After playlist #50 went live, I had just a few new tracks to showcase for you so decided to take a couple of weeks off, now I’ve had a bit of a rest from doing them every 2-3 days, I will be approaching things a little slower, that’s not to say that if a sudden deluge of new material comes beating down my door that I won’t be uploading it as soon as I can but I don’t anticipate having to do so 3-4 times a week which was really starting to take its toll on me (I’m 50 in a couple of months!)

So, we have another 9 incredible acts and bands for you, there are some real gems in amongst this collection, please make time to listen to them all and explore them further if you can, the second act ‘My Baby’ are an incredible live act and have just dropped a new record, plenty of new material to check out right there!

As we near the end of April, dare I say that Summer is finally on the way? the clocks have gone forward, we have an extra hour in the day and that has certainly benefitted my 2 dogs who now get an evening walk instead of just a daytime trip to the park.

We are now starting to hit festival season and this weekend, I’m off to RATTLERFEST which is a small festival in Cornwall that takes place on a cider farm, what could possibly go wrong? Bands including Utah Saints, Dub Pistols & The Feeling will be playing, Scott Mills off the radio will be there to play a live DJ set full of club bangers and there are LOADS of other bands and acts performing over the 3 days across a variety of stages, can’t wait to get down there and get involved!

Tonight, Bristol O2 Academy saw legendary Britpop heroes SLEEPER performing a show celebrating the 25th anniversary of their sophomore album ‘The IT Girl’.

Released in 1996, the album has gone platinum with over 300,000 sales worldwide and it spawned 4 top 20 singles which really helped to out the band on the map alongside other Britpop acts such as Suede, Blur, Pulp, Elastica and Supergrass.

These days, the term ‘legend’ is used a little too loosely for my liking, a ‘legend’ to some might be a mate who gets a round in at the bar, is a designated driver on a stag night or someone who books the annual Club 18-30 holiday to Benidorm but to me, a ‘legend’ is someone who has made a real impact in their chosen field, a sports personality, an inventor or maybe a member of a world famous group called Sister Sledge who found their fame in the 70s and became pin-ups of the disco movement. Imagine my surprise when I get a call from a friend who runs a PR company, asking if I’d like to interview Kathy Sledge, the primary vocalist of Sister Sledge……believe me, after I wound my jaw back up, I was keen as mustard to make this happen. A call was set up with Kathy, me in my son’s bedroom, her on a settee in her fine looking home in Pennsylvania and armed with a bunch of questions, I went to work.

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There’s something to be said about walking around a field in the heart of Cornwall, the gentle Spring air blowing through your hair and the sound of live music in the background. This was what I was greeted with when I arrived at Rattlerfest, a festival that takes place on Healeys Cider Farm which is a nestled nicely in Penhallow, a small village between Truro and Newquay. The only thing I was keeping everything crossed for was the weather, would it behave? Hey, this is Cornwall, it’s ALWAYS sunny in Cornwall they told me, read on to find out if it did indeed behave itself and to learn more about how my weekend went.

We chat to talented rock trio Everafter, based in East London. In January 2022, Everafter recorded their brand new single ‘ASAP’ with producer Matt Williams at Soundlab Studios in Debden. Once again the band have created a heavy sounding hard rock track and are really pleased with Matt’s production – the song has now been released and is available for streaming. We warn you, it's epic.

At the start of April, hip-hop artist M. J. Meyers released his debut album, a 7-track long body of work called Hollow Shell of a Better Man (A Painful Representation of an Unsatisfying Existence).

With this energetic, single beaming full of life there is a slightly darker and more personal side to the song with SPACEJVNKY showing his emotions through the power of his music.

Finally getting to play at the revered Liverpool Philharmonic a good eighteen months after the originally planned date (thanks to you-know-what!) former Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason and his band brought a raft of rarely played tracks to the masses on what is being termed the 'Echoes Tour'. I for one was hoping this meant an airing for the 25-minute opus and before 'Dark Side of the Moon' was released, arguably Floyd's finest achievement to that point - but more on that later.

