At Sounds From The Other City 2012 I was asked to curate a stage under my Grey Lantern promoting moniker, confining my experience of that year's whole event to one sweltering pub called the Black Lion. I arrived at the venue at around 10am and left at 2am the next morning, with eight live acts, sound engineers, and a good few hundred people having passed through in between.
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In the second Nottingham scene round-up of 2013 we focus on some of the hottest new sounds filtering through the city as well as the regular release, festival and live updates.
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The music made by Savages, the four-piece London band who released their debut album Silence Yourself today, is a direct and linear thing.
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It's funny that while we're getting some of our brightest days right now here in Seattle, some of this week's most exciting new releases are some of the year's darkest.
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The day when newspapers, websites, the young and the young at heart, the lovably wicked and the total arseholes are united in their playing of pranks.
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The first pick of the day is the easiest of the bunch, you just need to make sure you are in town with your wrist band in good time as the early bird catches the wolf - Lone Wolf to be exact!
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John Shearer The era of the touring festival has by and large given way to massive destination and regional festivals – it seemingly being easier to bring a bunch of bands and tens of thousands of fans to one place than it is to bring a bunch of bands to hundreds of thousands of fans in a bunch of places – but sometimes a touring bill is so impressive that it warrants a fancy name of its own.
Read MoreIt's a thorny issue in the digital age - do people actually prefer the songs-first transience of the download code or the tangible connection of physical stock?
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The city of Liverpool brought us The Beatles, it's brought us Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher, and they've been European Capital of Culture in 2008.
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For Under the Radar 's 10th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2012.
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For Under the Radar 's 10th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2012.
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For Under the Radar 's 10th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2012.
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For Under the Radar 's 10th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2012.
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For Under the Radar 's 10th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2012.
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For Under the Radar 's 10th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2012.
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I'll begin with the sad news that Leeds entered 2013 without one of its most historic venues in The Well (formerly Joseph's Well).
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For Under the Radar 's 10th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2012.
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For Under the Radar 's 10th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2012.
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Under the Radar 's Best of 2012 issue is shipping out to stores and subscribers and will be on newsstands nationwide in January.
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The End of the Road festival, located at Larmer Tree Gardens in Salisbury, Dorset has become a haven for fans of music that either is, or sounds like it should be on the Bella Union label.
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London based four-piece Still Corners ' simple yet sweeping music is often labeled as a cinematic experience, which makes sense considering the band cites French New Wave and Italian horror movies as two of their biggest influences.
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While the Easter Weekend may have been a complete washout (in the bitterly cold East Midlands at least) our favourite time of the year, festival season, is fast approaching.
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Kyle Dean Reinford If you listen to Hospitality , the debut album from the band also called Hospitality , you may quickly find yourself in a game of "where are they from?" based on singer Amber Papini's accent and entries of any and all of the UK, Scandinavia or Australia/New Zealand would be perfectly reasonable.
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Here's a funny story about my encounter with Still Corners last month.
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With their debut full-length Creatures of an Hour , the London-based dream pop act Still Corners have expanded their sound considerably from past releases, with principal songwriter Greg Hughes allowing his music to break free from his tendency towards a pseudo-mod culture-inspired aesthetic that dominated the band's first release, 2008's still-appealing EP Remember Pepper? , occasionally at the expense of the music.
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Frank Yang I spent an inordinate amount of time at this year's SXSW chasing around London's Still Corners , my attempts to catch one of their many sets foiled by things like not noting the difference between AM and PM on set times, showcases falling three hours behind despite having only been running for two hours and the like.
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My big pick for tonight would be Metronomy at Music Hall of Williamsburg but it's sold out.
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When Tessa Murray sings "Stuck in a time machine/ That was just a dream," on "Cuckoo" , the lead-off track from Still Corners ' Creatures of an Hour , she sums up much of the dreamy, 1960s-obsessed band's most obvious attributes.
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For London UK's Still Corners, there has been a steady progression over the past four years or so.
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Still Corners are a band that we've been keeping a very close eye on here at The Line of Best Fit, ever since we featured their track 'Endless Summer' as a Song of the Day back in July 2010.
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It's fitting that as KEXP broadcasts for the first time internationally from the KEX Hostel in Reykjavik, Iceland, that the most well-known singer from that country, Björk , would be putting out a new album and topping this week's list of new releases.
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For a while, whenever I heard Still Corners , I could only wonder what might lie behind the misty smoke.
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They're all crazy about one another going round in circles until eventually Catherine drives Jim off the edge of a bridge leaving Jules to dispose of their ashes.
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This week's Spotifriday playlist featuring Nils Frahm, Ólafur Arnalds, Goldmund, New Look, Neon Indian and more.
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It's long been established that we here at The Line of Best Fit have a lot of love for music coming from the Nordic regions, and especially Sweden.
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With their debut album Creatures of an Hour , out October 10 on Sub Pop, Breaking More Waves favourites Still Corners have just released this new song Into The Trees , for free download.
Read MoreFlorence and the Machine hit the big time with their massive debut Lungs , and now they're set to follow up with an as-yet untitled album due out November 7th in the UK (no US release date yet).
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Festivals have come in for a bit of a bashing this year.
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