Great new music from independent labels and artists all around the world

Sorry to interrupt your Saturday, or whatever day it is that you’re reading/listening, but I just had a very excited call from Jeremy Gugenheim (The G Spot) who is at the Latitude Festival this weekend and who has just seem School of Seven Bells perform an astounding set and I thought you might like to…

Quite a blues theme this week with Janiva Magness featuring along with another of Jan Mittendorp’s remarkable blues remixes. There is an interesting version of one of Bob Marley’s big tracks from the guy who wrote it, King Sporty and more …  It’s been a busy week including a trip over to the Adnams brewery…

Some great food at the Fiesta in the Park: jerk chicken, curry goat and of course rice’n’peas. A great vibe considering it was the first such Fiesta as a fundraiser for the Cowley Road Carnival. It really is another side to Oxford and could be a million miles from the “dreaming spires” that were visible…

Music from St Louis/Amsterdam, from Hamerfest – the most northern town on earth, from Paris, Strasbourg and Montpellier in the south of France as well as from New York, USA and Brighton, here in the UK. Listening back to these week’s selection it does feel like hot weather music, which seems appropriate really as it…

The Brighton Sandwich seems to be this week’s special offering: two very different tracks from Brighton-based artists wrapped around a delicious filling of nourishing music from Oregon, Ploughkeepsie, NY (I live that name), Lancashire, The Bahamas, Liverpool and something spicy from Italy. Last evening was spent with my chum Debbie (on her birthday eve); a…

Music this week from Georgia (the state this time), Alberta, California, Australia, Montreal, Ontario and New York. Summer seems to have arrived this afternoon. After what seems like weeks of dark cold grey skies, the sun came out, so did the poppies on the field edges. Marvelous – Lexi Street (Atlanta, GA, USA) I found…

Fine music from Idaho, California, France, London, Melbourne and Reykjavik and even from just up the road in Suffolk. The big lump out to the north east of London (East Anglia) is renowned for its relatively flat landscape and “big” skies. Today, clouds were bubbling up into quite intense and beautiful shapes as music was…

Some fine music from around the planet as usual but with a bit of a focus on some great bands that I’ve seen live in Liverpool in the past couple of days. It was just great to be back in Liverpool after quite a while. It seems to be regaining its pride after a lean…

Fine music from London and Birmingham here in the UK, as well as Sweden, Israel, Chicago and Vancouver. Perhaps a bit of a summery feel because we just had our summer, last weekend. It’s back to normal now.   The hop that is growing up the barn steps put on 8 inches in the past…

A selection of very fresh music again this week with tracks for you from Oregon, London, New York, Nashville, Nottinghamshire, Gambia and Sweden. The sun has arrived, so the blinds come down in the darn barn! Senorita – The Quick and Easy Boys (Portland, Oregon, USA) Via Twitter from Per Capita from their album Red…

Music this week from Philly, Kabul, Montreal, Grenoble, London, Nashville, Cologne and somewhere secret in Germany! We had the coldest May night in 15 years last night and the beginnings of a government here in the UK. We really are in uncharted waters and it will be interesting (to say the least) to see how…