http://thedailygrowl.co.uk New Music. Old Music. Live Music. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:26:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been a good eight months since there's been any mention of The Young Republic on here, which must be some sort of record. So it's time for an update. They've been busy - trying to crack their home country, recording not one, but two albums, changing line-ups (bye Nate ... http://thedailygrowl.co.uk/2010/09/01/a-quick-word-with-the-young-republic/ Another artist who's recently been overdue space on The Daily Growl is Dan Michaelson, former Absentee frontman and all-round East London good guy. It hardly seems any time since the release of his debut album Saltwater with his band The Coastguards, but that was 18 months ago and he's about ... http://thedailygrowl.co.uk/2010/08/26/a-quick-word-with-dan-michaelson/ I don't want to go on about my blogging absence of late and how busy I am elsewhere, but it's precisely that which has prevented this feature from appearing much earlier. Ideally, it should have appeared at the start of the year, when long-time Daily Growl faves Left With Pictures ... http://thedailygrowl.co.uk/2010/08/25/a-quick-word-with-left-with-pictures/ You know there's something wrong when there has been one post on this blog since 22 July. I know there's something wrong when I post this month's MAP 9 days after it was supposed to go up. All of this is not good, but life is very busy and something ... http://thedailygrowl.co.uk/2010/08/24/map-august-2/ Even in the age of mass digital media, the best music recommendations still come directly from friends’ tip-offs. And sometimes it’s just as well. If I’d never been personally told about the album Cowabungler by Round Ron Virgin, I’d probably have overlooked it, or been put off by the dreadful ... http://thedailygrowl.co.uk/2010/08/06/interview-round-ron-virgin/ Cloud Control from Black Cab Sessions on Vimeo. Have you been on the Black Cab Sessions website lately? I drop by regularly and there's always something brilliant going on. The latest session comes from Cloud Control - an Australian band I'd never heard of before - who bring handclaps and some ... http://thedailygrowl.co.uk/2010/07/22/cloud-control/ Last year, Bear Driver did well for a band with only one single under their belts, playing both Reading and End of the Road festivals. I missed them at the latter of course, and as has been the case every year of the festival now, bands I missed have a ... http://thedailygrowl.co.uk/2010/07/22/seven-songs-bear-driver/ The next installment in the ongoing adventures of Gruff Rhys. The last two years have seen him go from sports car-inspired electropop to huge psychedelic rock jams in his day job with Super Furry Animals and now back to teaming up with Brazillian eccentric Tony Da Gatorra playing huge psychedelic ... http://thedailygrowl.co.uk/2010/07/22/gruff-rhys-vs-tony-da-gatorra/ Not Squares - Release the Bees from Bright Stem on Vimeo. Here, Belfast's premier synth destroyers return, having ditched their guitars, clutching a well-thumbed copy of Let's Make it RAVE, and a cheap graphics package, and somehow contrive to make it awesome. mp3: Not Squares - Bi Ki Na (Me Me Wee ... http://thedailygrowl.co.uk/2010/07/22/swarm-nights/ This review first appeared on Bearded Magazine. Glasgow has long been celebrated for its independent music – plenty hot new bands, artists and scenes have come out of there in the past few decades, but you can be sure that no media flurry about music in that city will ever ... http://thedailygrowl.co.uk/2010/07/16/richard-youngs-beyond-the-valley-of-ultrahits/