This month’s compilation is from London menswear designer Lee Roach. Italian Vogue tagged him as the London fashion scene’s purist and his A/W ’12 presentation was a standout from the LFW menswear day. Here, Lee gives us an insight into the sounds of his studio by picking his favourite tunes and why he loves them so much. MADONNA ‘LIKE A PRAYER’ “Madonna’s Blonde Ambition tour, 1990; stylistically this was her most incredible period.” DEPECHE MODE 'BEHIND THE WHEEL’ “Featured in the brilliant Depeche Mode 101 documentary, which follows the band and a group of fans who ...

There's no guilt in Shake Tiger Shake. It's all pleasure, of a distinctly 70s flavour London-based five piece Shake Tiger Shake are prone to playing the odd Guilty Pleasures club night, an institution founded on the idea that the music you love should be something you're ashamed of. You can see why they might be lumped in with the 70s soft rock and 80s synth-pop that gets tarred with the guilty pleasure tag, but On the Run doesn't feel arch or knowing. The band describe their sound as "80s synth, Prince, Fleetwood Mac, Studio 54, Bianca ...

A lot of thought and planning, that's what. Allan Glen explains the clout behind Sunderland's progress towards becoming music's new Liverpool or Manchester What is it that transforms an area's local musical landscape into a national credible scene? Wearside acts The Futureheads , Field Music, Hyde & Beast, and Frankie and the Heartstrings may have achieved critical success in recent years but that is merely part of the story of how a city regenerates its music industry beyond geographical borders. Behind the NME features and music press hyperbole many others in Sunderland have been working tirelessly over the ...

At its best, these 80s imitators sounded like Ferry">Bryan Ferry singing “More than This,” except with all the charm and twinkle sucked out, leaving a residue that stunk of congealed Spandau Ballet, When in Rome, Haircut 100—and before you start to think “Wow, I love those bands, and that sounds awesome,” remember that the best singles by those bands were great because they had such strong personality! Drain the personality, and you’ll have Wild Beasts. Henri Matisse wants to paint their noses red… with blood.

It's Record Store day around the planet today... I got mine, I hope you got yours. So to celebrate I'm posting an all vinyl mix from Ukraine Balearic head Serge Jazzmate. Serge contacted me some years ago and send me a rather wonderful mix, which I'm ashamed to say I never posted. He's a persistent fella is our Serge, he send me another mix (this one) and a bunch of emails ensuring that I get on with it and show some love on anoe. The fact is the mix is lovely and Mr Jazzmate is a ...

An obvious choice for art school kid turned popstar, here. But if we're going to do Ferry">Bryan Ferry, we're bloody going to have Kevin Eldon lip-synching to him: [Buy: Big Train ] [Part of The illustrated Friends ] -- Visit No Rock & Roll Fun to comment, complain and kvetch

You might remember that a couple of Crucifixion Bank Holidays back I did a thing which illustrated Hello by the Beloved . Of course you don't remember, but pretend. Okay? Well, a few months back Paul Wells dropped me an email suggesting that there was another song that could benefit from the same treatment. Friends. No, no, no, not that Friends. This one, in fact: Friends, by Adam And The Ants, from Dirk Wears White Sox. Which seems like a nice way to spend a couple of days off. Here's those lyrics in full: I'm a friend of ...

Organisers have scored a major coup for GuilFest 2012 as Art Rock legend *BRYAN FERRY* CBE is confirmed to headline the main stage on the night of Sunday 15th July at GuilFest 2012. Regarded as the embodiment of high glamour, romance and stylishness for nearly four decades, Bryan is literally a...

<="" center="" src="http://itsmusicplay.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/394898_330062943670910_228204477190091_1300296_1861585471_n.jpg" /> TerribleFolly [ I.T.S. Music Playground ] : Facebook | Twitter | Soundcloud It's my firm belief that it's quite rare to find another human being that vibrates at either the same frequency as you or at a relative complimentary frequency. Say you're ringing out at C and you come across someone that's at about a G. When you put those together you form a C power chord. One of the most basic and most widely used forms of chordal music that everyone who listens to punk rock and classic rock can relate to. So during a show not too ...

This week, we present a super special edition of the Modcast this week with a killer double-bill. Late last year New York DJ/Producers Cousin Cole and Phi Unit released their ' So Emotional ' mixtape. Driven by the desire to make an EP of emotional Moombahton: "Emoton" they put together a soft, tissue friendly EP. They put on a party, 'Moombahton Maxxin', in NYC with DJ Reck every other Thursday at 2A and are currently working on volume 2 but in the meantime they've both made mixes for the Modcast this week. Phi Unit Tracklist The Rapture - How Deep Is ...

It may have already been a little old while since Ariel Pink  went and spray canned Before Today all over myriad cerebrums  but he's now back, and by his side stands his compulsively creative, inadvertent 'mentor'; lo-fi New Waver R. Stevie Moore . Together they go by the typically subversive, if immediately apt moniker of Ku Klux Glam  and already prepped is a numbered tape limited to a run of 100 that serves as a '20 track sampler' of what we may only presume to be an already expansive 'catalogue' ( pre-order here via Stroll On Records ). Spewed from said spools ...

Come inside for the solution to the quiz in Classic Rock issue No.170. 1. Butterfly; Chrysalis. 2. Scorpions. 3. Right. 4. In Through The Out Door. 5. All have at some time included two brothers. 6. Man. 7. Viva! Roxy Music (Ferry">Bryan Ferry). 8. Stage, David Bowie. 9. Gibson Les Paul. 10. Ship. 11. Robert Cray. [...]

I Remember Tapes make straight down the line, UK indie with a firm look back at the late eighties , which is fitting for their bandname. And that’s not just us describing them, it turns out they pitch themselves like that too. The band is a trio with a history in punk and metal, and the ability to namedrop like crazy (Ferry">Bryan Ferry? Andy Burrows?) , but don’t hold that against them. We have the single All I Know below, and if you like that a full album, Human Architecture, is now March 13th on Animal Farm.   Story originally ...

LCD Soundsystem drummer Pat Mahoney can disco. He proved that on FabricLive.36 , the 2007 mix CD he assembled alongside his bandmate James Murphy, taking in not only Peech Boys, Chic, and Was (Not Was), but also Junior Bryon and Peter Gordon and Love of Life Orchestra (probably confounding a few DFA fans in the process — but then again, that was the year that LCD brought out their own Confuse the Marketplace EP, so perhaps that was part of the plan). But it's funny: I remember watching Mahoney drumming with Les Savy Fav at grotty warehouse spaces in downtown ...

The upcoming BeatWolf tour is set to launch in London's Electricity Showrooms later this month. Manchester based label BeatWolf have been kicking out some righteous jams for some time now, with the imprint recently deciding to go on tour. Hooking up with Popular, the BeatWolf tour is set to launch later this month. Passing around the country for a few weeks in March and April, the BeatWolf tour will be headlined by the Laurel Collective. A kind of bizarre, twisted yet addictive take on electro-pop the band have been gradually building up their reputation for some time. Montage Populaire ...