Buzzin Pop Music

RedTrack hail from Southend, Essex & are reminiscent in parts to eighties punk pop bands such as The Vapours & The Jags, and more recently The Ordinary Boys.  There’s also an element of the controlled laddish aggression of The Jam – all good, nothing bad.
Good time less punk, more pop grinding guitar, uptempo beats with [...]

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Eugene McGuinness – The Fonz – new single and tour dates

Eugene McGuinness’s new single Fonz, taken from his recently released eponymous second full-length, is coming out next Monday (February 23rd).
It is a lively piece of pop with an audible post-punk edge. It is playful and cheeky in his usual style, but slightly more frenetic than [...]

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Nell Bryden at the O2 Academy, Oxford 8/02/08 – review
Last October Nell Bryden once walked out to thousands of troops in Iraq where she recorded her forthcoming album Live in Iraq. Last night, she walked out to five people, excluding the bar staff, sound men and security (I’m not sure what sort of a riot [...]

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Max Tundra aka Ben Jacobs releases Which Song as a digital download single taken from his third studio album, Parallax Error Beheads You.
Sometimes the music of Max Tundra is full of warped, genre-hopping experimentation.  But with Which Song you will find Tundra at his most accessible and pop-tastic.
Think 1980’s Prince and Scritti Politti’s Green Gartside [...]

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Tonight: Franz Ferdinand is the third album from the current sound of Young Scotland, courtesy of Franz Ferdinand.
12 new tracks offering their now familiar quirky, intellectual lyrics and sing-a-long pop music, including the current single Ulysses.
Tonight: Franz Ferdinand was produced by Dan Carey and the band, the album was recorded at the band’s own HQ [...]

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