The Cloud is the long awaited debut single by Leeds based James Owen Fender after a lengthy and somewhat difficult and troubled gestation period since James first appeared back in 2008. Back in 2007 James decided to go solo after spending his teens fronting a number of different bands, he quickly recorded a demo that he landed up emailing to Atlantic Records, who a mere five minutes later contacted

Twenty One is the first single to be lifted from Paul Menel's (former lead singer of IQ) forthcoming Gavin Monaghan (Editors, Ocean Colour Scene, Scott Matthews, etc) produced album, which is due to be unleashed later on this year. The track is a big sounding adult friendly retro pop rocker (kind of like Tears For Fears) complete with horns, melodic riffs, tinkering keyboards and tasteful vocal harmonies,

Once in awhile you receive an album that leaves you breathless, a release that has you scrambling around the super information highway for more information, a CD that leaves you craving for more, Hunter, Hunter is one such album.Apparently Hunter, Hunter is Canadian singer-songwriter Amelia Curran's fifth release (I'll be trying to track down a copy of each of her previous albums) to date and though

Last week Rhythm & Booze hosted a night of live music at Drummonds as part of the Worcester Music Festival and being the crazy man that I am, I decided it would be a little more interesting to book bands that on the whole don't perform that often locally and out town acts that have either never played or rarely play Worcester. On the whole it was a long but triumphant gig with all the bands and

The Pictures are synth-pop duo, Judith Algar and Nick Nicholas, they maybe something of a new name to you however you may have caught a track or two on the soundtracks to cult TV series such as As If or Cold Feet. Not only have the band appealed to TV producers they've also managed to secure a few celebrity fans such as George Michael (who featured their early recordings on his Agean record label)

Lonely the Brave a four-piece group hailing from Cambridge, that are beginning to create quite a buzz, already they've recorded a four-track live session for Dan P Carter of Radio One fame (quite unheard of for a band so early in their career) as well as being invited to play at the renowned I The City event later this year.To date the band have released a demo back in 2009, that quickly sold out along

Calamatuer is the work of Scottish singer-songwriter Andrew Howie, a highlands based maverick who combines a love of folk, rock and electronica to create a compelling sound has in the past found favour with the likes of the late John Peel, The Late Junction on Radio 3 and the Scottish Evening Session on Radio one among others.Each Dirty Letter is Andrew's fourth full length album and the first to have

What has the huge backlog of CDs got in store for me today? Well Mimi Soya are a Brighton based pop-punk four-piece, who have been busy wowing the audiences of Cobra Starship, Go: Audio, Newton Faulkner and Get Cape Wear Cape Fly among others, whilst finding favour with the likes of Big Cheese Magazine (teen punk bible).So what have Mimi Soya got that will appeal over the ever growing scene? well firstly

Francis Neve, I'm sure, will be something of a new name to pretty much one and all, however this Essex born singer-songwriter could well be on the tip of your tongues in the not too distant future.Francis was born and raised in Hornchurch, Essex and started writing songs at the tender age of 12, he formed his first band, Next Of Six at 16 and then had a brief stint in indie outfit The Last (who also

Cause And Effect is the fifth album by Norwegian singer-songwriter Maria Mena, following on from recent successful single, All This Time, which was playlisted by both Radio 2 and Smooth FM. Maria Mena is only 23 but has already won a Grammy for best female artist, as well as a number of other awards and nominations across Europe, her albums have constantly racked up sales across the world and this