‪New Machine Head material

‪Machine Head - Locust‬‏ - YouTube

New Machine Head track "Locust" on YouTube now.  Is it just me, or is that chorus just slightly too........poppy?

www.machinehead1.com

Mercury Music Prize 2011

Ok, the nominations are in for this years Mercury Music Prize as follows:

Metronomy - The English Riviera
Adele - 21
Everything Everything - Man Alive

Ghostpoet - Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam

Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
Tinie Tempah - Disc-Overy
Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys
Gwilym Simcock - Good Days at Schloss Elmau
James Blake - James Blake
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Katy B - On a Mission
King Creosote & John Hopkins - Diamond Mine

For me, I'd be hoping for an Everything Everything, PJ Harvey or James Blake win, although great to see Kenny Anderson (King Creosote) included in there, a massively underrated talent.

Thoughts anyone?

Free download from Fruit Bats

http://soundcloud.com/subpop/fruit-bats-tangie-and-ray-1

Another free download from a Sub Pop artist, this time Fruit Bats.  "Tangie and Ray" taken from their album "Tripper" is as infectious a piece of jangly indie pop as you'll come across.

http://www.subpop.com/artists/fruit_bats

Free Download from Male Bonding

Male Bonding - Bones by subpop on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free

Great driving bit of Indie Rock from Male Bonding available as a free download from Soundcloud.

http://www.subpop.com/artists/male_bonding

The Mercury Music Prize

In an ideal musical world for me the following would be part of the Mercury nominations.  

Talanas - The Waspkeeper 


 www.talanas.org

Tom Williams and the Boat - Too Slow 


 www.tomwilliamsandtheboat.co.uk

The Travelling Band - Screaming is Something 


www.thetravellingband.com

P.J Harvey - Let England Shake 

 www.pjharvey.net

Teeth of the Sea - Your Mercury 


www.myspace.com/thewrongjaws

Radiohead - King Of Limbs 


 radiohead.com












Realistically, there's likely to be two of these in there.

www.mercuryprize.com

The Phoenix Experiment

Unfortunately I couldn't make The Warrington Festival yesterday, if I had however, The Phoenix Experiment would have been top of my list of bands to watch.  Formed by ex members of The 66 and based purely around the music and visuals, than any commercial aspects, they truly are a band of the people.




Check them out live with "Dead and Gone" at the link below and also an incredible filthy piece of psychedelic blues with "Cut You Down" also on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF3qOQpHCWA&feature=share

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWAwWPWgsZ8

Then head over to Phoenix Lodge on Facebook and click on the like button.

http://www.facebook.com/TPELODGE

Tramlines Festival 2011 | Friday 22 July – Sunday 24 July

Tramlines Festival 2011 | Friday 22 July – Sunday 24 July

Free music in Sheffield coming up at the end of next week and there are some great names on the bill including :

Guillemots
Josh T Pearson
Ash
The Duke Spirit
The Futureheads
Los Campesinos
Dananananaykroyd



South Yorkshire is the place to be between the 22nd and the 24th of July.

http://www.tramlines.org.uk/