The three members of Liverpool-based three-piece Stealing Sheep are certainly an eclectic bunch of bolshy girls. With each one of the northern trio bringing far-reaching influences that come together in a melting pot of ovine monikered goodness, what’s not to like? We dipped in to their wondrous world of kaleidoscopic kleptomania to rustle up some much needed answers. “We formed in summer last year,” says Becky Hawley. “I was working in a shop below the café where Lucy (drums) and Emily (guitar) worked, and was always listening to something on my headphones when ordering my lunch. We started chatting ...

Como un suspiro pasó Emmy The Great por Barcelona. Era domingo, día después del concierto de Arctic Monkeys, salió al escenario de La [2] y en apenas 45 minutos ya volvía a bajar de él. Fue una pena, y lo decimos abiertamente, que por cosas de la vida Emmy The Great tuvieran que ejercer de [...]

It’s called Orion, and it will be held at Bader Field in Atlantic City, New Jersey, a place Lars Ulrich referred to as having “a lot of fuck-off space.” During the livestream, James Hetfield said the fest is in tribute to Cliff Burton, Metallica’s former bassist who passed away in 1986—“Orion” refers to the song off Master of Puppets which features a massive solo from Burton. Tickets will be $150 and $175. They’ve announced 16 of the 22 bands that will be playing (via the festival’s website ): Arctic Monkeys Avenged Sevenfold Modest Mouse The Gaslight ...

Our pompous old playlist-making owl Brian is back. With some bombastic pose, dubious claims about his whereabouts in the past year and a playlist of 2011's gems. How we've missed the silly thing. ( Read more... ) Categories: Playlists Tags: Fire">Arcade Fire , Bombay Bicycle Club , Bon Iver , brett anderson , Death Cab for Cutie , Emmy The Great , Foxes">Fleet Foxes , Gruff Rhys , Iron & Wine , Laura Marling , Metronomy , Pete and the Pirates , PJ Harvey , Slow Club , Summer Camp , The Leisure Society

bic runga : this girl's prepared for war (belle, 2011) emmy the great : paper forest (in the afterglow of rapture) (virtue, 2011) kiki hitomi : gypsy woman (2012) lux : the window (we are not the same, 2012) miila and the geeks : new age (new age, 2011)

Final headline tour of album cycle also announced.

*Noah And The Whale* have today announced support acts for their UK Spring tour. The band, whose Last Night On Earth became one of the biggest selling albums of the past year**, have invited Emmy The Great, Lucy Rose and Bahamas to join them at dates on this major tour, with dates including a ...

Fresh from a Christmas that we like to think looked exactly like this, Emmy the Great has announced a string of live appearances. Emmy will play 4 dates in mainland Europe this month, and a one-off London show in March. The last UK headline show for her excellent album Virtue. Then at the end [...] ( Read more... ) Categories: News Tags: Emmy The Great

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After a sleepless night i’m actually asking myself where my mind exactly is. Sunday Girl – Where Is My Mind (The Pixies cover) We already had another beautiful cover version by Emmy The Great on our blog last year.

For the seventh year - check the tag - we present the hip list poll of polls, a bringing together of the UK music blogging and DIY magazining elite (or at least those that did lists) to determine what the online hivemind made as the best anyone recorded in 2011. Our steering group this time around largely comprises the following: 17 Seconds, Alphabet Bands, And Everyone's A DJ, The Auditorium, Aye Tunes, Both Bars On, Bowlegs, Breaking More Waves, The Daily Growl, Dots & Dashes, Drunken Werewolf, Eaten By Monsters, Echoes And Dust, Flying With Anna, Folly Of Youth, Give Pop A ...

Peelander Z @ Public Assembly, NYC: photo by Michael Ligon Last day/night of my trip to New York City and CMJ back in October 2011. (Next year, if I do the NYC trip again, I think I'll just post updates on a daily basis - this is too much work after the fact.) For my last day/night in The Big Apple I took it relatively easier than the other days: - Starbucks near MOMA - Radio City Music Hall - General Electric Building - Rockafeller Center Ice Rink - Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) - Emmy The Great @ Spike Hill - Born Gold & Peelander-Z @ Public Assembly (as part of Day 2 of the Brooklynvegan 'not a CMJ' party) - Grand Central Terminal ; while wandering around ...

Emmy The Great @ Public Assembly, NYC: photo by Michael Ligon - started out the morning exploring the neighbourhood around my hotel (walked down Bowery and then turned on Prince; nice Ralph Lauren and Gant Rugger shops on Prince St, although both way too expensive for what I was willing to pay (I've slowly become a clothes horse over the last few years, although I never buy regular price) - walked to Lafayette for coffee at Dean & Deluca then went window shopping (David Z, Converse, Ben Sherman store @ Mercer St.) - random chat with older dude I passed walking down the street, as we both looked back at the same cute girl who just passed us. ;-) - logged on to the free Wi-Fi @ a Starbucks to check a few things on my iPhone. - browsed the shops on Canal st. - spent some time ...

50 Bill Callahan - Apocalypse 49 Remember Remember - The Quickening 48 The Leisure Society - Into The Murky Water 47 Wave Pictures">The Wave Pictures - Beer In The Breakers 46 Wake The President - Zumutung! 45 Wire - Red Barked Tree 44 Bibio - Mind Bokeh 43 TV On The Radio - Nine Types Of Light 42 Colourmusic - My _____ Is Pink 41 Sacred Harp - Window's A Fall 40 Comet Gain - The Howl Of The Lonely Crowd 39 Honour Before Glory - This Is Broken Lines 38 Sons And Daughters - Mirror Mirror 37 Low - C'Mon 36 Peggy Sue - Acrobats 35 Okkervil River - I Am Very ...

From vintage Amy Winehouse performances to exclusive new songs from Ray Davies, here's the best of the year's videos from Guardian Music It's been a busy year at the Guardian's palatial music studios. Our How I wrote sessions are now firmly established as a place for musicians to demonstrate their chops, hence the number of starry types we've had come and sing for us over the last twelve months. Here are some of the highlights ... To celebrate this year's Royal Wedding we got out the bunting for Emmy the Great, who wrote us a ...