The Magic Gang - All This Way

1.    On the velvet? Really?

Yeah sorry. That's The Magic Gang an indie pop rock band from Brighton, England. They have been making sweet melodies since 2013 and have one short player to their name. All This Way (Aug'16) is from an up-coming second E.P.

2. What have they got to listen to?

All This Way is a light, bubbly, love sick pop number with a chorus that sticks to you like flies to an ax wound. 

3. Who do The Magic Gang sound like?

The Beatles. Weezer. Buddy Holly. Rabbit!

4. What have those arbiters of taste in the press said about All This Way?

“Simply a quality indie rock song” – Euphoriazine. 

“Yet another slice of gold” – DIY.  

“A definite summer anthem” – Pond Music. 

5. Which bands have helped craft The Magic Gang's magic?  

A few of the bands influences are The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, T-Rex, Queen, Oasis and Joy Division.


6. Why should I press play on All This Way?

The tune is a long slow sip of sunshine with a sticky ass chorus and you've-been-there lyrics. 


7. Do The Magic Gang have any other decent tunes?

Why yes sir. Head straight for Jasmine. Not done? No Fun is a more Pixies/Weezer-esque track. Top shelf squire. 


8. Any more words son? 

The Magic Gang are supporting Spring King in concert this October and Swim Deep are big fans of the band.

“All I really want to know,

Is how I got all this way on my own?”

She Wants Revenge are an alternative rock band from San Fernando Valley, California. They started playing together in 2005 and have recorded three albums, toured with Placebo and Depeche Mode, and sold over 300 000 albums. She Wants Revenge are influenced by bands like Depeche Mode, Sonic Youth, David Bowie, The Cure and Prince.  Must Be The One is the lead single from the band's third album Valleyheart (2011) and a song that has an epic U2 or Kodaline type feel and is sound as a pound.

“I’d break all my promises if you’d just say we’re not done,

‘Cause you must be the one”

Canvas - Gold

1.   Who are Canva?

Canvas are an indie rock band from Toronto who have been making music since 2013. They describe their music as Electro-Springsteen meets Grouplove. Gold comes strutting off their debut album sticktoitiveness (Dec'16). 

2. What kind of song is Gold?

It kicks open the door with a massive strutting riff. All classic rock stomp, black leather and smelling of last night's whiskey. It keeps sauntering along in the same fashion though the chorus soars up lightly like an autumn leaf on a strong breeze. The song structure is intricate, all middle eights and bridges and wafting off into places four to the floor rock'n'roll rarely strays. Tight lead in the coda too.

3. Who do Canvas sound like?

Gold's shit kicking verses throws up thoughts of Ray LaMontagne's Pt 1. Hey, No Pressure,  Spoon's Rent I Pay, Twin Atlantic's Heart and Soul even Weezer's El Scorcho. Going back in the day, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks or even Cheap Trick.

4. So what is the good word from our friends in the press?

Sonic Bids are the lone piper here on the topic of Gold, “A tune that combines both a classic Canadiana rock vibe, and new-wave pop,” they knocked off. “A rocking tune whose simple opening riff is undeniably powerful and catchy as it carries through to the climactic solos at the end,” they continued playing with a straight bat.

The album sticktoitiveness has “a very modern sound, but that being said, also have certain moments that remind me of classic rock,” say Canadian Beats. “Blends futuristic synths - sometimes dark, sometimes playful - danceable grooves, hooky melodies, shimmering guitars and anthemic choruses into a post-synth-rock collage,” detailed Flat Car Records. Plug In Records plumped for “a rock record you should hear” after some solid deliberation.

5. So who are Canvas influenced by?

Canvas are fet their influences from Grouplove, Depeche Mode, The Strokes, The Killers, My Morning Jacket, The Morning Benders, Land Of Talk and The Dears. 

 6. Why should I give Gold a listen? 

The crushing riff will chew your mind up and spit you back out like worthless shit juice. But seriously singer, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and producer, Chris Graham has said the song is a warning both to society and self about living to excess. When are we going to wake up to the mess we are headed for folks? Simple answer, never. We'll suck heartily from Earth's tit until it's a hollow husk and our children choke to death on their tears lamenting their brief and excruciatingly painful existence. Or not. Up to you. 

7. Do Canvas have any more of this rampant rock? 

Not at the moment.. 

8. Anything else I should know? 

Chris Graham let slip on how easy writing Gold was saying,“Sometimes you just pick up the guitar and the first thing you play is what you were looking for. That was the case with that tune.”  Chris Graham was formerly the lead singer and guitarist for indie rock band FIRExFIRE. He has written music for film and TV and produced and recorded the album Happy Times by Splash’N Boots.

“We treasure the treasure we found,
It’ll bury us under the ground.”

  

The daily double dip is pure sweet joy and happiness, the indie pop band Rabbit! Described as “sipping sunshine” and “a sonic celebration of love and life” the band hail from Mount Dora, Florida and have handed down a handful of stupidly brilliant albums for the people since 2007. Despite avoiding mainstream success; you can't google this band, find their music and they have next to no net presence; they put coin in pocket from some big advertising deals. No one has ever heard this band and not liked them. That comes with a money back guarantee. Be a better person. Listen to Rabbit! Magic (2011).

"Who's got he maps to the stars? 

Who can drive backwards in the car?

You say you're clever, well baby you are."