• Wake up to … The Cold and Lovely

    Cool new ditty by The Cold and Lovely, a project by Nicole Fiorentino and Meghan Toohey. Slow groove, atmospheric and very dreamy. Can we have some more, please? Links Myspace.  Website. Twitter. Facebook.

  • Eclecticism and Exposure

    Xray Horse XII @ The Harley, 09.04.11 Featuring: Blood Bare, The Hot Soles, Sunderbans, Legend of the 7 Black Tentacles

  • Reasons to buy the new Cats:For:Peru EP

    Ahoy mates!

  • Welcome to thecontrollersphere

    of Montreal – thecontrollersphere Stream – ‘L’age D’or’ It’s hard to describe of Montreal to the newly initiated. You play them a song, any song and the looks you get say it all. What does it all mean? The cover? The art? The title? Their whole discography? No idea whatsoever. It is a true “take…

  • Invite : Riptide @ O2 Academy

    The lads from Riptide will be headlining a show at the O2 Academy in Sheffield this Saturday 30th of April. With their heavy blues based rock and some surprise guests, it’s a good time for their fans who have been waiting for the Derby based band to visit ol’ Steely. Only a fiver at the…

  • Paving Stones – Papercutz

    Papercutz The brainchild of Portugal-representing Bruno Miguel, Papercutz is now a group proper, delighting fans of electronica, ambient and sweet remixes with ethereal voices and a healthy mixture of live instruments and samples. Between releasing their own stuff, they do dabble in doing some remixes and today, they have kindly donated this remix of Sun…

  • Soundtrack of our lives

    Hauschka – Salon des Amateurs Stream – ‘Sunrise’ There are times where the human capacity for amazement goes to lethargy and would be rarely woken up, only by lights coming from dreams; these lights would come up in different shapes through any of our five senses. Luckily for me, this glow invaded my ears like…

  • Interview – Kerry Brown

    Kerry Brown. If you know your 90s rock history well, the name will ring a bell. If not, here’s a first clue: he was in a band called Catherine (maybe a Spotify or Video might jolt your memory?).

  • Of Bourbon, betrayals and double barrel gunslingers

    Pete David & The Payroll Union Stream – ‘There’s a light’

  • In Memoriam – Elisabeth Sladen

    It’s hard to take that someone who was part of your childhood is gone.