Monday?s New Music: The Acorn

Via Lonesome Music comes a band touted fervently in several music blogs as "Canada's next big thing" and it doesn't take long to see (or hear) why.

Soothing acoustic guitar driven indie-folk is the order of the day here, with lush instrumentation and

The Friday Download Review

As usual Friday (which has secretly turned into Saturday behind my back) is the time when I gather my favourite music downloads from the previous week. In each case the source blog is identified in the title and from there you too should be able to read about and …

Monday's New Music: Red Letter Suits

Angular guitars, breezy melodies and dancing bass lines are the order of the day with this bright and breezy band from the North-East. It's no-nonsense, girl fronted pop-punk, combining the playfulness

A Solar Powered World?

A recent study has determined that 6 vast solar power generators, one located on each of the continents (plus the Middle-East), could provide enough power to meet the current primary energy demand. These solar power plants are shown on the following map of the world …

You, Me and the Others

Miranda July: professional eccentric. Writer, director and star of 2005's Cannes Film Festival

The Friday Download Review

Again I'm a day late with everything this week - blame it on the Easter period I guess - but I think it is worth the wait with a couple of interesting selecctions this week that have definitely caught my ear. As usual click the link to the blog title for the original …

MNM: Strike The Colours

Jenny Reeve has managed to build quite the CV during her travails in the Scottish indie music scene. A vocal performance on a Reindeer Section album track (Fire Bell) led to a position as touring violinist with Arab Strap (in the company of three quarters of Sons & …

Observing Report

Last night I took the 'scope out just after midnight to take in some views of the late spring skies. With Leo following Gemini into the west and the Summer Triangle rising in the east it is a transitionary period for the night sky.

After visiting some favourite spring …

Review: Fields' Debut Album

Fields definitely are not a band lacking in ambition. Formed in a shed somewhere in London a mere 18 months ago, they recently released their assured debut album, Everything Last Winter. Their live shows in early 2006, and a single, Song for the Fields, sparked a …