Tom Prior - Voicemail

1.    Who’s the chappie?

Tom Prior is an indie pop rock musician from North London making tunes since 2005. He has two short players to his name. Voicemail (Dec'15) rolls off the second EP Paint The Ceiling (Dec'15).


2. What’s spinning?

Voicemail has a slacker indie rock atmosphere. A meandering tune that crackles to life with sporadic guitar riffs.


3. Who does Tom Prior sound like?

Indie Shuffle are feeling The Arctic Monkeys and BORNS.


4. What have the venerable scribes of the fourth estate said about Voicemail?

“My favorite track” – Indie Shuffle.

“Blends rock influences with electronic synths” – The Playground.

“Seems to get under your skin” – Clash Music.

5. Which bands have had a hand in Tom Prior’s sound?

Mr Prior’s main influences are The Kinks, The Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay, Kanye West and The Verve.

6. Why should I give Voicemail a fair crack of the whip?

Voicemail is catchy in a low-key kind of way.

7. Does Tom Prior have any more good tunes?

Take It All has a fat beat if that's what you're into.

8. Any more words? 

Nope.



Team Me were a Norwegian indie pop band from 2010 - 2015. They released two sizzling hot albums. Did We Lose Something Here ripped off the second album Blind As Night (2014) and was a stand out album track that Nordic Music Review called "a stomping anthem."

"I love to death and wait for mine"

Broken Hands - Four

1.    Who are these shit kickers?

Broken Hands are an indie rock band from Canterbury, England. Four (Feb’16) screams off Broken Hand’s debut album Turbulence (Sept’15) and is one of a handful of singles thrown out into the ether.

2. What kind of treat do we have on our hands?

Four has a nasty street fighting riff three balls big. Four is the sound of it kicking off big style and is done and dusted before you had a chance to take names. Riotious rock'n'roll with no apologies.

3. Who do Broken Hands sound like?

Four has the intensity of Kassassin Street's primal banger Centre Street Atom.  Broken Hands have been compared to Queens Of The Stone Age, Primal Scream and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. NME were feeling Kasabian early doors and Royal Blood.
 

4. What have the cut and paste merchants said about Four?

“Riff heavy, radio ready club banger” – Popped Music.

“Dirty riffs and high-octane urgency” – Hare and Hounds.

“Power charged riffing” – Bitter Sweet Symphonies.

 

 

 

5. Who puts the jet fuel in Broken Hand’s flight?

Broken Hands have big-upped Queens Of The Stone Age, Catfish and The Bottlemen, My Morning Jacket, Secret Machines and Band Of Skulls.

6. Why should I give Four a fair fucking crack of the whip?

Four has the vicious adrenaline charge of a curb stomping and is indicative of fresh rock'n'roll with no pretences.
 

7. Do Broken Hands have any more of these vital rockers?

They so do. What You've Taken has a casual, sublime sauntering strut and Who Sent You has a massive atmospheric rocking vibe.
 

8. Any more words?
 

Turbulence was produced by Tom Dalgety who has done nine to five for Royal Blood, Band Of Skull, The Maccabees and Killing Joke.

Broken Hands are some down to earth motherfuckers. In an interview they offered up the fact that they share bath water “pretty regular.”

 

“My wheels won’t break but can barely take the strain”

 

 

The double dip is Bradford’s finest The Cult. The goth rockers started in 1983 and are still going strong. Hidden City (Feb’16) is the band’s tenth album and the first to be compared favorably to the sublime stadium rock of Electric and Sonic Temple. The third single from the album, Hinterland (Jan’16), brings the big Billy Duffy riffs out to play and was produced by Bob Rock who has put nose to grind for Metallica, Motley Crue and Bon Jovi. Exclaim called Hinterland “rip-snorting” and it is a fine return to form from these legends of rock’n’roll.

“The dream of life is fading”