London – Welcome to a new feature in which we recap some of the week’s music highlights. The week kicked off with the 59th annual Grammy Awards. Adele and Beyonce may have hogged the headlines but it was good to see some Best New Bands alumni get among the mainstream plaudits. It was second time
What’s up with British chanteuses and their affection and gifted talent for soulful love songs, anyways? Adele owes her global success to that broken love she once had while Amy Winehouse’s “Love is a Losing Game” is an ultimate love song curse. Then there’s instrumentalist crooner like Corinne Bailey Rae whose neo-soul love numbers have
Andy R. (né Andy Rauworth) and Craig Nice (né Craig Fleischman) say they have been playing music together since they were 15. In 2010, nearly a decade later, the duo released a 7” entitled Out/Don’t… under the moniker Gauntlet Hair and created a swarm of buzz around their stabbing, reverbed avant-pop. And then those bastards