Great new music from independent labels and artists all around the world
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SnC 375 – The Great Escape 1
A Suffolk’n’Cool special from Brighton on the south coast of England. We’re here for three days of independent music as artists from around the world showcase their talents to audiences comprising about half and half music biz folks and real music fans. Join me for The Great Escape. Minus the makeup – Blek (Mumbai,…
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The Joy of Music
Every now and again I get a track, an album or a video come in that brings a smile to my face. It really doesn’t matter what the genre is, whether its a cover tune or sometimes, whether it’s even in tune! Here’s one that I was sent a few weeks ago that I had…
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SnC 374 – A session with Funke
Funke and the Two Tone Baby came over to The Barn on Friday to play a few tunes and have a chat about his music. What a talented guy (and really good company too). He’s been playing for a while and his distinctive style has developed over the past 5 years into something that seriously…
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SnC 373 – Iced Aussies
Music from almost opposite ends of the earth this week. We have the second of our Icelandic features and from round the other side and almost as far down, a bunch of tracks from Aussie bands that will be showcasing at The Great Escape next week. There’s quite a variety. We also have news of…
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SnC 372 – Iceland calling
Some rather “musical” tunes on this week’s SnC and the start of a short Icelandic season celebrating a flavour of the remarkable music which that tiny island has to offer. Also, we’ve some news about one of the long-established music streaming services – perhaps a precursor to some big shifts to the listening landscape. I…
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SnC 371 – Summertime / SummerStage
Voodoo Tapes is strongly intertwined with the southern Italian net label A Quiet Bump, and it’s great to have him on the show this week. We’ve news of some SummerStage performances in New York and, of course, some of the more interesting of the current crop of truly independent artists. Welcome to your breath of…
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SnC 370 – Age of reason?
A pleasing variety of tracks on this week’s show … again reflecting the best of independent music from around the world in in this week’s show specifically from LA, Nova Scotia, Ontario, San Francisco, New York, Lyon, Edinburgh and Marseille. That Voice – Cosmic Suckerpunch (LA. CA. USA) The current single from their new…
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SnC 369 – Ding Dong
A somewhat eclectic mix this week with fresh tracks from Lancashire, LA, Haifa, NYC, Seattle and Margate. We’ve got news of a really interesting little festival in upstate New York, a correction from Erk and a campaign to get a song to the top of the UK charts this week. Liberty Girl – Heifervescent…
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SnC 368 – and a lot of it
A diverse selection of music this week and a lot of it. Tracks from Australia to Iceland and LA to France. There’s also some surprising news on the effect of piracy on legitimate music sales. Plastic Guns – Emperors (Perth, Western Australia) Emperors’ debut album Stay Frosty has arrived with a bang. Widespread Australian airplay, US iTunes Single…
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How people discover music today
EMI, which was recently sold to Universal, is conducting some serious market research into how, when and why people purchase music. Contrary to a lot of expectations their research with 16,000 people in the USA aged over 25 shows that despite all the digital discovery options and awfully clever digital music startups, traditional radio, TV…
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SnC 367 – Sunny day
The sun came out today, just for a little while but it created a yearning for proper summer. This is probably reflected in this weeks all European, indeed all Jamendo mix. Just for a change I’ve included a couple of tracks from each of three artists, two of whom have brand new albums for us.…
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SnC 366 – Festivities
As the snow again falls on Suffolk in the middle of Canadian Music Week, it’s only right that we should feature a light sprinkling of Canadian artists and take a brief look forward to a couple of massively contrasting warm weather festivals here in the UK this “summer”. When The Smoke Clears (single) –…