 2001’s “Lovers, Not Fighters” , was recorded at First Avenue studio, in Heaton and issued in 2002 on the ultra-hip Troubleman Unlimited label (also home of Erase Erata, Rogers Sisters) in the States. 2005’s “Popshaped”, was released on Fortuna Pop! in the UK and Europe. For many Milky Wimpshake are the spiritual godfathers of the now thriving North-East music scene, and as überlord of the Slampt organisation Pete was responsible for launching a hundred fanzines and as many bands, Kenickie included. Pete sings and strums the guitar and was formerly in Razorblade Smile and Red Monkey and also rocks it in Chronicity and folks it in Pete Dale and The Beta Males; Christine plays bass and sings in the background sometimes; while current stick-wielder is Ricky, who succeeds Ms. Joey Ramone, Mr. Grant Jones and Chris Lanigan (also of Spraydog) on drums. |
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The Mini Skips We are The Mini Skips from Sheffield. We comprise two happy popkids: Vinnie (ex-Sweet Nothings and Marygreenes) and Markie (ex-Parallelograms and Velodrome 2000 and occasional purveyor of Girlpop). We play gentlefolkysmileyindiepop on acoustic guitars and ukulele and melodica and glockenspiel and tambourine and shakey egg. Y'know, all the usual indiepop instrumentation. We are great friends but one of us is a sweet, naive romantic and the other an ageing, cynical curmudgeon (you can have fun trying to guess which is which before coming to see us) and our views on some of the minutiae of life aren't perfectly aligned. These worldview differences have seeped into some of our songs and turned them into rancourously melodic arguments. Wholesome squabbling fun for all the family! Photo by author and photographer Jude Calvert Toulmin |
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Monnone Alone As bass player and co-songwriter in Australian band The Lucksmiths, Mark Monnone was responsible for such radiant moments as 'Take This Lying Down' and 'T-Shirt Weather'. Since The Lucksmiths' demise in 2009, Mark has sharpened the focus on his songwriting and resurfaced, with heart on sleeve, singing tales of urban romance and misadventure. Having also spent time touring the US and Europe regularly with San Francisco band Still Flyin', Mark managed to squeeze in the odd solo show as Monnone Alone, along with an assorted cast of friends, buddies, pals, cronies, deadbeats etc, surprising audiences with his winning combination of concise pop tunes, warm stage presence and off-the-wall banter. |
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Northern Spies is Astrid Wiezell of Stockholm, Sweden singing and playing guitar with her heart on her sleeve. While Astrid has been playing in bands and on her own for years, Northern Spies is new since the summer of 2012. In December last year, EardrumsPop released the EP My Middle Names featuring four original songs and a cover of 'First Bus' by The Smittens in Swedish. The EP also features two covers by Let's Whisper. 2013 promises plenty more to come, including a debut album. |
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Somewhere between the nostalgia of the years in which they grew up and their will to bring something spontaneous and contemporary, Pale Spectres find a perfect balance with catchy and melodic pop songs. The influences of the Parisian quartet range from The Field Mice to Craft Spells, including The Smiths, The Wake, Belle And Sebastian or The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart. That's why indiepop lovers will definitely enjoy a tuneful songwriting that proves its intensity on their live shows. |
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The Pastels The Pastels, hailing from Glasgow, released a series of records for labels such as Creation and Rough Trade between 1982 and 1985, and featured on the NME’s famous C86 compilation. However, by the time they released their first two albums Up for a Bit With The Pastels (1987) and Sittin’ Pretty (1989), their sound had moved from garage pop-punk through to ballads with synth orch splashes. They subsequently signed with Domino Records and released two albums, Mobile Safari (1995) and Illumination (1997), which saw them develop a warm, melancholic sound. They then went on to release a soundtrack to David Mackenzie’s film The Last Great Wilderness (featuring a collaboration with Jarvis Cocker) in 2003. More recently they released album Two Sunsets in collaboration with Japanese band Tenniscoats, to widespread critical acclaim. The band now operate their own Geographic Music label through Domino and are partners in Glasgow's Monorail Music shop. In February this year the band announced they would release Slow Summits, their first full length album in 16 years, on Domino Records. |
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Ready Steady Girls are DJ Duo Kev and Linda. Eclectic taste in music but passionate collectors of 60’s Girl & Girl Group records. Inspired by great responses to DJ sets at the legendry Da Doo Ron Ron Brighton & the mighty Great Big Kiss London they are looking forward to hosting their first RSG Weekender July 13/14th in their hometown of Congleton Cheshire. They say: We are so excited and honoured to be invited to play at Indietracks…. So come along and dance your Shirelles off to our groovy, girltastic tunes from Dusty to France Gall, Supremes to Connie Francis. |
