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Wake up to … Turbina

Turbina is a rock band from Mexico. Today is Wednesday. These two facts aren’t related. Turbina plays an easy going rock sound. This song has a playful slide that adds an extra layer to the track. These facts ARE related. They have been doing the rounds in Mexico City, getting some new fans with their…
Captives on the carousel – The Garden

“Lord knows you should be in bed” Gosh! I’m 10 and they still send me to sleep early? I was allowed to go to sleep at midnight in Tampico, why do I have to go to bed at 10:15 (on the dot) here? I’m still on holidays, school won’t start for a long while and…
Everyone an army – The Thundering Triumph of Knowing What’s Right
Wake up to : URSS bajo el Arbol – Las aves sin alas

Mexican psychedelic prog peddlers, URSS bajo el árbol, have a brand new video for their track, ‘Las aves sin alas’ (the wingless birds). Released exclusively for Mexican website Indie Rocks, here it is, in all its Vimeo-magic! Enjoy! URSS bajo el árbol Facebook. Twitter. Soundcloud. Myspace. Flickr. Tumblr. Bandcamp.
What the folk?

Recently I was reminded of how strongly the debate still rages – what is folk? I was at the No Direction Home festival at Welbeck Abbey, and Will Hodgkinson had been asked to come and talk about his book The Ballad of Britain. In 2009 he took a trip round Britain to cast his eye on the…
Singles Reviewed – Everyone an army, Silent Front, A Clean Kitchen is a Happy Kitchen, Collider, The Lucid Dream, Torches

Greetings, readers who know that I am the eye in the sky, looking at you, I can read your mind. I am the maker of rules, ok? Welcome to another edition of our “off again, off again, hey it’s on again!” single reviews column. Granted, some of them aren’t singles, but I liked them and…
EP Round up: Great Deeds, Bayone, Dead Sea Navigators, Zahed Sultan

Hullo hullo, it’s your editor-in-training, Orestes P. Xistos and I’ll be doing this week’s EP round-up. In honour of how good The Avengers are doing, I’ll be assigning some cheap ass nerd taxonomy to these bands. Apologies in advance. Shyeah right.
Master and the Mule – The view from nowhere
From The Outside Looking In – a Gold Flake Paint compilation
The Life & Times – Live DVD

We love the Life & Times. Not only did they release one of the best albums (so far) of 2012, the criminally great No one loves you like a do, but they also gave us a very honest and complete interview. They are on tour on the USA, so those of us not there will be missing…