Yes folks, quite possibly the BEST little festival in the Southwest is back with a vengeance and the lineup is looking hotter than ever this year!

This Friday, LEIF VOLLEBEKK releases a brand-new LP of live recordings titled 'New Waves’. The new LP arrives as Leif prepares for a string of UK dates this April and May - full details can be found below.

Bastille took us to the future on Friday night in a visual spectacular on a grand scale.

After witnessing the stripped down, laid back album launch sow in Bristol a month or so ago, we were keen to experience the full shebang Bastille show and were certainly not disappointed.

With Easter weekend out of the way, it’s time to detox from chocolate eggs and indulge yourselves with another 9 tracks from some brilliant unsigned bands and artists.

Whilst you were all scoffing your way through your Easter treats, yours truly was busy scanning the web for killer new music that will keep you entertained until you get back to normal.

I’ve selected 9 incredible acts to showcase for you, again, there’s something for everyone on the playlist including Trip-Hop, rock, electronica and just about everything in between.

It’s not every day that you get to chat to the front man of a band that have made such a mark on the UK music scene. I first heard of The Amazons years back when they were just starting out and after falling in love with their first two albums, I was keen to learn more about what had gone into their next long player titled ‘How Will I Know If Heaven Will Find Me?’ set for release on 2nd September.

We chatted about the direction that the band are going in, how the global pandemic affected them, a very amusing story about being bitten by a horsefly at Reading Festival resulting in a piggyback ride from a member of Enter Shikari and Matt’s favourite memories of their recent arena tour supporting Royal Blood.

They’ve been on a 7 date tour of the UK with Jah Wobble & The Invaders of the Heart, Wasted Youth and Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls in support. Tonight was the finale of the tour and saw the tour bus pull up outside the O2 Academy in Bristol for the final hurrah, we were there to capture the action.

My anticipation for this much delayed gig rocketed to levels far above the sky in recent days - yes, a gig originally scheduled for April 2020, put off and put over not once, but twice. The ‘Re-Animator’ LP had endured a muted release, despite containing some startlingly brilliant songs from surely the most exciting band of the last 15 years.

Well folks, it has finally happened, we have reach a landmark with musomuso.com, today heralds the 50th playlist that we have featured on the site. Granted, I’ve been doing playlists for some time now but I’ve never really tracked them through so I lose count as to the actual number that I’m up to.

With 50 playlists under our belts, we expect sponsors to come flocking in with ludicrous offers or equipment, music and maybe even cold hard cash but if not, you know what? we don’t care, we LOVE what we do here at musomuso and hope that you (the listeners) enjoy it too.

Since the tail end of 2020 when we started to publish these playlists, we have helped exactly 450 acts to get their music out to a wider audience and hopefully allowed them to open more doors as a result. It really is that simple, we publish the playlists, you listen to the music on them, simple!

So, what have we in store for #50? Are there any special guests? high profile acts? in a word….no! BUT, you will find another 9 stunningly talented acts who thoroughly deserve to be here.

We received news of Mark Nevin's new album 'While The Kingdom Crumbles' which is set to be released on April 22nd, you'll probably remember him from his time in Fairground Attraction and also his work with Morrissey, Kirsty MacColl and Sandie Shaw.

Another playlist closer to the magic 50 but lets not wait for that, lets celebrate the incredible talent that have been lucky enough to make it onto #49!

I have been scouring the tracks over at musosoup.com where I am fortunate enough to locate about 90% of the acts that get added to the playlists and there is certainly no shortage of amazing acts out there that deserve 5 minutes of your hard earned time.

If you can spare 5 minutes, how about sparing 30 minutes in order to listen to all 9 of the acts on the playlist, maybe you can do so on your daily commute, or at lunchtime if you’re alone? either way, do try and make the time to check it out.