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Seabirds are a brand new guitar pop band from Nottingham, UK, who make beautifully melodic music with loud guitars, drums and their voices. The band have not been together long, but they are already as loving and devoted as an old married quintet. They write songs about the north of England, but are devout Midlanders. They like boats but not the sea breeze. They are wary of well-trodden roads. They are a mass of mess and hope but find solace in the sounds of the Solway Firth, and the slow swoosh of the wind turbines that adorn beautiful places. They are individual but harmonious. They are joyously melancholic. They want to write songs forever, and they are so cool it hurts. |
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The Secret History The Secret History is an NYC-based band featuring songwriter Michael Grace, Jr. and his long time co-conspirators from the adored (but obscured) indiepop group My Favorite. The band features the debut of vocalist Lisa Ronson (daughter of glam rock legend Mick Ronson) along with Jamie Babich (of Nouvellas.) Grace's lyrics project dreams upon bare bedsit walls, while Ronson's vocals place her as the femme fatale in a new wave noir. Behind them, guitarist Darren Amadio, keyboardist Kurt Brondo, bassist Gil Abad, and drummer Tod Karasik tailor soundtracks to ever changing moods. Together, they are creating a kind of cinematic post-pop, drawing from the rainy jangles of C86, the art school buzz and stomp of the 70s, and the light and air of the classic girl groups. The end result has drawn comparisons to The Patti Smith Group, Roxy Music, The Smiths, and Felt. |
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The Soulboy Collective Formed 1994 in Kornwestheim, Germany, it took The Soulboy Collective 17 years to release their debut album "Clique Tragedy" on Firestation Records. Originally a group of DJs and musicians, united by their love for Northern Soul, UK pop und Sergio Tacchini track tops, they only managed to release a couple of remixes (for Electronic etc.) and one song (for a fanzine compilation) until 2009. Following the release of the single “Casino Action” (on Fastcut Records) the remaining founding member Jürgen Dobelmann recorded "Clique Tragedy" with Ahlie Schaubel (Tramontana) and Antenne Danger (High Voltage Humans, Damenkapelle) helping out on vocals. The 2013 line-up includes Felix Homeier on guitar and new singer Lexa Bippus. The songs feature Northern Soul samples, New Order basslines and eighties indie pop guitar elements, delivered with Lightning Seeds-esque naïvety, a soft spot for Saint Etienne's retro chic and DIY production ethics. It's the sound of young Kornwestheim. |
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Spinning Yarns DJs London DJ team Spinning Yarns are Alice and Daniel (Cosines) and Isabel (The Fireworks). They made their name DJing at craft events and they are available for knit-ins, bah mitzvahs, weddings and funerals! |
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Still Corners Still Corners is the musical project of songwriter/producer Greg Hughes and vocalist Tessa Murray. The London-based duo signed with record label Sub Pop in 2011 and issued their first full-length debut, Creatures of an Hour, to rave reviews. In October 2013 the band released a new single, “Fireflies”, which was named “Best New Track” by Pitchfork. In February this year they announced that their second album, Strange Pleasures, will be released via Sub Pop in May. |
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Stolen Wine Social DJs Stolen Wine Social is a London club night that plays indiepop, C86, indie, electropop, riot grrrl and anything else they fancy at the appropriate drunken hour! |
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Sitting on a carpet covered in paint and the sprawled out works of Julio Cortazar, Tunabunny has fallen down the rabbit hole and is begging you to follow, even as they doubt your own existence. Pop/rock music in the 21st century is a played-out corpse picked over by overprivileged boys and girls hoping to manufacture a personality for themselves out of something that other people think is cool. That is why Tunabunny thinks of pop/rock as something that should be destroyed, or at the very least subverted, but would probably be better for everyone involved if it simply ceased to exist. The members of Tunabunny are interested in revolution, which, contrary to popular thought, ceased to exist in the pop/rock world a long time ago, even as a latent impulse. As such, Tunabunny wonders just what it is doing here, and what exactly it hopes to accomplish. |
