Ronika - Automatic
I often get accused of being an indie snob. I’m not, it’s just that most pop music is fucking terrible. Ronika bucks the trend with this sexy, fresh, catchy, seductive electronic funk track.
11 Mar 2012
BlackJamRedPansy
An ungainly name hides a wonderful sound. BlackJamRedPansy is the solo project of a Norwich based solo artist Jack Spelman, a Soundcloud discovery about which nothing more is online – but all the bleeps and blops, choppy piano, soaring strings, samples aplenty, blotted reverb and curious micro-melodies were more than enough to prick up our ears. Watch this space for more.
28 Feb 2012
PET - Wear Black
Some creepy Scottish goodness for you here from unsigned Scottish band PET, reminiscent perhaps of Delicatessen‘s dark magic…
18 Feb 2012
Sandra Kolstad
Grown-up-pop-princess Sandra Kolstad plays at Roundhouse Rising tomorrow night, all the way from Oslo. She’s like a talented and energetic performer by all accounts, and her new single, streaming below, should give you a taste. We’re excited.
16 Feb 2012
Mat Riviere unveils "not even doom music"
After his 2010 debut album “Follow Your Heart”, lo-fi solo artist Mat Riviere has put out a trailer for the long-awaited follow up, to be entitled “not even doom music”. This is something to be excited about. Trust. Keep your eyes on Mat’s Soundcloud and Facebook to hear more as he (hopefully) drip-feeds us new stuff. And in case you’re not yet familiar with the work of mister Mat Riviere (who can be found on twitter posing as @meretrivia) the song below was the compulsively awesome title track from album number one.
12 Feb 2012
12 Feb 2012
Snipe on DIY Radio
Snipe’s music editor John Rogers has started hosting a monthly radio show on DIY Radio. This episode features an interview with former Snipe cover star David Thomas Broughton and tracks by lots of bands that have featured in the mag and on Daily MPfree over the last few months. Enjoy!
04 Feb 2012
Thieves by Idles
The debut video from this Bristolian quintet. Idles channel the wirey, angular guitar pop of 2004, adding more than a hint of Foals’ intricate math-rock while simultaneously paying jerky, impassioned vocal respect to The Maccabees’ Orlando Weeks. They manage to do all this without sounding dated or in awe of their guitar+bass+drum toting peers. 2012 looks set to be an exciting year for Idles. Catch them at The Drop in Stoke Newington, February 25th.
31 Jan 2012
Tonight in London - Giana Factory gig and Psychic Hearts book launch
Stuck for summat to do? Here are two cool things that are going on this eve in LDN town.
The brilliant young Danish trio pictured above, Giana Factory, are playing the Lexington tonight. Elements of Chicks on Speed, Telepathe and creative alt-rock influences combine into a band that is just teeming with potential.
And before that at Beach on Cheshire Street (just off Brick Lane), Velvet Cell launch “Psychic Hearts”, a book of dreamy, textured, evocative pictures by emerging photographer and music industry insider Sandra Croft. Buy it for £11 here.
Cool!
26 Jan 2012
Sleep Party People - A Dark God Heart
This haunting new video premiered today over at The Guardian. A spookily bemasked child searches an empty bath, set to Sleep Party People’s eerie, tinkling dream-pop, and finds something unexpected lurking in the water.
17 Jan 2012
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
- Diary of the shy Londoner
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
- 9 poems about London: one for each of your moods
- Nice map of London's fruit trees shows you where to pick free food
- Peter Bayley has worked for 50 years as a cinema projectionist in East Finchley
- The best church names in London, and where they come from
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- A unique collection of photos of Edwardian Londoners
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
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