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Single: Purple Lovers by Samskara Rad
30/09/2022
I know very little about Samsara Rad, which is my bad. But I very much like Purple Lovers - reminds me a little of Blinding Nights by The Weeknd - my kids love that song! Full of high energy, fast tempos and damn fine psychedelic falsetto, it’s great.
Single: Kill The Giants by Bob Lazar
22/09/2022
St Albans electronic collective Kill The Giants’ latest single is a tribute to Bob Lazar, ever heard of him? Nope me neither.
Single: Right Where It Belongs by Sylvette
14/09/2022
Manchester-based art-rock five-piece Sylvette’s stupendous cover of NIN’s Right Where It Belongs. It’s straight into my top five of 2022.
SINGLE: I Can’t Say No by Dylan De Bono
13/08/2022
After a summer hiatus we all clamber on board the tour bus and the destination this time is Malta. I Can’t Say No by singer/songwriter is the ideal and perfect summer track, the perfect amount of rhythmic beats and melodies, subtle over dubbing of catchy lyrics - yet has a dark and intriguing side too.
Single: Biscuits by Everyone Lies
25/06/2022
Got to love at bit of high octane fun. Fans of 90s band’s such as Blink 182 are in for a real treat. Southampton’s very own Everyone Lies latest release Biscuits is two minutes of pure punk.
Single: Invisble Girl by Vix:20
25/06/2022
Veterans of the music industry Gary Mills and CJ are Vix:20, after walking away from the music industry - vowing not to return. They are back. Now rejuvenated, and to quote the band themselves, “hard rockers turned to the dark side of pop”.
Single: When The Sun Comes Up by Aria jay
13/06/2022
Fans of Sam Smith, Goldfrapp and others are in for a real treat. Brooklyn native Aria Jay’s When the sun comes up’. Is an indie pop meets chill out banger.
Single: Running by 3jay
13/06/2022
A bit of deviation from our usual path, but we at NBR like all types of music and if it’s great then we will review it - that and the fact the DJ 3jay lives not that far from where I live.
Single: Smoking is Cool by Bingo Fighter
11/06/2022
Apologies this came out back in April, but it’s well worthy of a mention in despatches. Well this makes me smile, which is the world in which we live is a great thing.
Single: Gotta Run by Mark Daly and The Ravens
10/06/2022
A bit behind here with the enormous amount of new tunes filling my inbox (Mark) Daly and The Ravens - pardon the pun. Released back in April but worthy of a reprise - just sorry it’s taken so long to get here.
Single: Capeland by Liv Elisabeth
05/06/2022
I love this. Capeland is very comforting, using Liv’s beautiful voice, energy and tone - to be honest it’s been on repeat (I think my neighbours must think someone’s had a relationship break-up - that sort of endless repeat!)
Single: You Don’t Own Me by Muddibrooke
05/06/2022
The latest release is a cover to the Lesley Gore’s 1964 iconic “You Don't Own Me”. Now, to me covers need to be unique and surprising, I am thinking of Disturbed’s version of Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘The Sound of Silence’ or Linkin Park’s version of Adele’s ‘Rolling in the Deep’.
Single: Terraform by Lazyrave
05/06/2022
Newcastle residents and indie electronic four-piece band LAZYRAVE are new to us here at No Barriers Radio, (their first single was in 2019) but we like - a lot! Terraform is the latest release, multi-layered, chilled (imagine a post night out come down - not sure I remember that far back if the truth be told!)
Single: Two by Redgrave Jones
05/06/2022
Tickets please. Next stop LA. Well this I like a lot, it kind of reminds me (conceptually) of a James Bond theme opening credits. I can really see that. Redgrave’s lyrical style is very much that of Beth Gibbons of Portishead fame, which we can all agree isn’t a bad place to be.
Single: Feel Alive by The Great Leslie
04/06/2022
Stalwarts of The Inner Sleeve, The Great Leslie, return yet again with another banger. Hot on the heels of the excellent ‘Hold On To My Ex’ comes ‘Feel Alive’ which is, as usual excellent.