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The Tuts The Tuts are a 3 piece all girl punk band from West London. In 2012 they released a self titled EP with heart-wrenching lyrics by front-woman Nadia Javed paired with overdriven punchy guitar riffs. The sound is propelled by Beverley Ishmael's drumming, who co-founded the band at high school with Nadia. They were joined in 2011 by Harriet Doveton (of Colour Me Wednesday) who brought melodic bass lines and backing vocals to complete their feisty and distinctive sound. Although the band's live performance is packed with punk and attitude, their lyrical content suggests vulnerability and playfulness, the pains of growing up, friendships and first loves. In 2013 they released their long awaited single 'Tut Tut Tut', which shares the issues and experiences of being a female musician. They were also recently championed by Kate Nash and supported her in London, which then led to being chosen as the main support on her UK tour. |
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The Understudies reputation as an enthralling electric live band continues to grow with every shake of singer Brian's quiff. Fragile and robust in equal measures in the grand tradition of British guitar bands like The Smiths they stand out as unique in London's indiepop music scene. Their single "Everyone Deserves At Least One Summer of Love" is available from Odd Box Records. They make the kind of dreamy indiepop that Felt peddled in their prime, tinged with a caustic wit last seen dribbling from Luke Haines' mouth. |
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The Wave Pictures are David Tattersall, Franic Rozycki and Jonny ''Huddersfield'' Helm. In 1998 Franic and David lived in a village called Wymeswold where they started playing music together, with Hugh J. Noble on drums. The band was called Blind Summit. When Hugh decided he didn't want to play drums he went to Exeter to study Philosophy instead. The band changed it's name to The Wave Pictures. Hugh was replaced by several drummers, until Jonny "Huddersfield" Helm became the permanent replacement. For a few years The Wave Pictures have played sporadically in the UK, France and New York. During this time highlights have included playing at the Mofo Festival in Paris at the invitation of friends Herman Dune, and playing shows with Herman Dune and The Jeffrey Lewis Band. David also sang The Wave Pictures song "Dust Off Your Heart" with Herman Dune on a radio session for the great John Peel. The Wave Pictures have also served as backing band and co-songwriters for John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats, the results featuring on a seven-inch single released by 4AD records. |
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When Nalda Became Punk When Nalda Became Punk started as the solo project of Elena Sestelo (Vigo, Spain). In 2006 she gathered some songs, and released “Tiny noises make tiny music” her first demo, though at the time the name of the project was just Nalda. Later on, in 2011 Roberto Cibeira joined the band and the actual formation of When Nalda Became Punk began the recording of their first 7” single for Pebble Records released on August. During 2012 the band played several shows, including Madrid Popfest and recorded their debut album, “A farewell to youth”. As the previous single, it was produced and recorded by Eva Guilala and Ivan Juniper from the Spanish band Linda Guilala at their Kaiju Studios (Vigo, Spain) and was mixed and produced by Ian Catt (producer of Saint Etienne, the Field Mice, the School, Nosoträsh, the Proctors, etc). The album was released by Shelflife Records at the beginning of 2013. |
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Without Feathers Without Feathers are Nat, Emma & Rory. Nat used to be in Monkey Swallows the Universe and is currently in The Figureheads. Emma used to be in Standard Fare and is currently in Ely. Rory used to be in Rory McVicar and is currently in IT. |
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Woog Riots In summer 2013 the German/Italian duo Woog Riots will present their new album with the programmatic title 'From Lo-Fi to Disco!' and that's what perfectly describes the Woog Riots sound: a unique mixture consisting of quirky indie pop, boy/girl vocals with a Lo-Fi attitude of singing, electronic beats and synthesizers. Some call it tweelectro! Silvana Battisti and Marc Herbert started their popcareer in 2004 putting together their own and international compilation album in tribute to iconic Manchester band The Fall and Mark E Smith. Their underground hit 'People working with computers', from 2008 album PASP, brought Woog Riots some welcome airplay in the UK, from John Peel successor Hugh Stevens. The band’s upbeat live shows have been celebrated from across Europe from Helsinki to London and across the Atlantic in New York and San Francisco. In their songs you might recognize sounds of DFA, Moldy Peaches, Young Marble Giants, B-52's and many more. In February 2013 Woog Riots created a song for an exhibition called 'Powerpoint' at David Zwirner’s art gallery, New York. The New York press described the song as being "...an up-beat, euro-pop dance tune that sounds like a kid’s band version of Kraftwerk“. |