Grand Duchy: Love, marriage and music making
Discovering the person you want to spend the rest of your life with is pretty monumental. Having the chutzpah to procreate and raise other little people together is arguably bigger than that. So what do two people do for an encore after love, marriage and the pitter-patter of little feet are squared away? They start...
Bombay Bicycle Club: Enjoying the ride
Friends Jack Steadman (lead vocals, guitar), Jamie MacColl (guitar), Ed Nash (bass) and Suren de Saram (drums) are Bombay Bicycle Club: a (rather) young British act who’ve concocted no grand schemes to obtain rock and roll stardom yet seem to be edging ever closer all the same. Over the course of about six years and...
Veronica Falls: On the rise in 2012
Veronica Falls (est. 2009) are an upbeat indie pop hybrid out of London and Glasgow. Mixing equal parts shoegaze, C-86, and euphonious 60′s-era harmonies, Roxanne Clifford (vocals, guitar), James Hoare (guitar, vocals), Marion Herbain (bass) and Patrick Doyle (drums, vocals) released their eponymous debut in September 2011 on Slumberland Records and have been on the...
PS I Love You: Inescapable…in a good way
Kingston duo Paul Saulnier (vocals, guitar) and Benjamin Nelson (drums) are PS I Love You, and their music – like their respective personalities – is the harmonious union of brute emotion with a demure pop sensibility. Their debut LP Meet Me at the Muster Station – released this past spring – has left critics starry-eyed,...
The Reason: Hitting their stride on the long road to success
Adam White, vocalist and guitarist for The Reason, describes his band as “honest and hardworking” – but that doesn’t mean success has come easy. Lineup changes, legal red tape and management woes have littered the way since they formed in 2003. The latest album Fools – produced by Steven Haigler (Pixies, Brand New, Quicksand) –...
