Recent Downloads

for September you lucky lucky people can download the first single from the VATICAN CELLARS' debut album - THE SAME CROOKED WORM (out in November on wiaiwya)

BITTER PLANS will appeal to fans of TIM HARDIN, the LILAC TIME and NICK DRAKE; a georgeous lament to loss and its accompanying guilt. It's an English gent's soul music, an angry acoustic guitar politely strummed, and a cello part to break you heart... Utterly Beautiful...

it's coupled with a cover of VAN HALEN's RUNNIN' WITH THE DEVIL... it's cockrockchamberpop... oh, yes...

advance copies of the album are available for £11 (including UK postage), just send it to the paypal address (wiaiwya@hotmail.com)

http://www.myspace.com/thevaticancellars

your FREE download single for August is the magnificent NARISSA I WON'T from HEXICON

it's as if, on the way to the cribs, johnny marr had bypassed modest mouse, and instead had made a beeline for the boo radleys, who in turn had decided that the postal service album should serve as a template for their new direction... they'd then locked themselves into a garage listening to blueboy, super furry animals and the zombies, and emerged three months later with "Narissa I Won't", a solid gold indiepop classic-in-waiting...

HEXICON's debut long player THE BLOSSOM SIGHS is also available: http://haircutrecords.co.uk/site/shop/hexicon-the-blossom-sighs-cd-album/

http://www.myspace.com/hexicon

for July we have two brand new tunes from Liverpool's TOWN BIKE... equal parts Runaways, Ramones and Ronettes (the REAL three R's that should be taught in school), TOWN BIKE are FUN! POWER! PUNK! POP! POP! POP!...

the sweet girl group intro to BASTARD HEART (yes, with THAT drum beat) paves the way for 1 piss, 2 shits, 6 bastards and 8 fucks, in less than two minutes... think SHAMPOO's "Bouffant Headbutt" or LOVE BITES' "You Broke My Heart"... think about them a LOT... i know i do...

and then CRAZY NIGHTS too?... really... we're spoiling you...

TOWN BIKE's album GO! FIGHT! WIN! is still available from the bands myspace... go on... GET IT

http://www.myspace.com/townbike

Freschard grew up in a farm in French Burgundy. She started organizing shows in the barn when she was about 12 years old. Aged 18 she moved to the big city, Paris, where she baked pies and cakes in a cafe. There, a local musician and regular customer called Andre Herman Dune wrote a few songs for her to sing. She called her first E.P. “Neon Orange”. Homeless in Paris, she saved up just enough money to get herself a ticket to New York. There she found an old electric guitar and started writing her own material.

She now lives in Berlin where she records her music and sometimes produces other people's music, including David Tattersall's "Happy For A While"

These two songs appear on "Click Click" (Conky Records) which also features a drummer (Leo Bear Creek), and electric guitars by Stanley Brinks.

It's available on www.byrecords.com

From April's ash clouds emerges May's free download single, by Reyjakavik's TWO STEP HORROR.

Þórður Grímsson & Anna Margrét Björnsson touch on Suicide, add a shot of Spaceman 3 and a splash of Sparklehorse on "KING BEE", a kind of mogadon fuelled skiffle ache, straight outta twin peaks, like an 8 minute hypnotic bullet... a bullet of quietly bewitching, creepy lovelines... Or lovely creepiness


there's also a mesmerising video:



http://www.myspace.com/thetwostephorror