Category Archive: music

The Great Escape: Day Three

The final countdown, do-do-do-do. Yes, seemingly so soon after it had begun, The Great Escape’13 had already reached its last day. The closing Saturday of the festival started as all the coolest events… Read More

The Great Escape: Day Two

Amid hangovers and weary limbs after the opening day’s festivities, the second instalment of The Great Escape’13 creaked into life Friday lunchtime, yet it didn’t take long for things to hit full throttle.… Read More

The Great Escape: Day One

There’s little denying that Brighton in the Spring sunshine is a location of absolute magnificence, so when you add 350 amazing bands playing in over twenty venues around the city to sixteen thousand… Read More

Our Top 5 acts to see at Great Escape

This week, Something You Said is heading to Brighton, on England’s sunny south coast for The Great Escape. The three-day festival and convention always entertains, informs and is firmly established as Europe’s answer to… Read More

Is Tropical try to find a light bulb

Is Tropical are a three-piece hailing from London. Formed in 2009, they’ve already garnered an impressive following, and touring with Klaxons, The Big Pink and Egyptian Hiphop has sealed their place on the… Read More

Interview: Getting To Know Emily Grove

Singer/songwriter Emily Grove recently completed a tour of the United Kingdom with Jarrod Dickenson and David Ford. We caught up with her for a conversation about her recordings, her music tastes and about acting… Read More

We go dancing with Flying Steps

Last month, World champion breakdance crew Flying Steps went to Australia for Red Bull Flying Bach, which fused their cool dance style with the elegant music of 18th century composer, Johann Sebastian Bach. While… Read More

Poliça and Vernon Have a Tiff

When Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon says your band is “the best thing I’ve ever heard,” you know you have something good. And when the  the angel-voiced, hobo-chic Vernon sings a duet with your band… Read More

Beardyman makes an album in an hour

We nerd out over the BeardyTron5000_MkII. What the hell is that, you ask? Beardyman explains all: Hello Beardyman! There is a lot of equipment involved in your new shows. What does this now include… Read More

Kirin J Callinan’s Tales From The Crypt

Beneath St James Cathedral, a lone figure stood. Licentious in nature (if only while onstage), a small few hundred, rubbing elbow-to-shoulder-to-mouth-to-nose, packed in like sardines to catch a glimpse of the flickering flame… Read More

Read This Before You Play Music In Public

These are the rules. I didn’t make them up. These are inalienable truths, a part of the divine spectrum of unquestionable constants that hold our universe together. There might be those who feel… Read More

Interivew: Getting to know Jarrod Dickenson

New York-based, Waco-born singer/songwriter, Jarrod Dickenson, recently released his second longplayer and has just finished a massively successful tour of the United Kingdom. We found out more:  I am a Texan, a New… Read More