I wanted to kick start the ‘Introducing’ features again on the site as I have been neglecting them over the past few months owing to the podcast taking priority. I was approached by a PR manager about a talented soul called Matt Finucane who lives in Brighton, he likes music, writing and horror films but mainly music, in fact he admits that it’s a compulsion.

He’s released a slew of recordings over the past couple of years and is about to drop his new album in April, we caught up with him for a chat.

To celebrate 30 years of Farnborough Groove, Vol 12 will be released on 1st April 2021 and is available to sample/pre-order NOW

It comes in at a staggeringly reasonable £5.99 and is available to purchase via iTunes, it will also be available on all digital platforms.

Jay Moussa-Mann is an idiosyncratic songwriter whose songs draw on myriad sources. A writer and filmmaker, she released her debut album, Little Deaths in 2019. She has been played repeatedly on BBC Introducing, Tom Robinson’s Show on BBC Radio 6, The Bob Fischer Show on BBC Tees, as well as performing live sessions on BBC Radio Tees. Jay has just released her brilliant single 'What Makes You Think?' and is gearing up towards another album release later this year.

Alongside the rescheduled shows, the band have also announced a handful of additional UK dates, with the tour now taking in stops in Lincoln, Bristol, Hull, Liverpool and Leeds.

Detroit, in the 1960s, the home of both soul and punk rock. Smokey Robinson and the MC5. In it's small satellite town of Flint, lived Rick Hickman, a blues guitarist influenced by both of these traditions. Rick channeled these influences into cutting his own 45 on the private press Special Edition Records label and that’s where he expected it to end.

Channelling a broad and sweeping dark-pop appeal, ‘I Confess’ continues the foundations built with ‘Bone Collector’ and creates this wonderfully warm and airy aesthetic in the process. With its rich and ethereal energy running throughout, she has returned with a truly masterful release that sets her far apart from much of what we hear day-to-day in the alt-pop scene.

Having already found a fan in Mary Anne Hobbs, who has played his previous material on her BBC 6 Music show multiple times in recent months, South London-based producer Zaflon is back to his winning ways once again as he delivers his bouncing new single ‘Till The Meds Wear Off (Let’s Dance)’.

IMPLODING THE MIRAGE TOUR

RESCHEDULED DATES CONFIRMED FOR MAY / JUNE 2022

++ EXTRA SCOTTISH DATE ADDED ++

“Leather clad cigarette chomping Outlaws” - CLASH

“Ambition, brutal honesty and ferocity the word’s out, The Howlers are ones to watch” - The Line of Best Fit

RSD DROPS RETURN

Record Store Day 2021 to place across Saturday 12th June and Saturday 17th July

Smith’s new album features 6 live tracks recorded at the Jazz Standard in NYC, plus 2 studio collaborations with the rock icon

Iggy Pop and Dr. Lonnie’s version of Donovan’s 1965 hit Sunshine Superman is released today and available HERE

On Friday 5th March, Fyfe Dangerfield frontman of Mercury Prize and BRIT Award nominated band Guillemots releases The Birdwatcher EP, his first body of work in a decade.

Did you read about the couple that had been told that they had won the Euro Millions jackpot of £182million only to receive a call moments later to advise that because the Direct Debit payment didn’t go through, they hadn’t? it made me smile in a sick, sadistic and rather twisted way though I guess I’ll just blame this on lockdown!

THE ZEROS TOUR SET FOR SEPTEMBER INCLUDING TWO NIGHTS AT BRIXTON ACADEMY

ALL TICKETS ON SALE NOW

Scott Matthews Announces Autumn / Winter Tour

Audacious new album ‘New Skin’ out 14th May on Shedio Records

“Draped with a heady and nostalgic fuzz…an excellent second album- 8/10”- The Line Of Best Fit

After gaining much experience in the industry Ione has now decided to pour her energy into her own music. Following on from a number of single releases, Ione now presents her new EP ‘The Tide Is Changing’, consisting of three very candid tracks. At once personal and relatable, Ione is a master of story-telling. Join us as we delve a little deeper into each of the songs features on the EP…

The often disconcerting honesty and the raw pain that pulses throughout his street poetry is disarming and, at times, deeply moving. Through exposing his own vulnerabilities on ‘nhs’ – “It always rains when it's sunny” and imparting a level of universal reassurance becomes weirdly comforting, even though he depicts life as “the same old shit, different day”.

Not only are the singles’ titles self-explanatory but Wilde has opened a gateway into her past by returning full circle to her South London roots, combining her sharp-witted lyricism through Spoken Word/Rap alongside her more familiar style husky, punky soul vocals.