Great new music from independent labels and artists all around the world
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“Sex and drugs and rock n roll” better than “Botox, tits and auto-tune”
Dave Stewart (Eurythmics, etc.) was watching the American Music Awards TV show on Sunday. OK, so how do I know? Well a bit of a give-away is that he was tweeting to his @DaveStewart Twitter account at the time. It has been suggested that he was jet-lagged and/or drunk, but regardless, I think he spoke…
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SnC 247 – 24 November 2010
Some cracking music from Italy, California, Finland, the UK, Brooklyn and Canada. Along with news from Codger and a delicious rant from Dave Stewart. The hops which grew up the barn again this year didn’t really throve but they look pretty good now with the light behind them. A very happy Thanksgiving to all my…
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SnC 246 – 17 November 2010
Quite a bit of news, comment and an interview with Jordan Reyne this week as well as fine music from Iran, New York, Chicago, Hamburg Essex squished into a sandwich between two slices of Canada. We’ve had a couple of impressive sunsets this week. Still, cold air seems to do it. The shownotes are getting…
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SnC 245 – 10 November 2010
Some wonderful music from around the world, news of some gigs that you might just want to get to and the announcement of Adnams Artist of the Month for October I was in Southwold yesterday. The sea was heaping up on the beach and stained brown from all the sand and silt the high winds…
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SnC 244 – 3rd November 2010
Just a few New York tracks this week, now that I’m back from CMJ. It is certailly easier to produce the show on the dual screens rather than on the laptop which died again today. This time I think it is permanent. Shame I spent $100 last week on a new battery for it 🙁…
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AOTM October 2010 – Jordan Reyne
Jordan is a New Zealander living in Hamburg. Her unusual approach to music pairs the rhythms of steam-based technology and machinery with folk instruments and vocal styles, crossing technology with history to tell the dark stories of characters real and imagined. Jordan’s recent album, How the Dead Live was commissioned by the New Zealand Arts…
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SnC 243 – Wednesday 27 October 2010
A Suffolk ‘n’ Cool special this week from New York where the music world and his performing dog is recovering from a frantic CMJ2010 and where I’m still having a ball and working my socks off. The sound quality isn’t up to the usual studio standard and is made worse by the fact that my…
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SnC 242 – Wednesday 20th October 2010
All that’s wonderful about independent music on SnC this week. Tracks from all around the world, news of on-line gigs, a chat with John New of New Average, some great music for you from net-labels and at least one commercial track for you to download free and legal. Oh and it’s CMJ week! So have…
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SnC 241 – Wednesday 13th October 2010
Varied styles of music on SnC 241 (nothing new there then!) with every track packed full of interest for you. They’re from London, Brooklyn, France, Roma, Washington DC, Leeds, Napoli and Iceland. There’s a feature and interview with Kjartan Holm of Icelandic band For a Minor Reflection in this week’s show, recorded at their show…
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SnC 240 – Wed 06 October 2010
A remarkable diversity of music on SnC this week from New York, Buenos Aires, Frankfurt and Toronto but that’s just one of the tracks! We’ll also hear about which artist has been selected Artist of the Month for September by Sarah Groves at Adnams who I met up with earlier today. Head brewer Fergus was…
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AOTM September 2010 – Shayna Zaid and The Catch
Blending elements of folk, indie pop, gypsy jazz, bluegrass and cabaret, New York based Shayna Zaid & The Catch’s sound occupies a place in music that bridges a new gap between the milieu of genres. They have drawn comparisons to Nickel Creek, Feist, Macy Gray, Gogol Bordello and A Fine Frenzy. Zaid’s dynamic stage presence,…
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SnC 239 – Wed 29 September 2010
Suffolk ‘n’ Cool 239 features music from Germany, Mississippi, California, France, Brooklyn and Boston. We’ve news of the CMJ bun-fight in New York, a blogging challenge for musicians wanting to get to grips with promoting their music for themselves at low cost and a couple of tracks for you to download for yourself, quite legally.…