Single: Bottle of Sin by Avalanche
01/06/2022
Long haul tour bus journey this time. I’d pay for the extra leg room that’s for sure. Next stop Australia and the latest single ‘Bottle of Sun’ by Avalanche. A four piece hard rock meets old school rock band from Western Sydney, playing high octane, frenetic heart-racing, gut-busting, roof crashing Aussie rock.
Single: 15 by Haytor
01/06/2022
Oooo, I like this a lot, I can’t exactly put my finger on exactly why. It could be the nostalgia of the jangly guitars, or the way it crosses the indie divide and dabbles it’s toes into the murky world of pop.
Single: Autumn (While you were sleeping) by The Quicksilver Kings
07/05/2022
Something new to the Inner Sleeve, and a genre warping indie meets blues meets folk meets country meets sixties inspired alternative pop (keep up) band is Hull’s acoustic three-piece The Quicksilver Kings and their latest release is the glorious Autumn (while you were sleeping). It’s mighty fine, but where do we start?
Single: Last Night by MELIS
04/05/2022
Fans of 90s RnB are in for a real treat from Melis, previously a contestant on Norways’s X factor (yes we are back on tour again) and provided the voices for amongst other Sally in Disney’s car and more importantly (in my eyes at least) Smurfs: The Lost Village (boom there we have it!) Her latest release is Last Night, and it’s a corker.
Single: The Other Side by Wishburn
24/04/2022
All aboard the tour bus again, and this time next stop is Chicago and Billboard-charting pop/electronic/dance, Fishburn. He only arrived on the scene in 2020 (nothing happened that year right?)
Single: Sleepwalker by Acid Claw
21/04/2022
This is rather cool. How can I describe Acid Claw’s music, not sure, but I will give it a go. They are a punk band that gets in a slanging match with metal band, meets and has a tear up with ska band and then has a beer with thrash band (I think that’s a good as it’s going to get) - formed in 2020 (remember that year anyone?)
Single: Don't Burn The Sky by Steven Faulkner
29/03/2022
Why don't you… Just switch off your TV and do something less boring instead (a reference there for the millenials… not!) Rather than just sit watching the Ukraine shit show that we have been watching for the past couple of months, Hinckley native Steven Faulkner decided to put his creative talents to articulate his thoughts.
SINGLE: Eternity by DVL
29/03/2022
Want loud? Need loud? Then we have a new track for you, from Scottish metal band DVL - did I mention it was loud? No? You probably couldn’t hear me…
SINGLE: Particles by Piqued Jacks
29/03/2022
Fans of the Inner Sleeve will (hopefully) recognise the name of Italian Alt rockers Piqued Jacks. We featured earlier on in the year the excellent Everything South the follow-up is Particles, which is a complete change of pace, in fact stretches to a halt and handbrakes into a ballad.
Single: Magnetar by Tyrannosaurus Nebulous
29/03/2022
Fans of The Inner Sleeve will know we have included Black Country 70s inspired rockers Tyrannosaurus Nebulous before. And the latest release Magnetar is brimmed full of old school riffs, modern hooks, solos and James Miles’ unique rock god voice.
Single: Raindrops by Doru Jambru
24/03/2022
Fans of 90s trance are in for a treat here, and a bit of change of pace for The Inner Sleeve. Our musical journey now stops off in Romania with multi-instrumental musician Doru Jambru, drawing inspiration from such trance luminaries such as Robert Miles and Paul Van Dyk.
Single: Requiem by Koburg
23/03/2022
Well March has seen a glut of excellent tunes into my inbox that it’s hard to keep up. And Requiem by the multi-talented London based Koburg is no exception. When I say multi-talented, she performs all the vocals and instruments and just put us all to shame, and while everyone else was panicking over their soda bread starter, she was teaching herself the cello and violin to add more orchestral depth to her tracks.
Single: My My, Hey Hey by Romero
23/03/2022
Back on the world tour, and back in the US with another stop in Tennessee to visit Christopher C. Romero aka Romero, an actor, singer songwriter and multi instrumentalist based in Nashville. My My, Hey Hey is a eclectic mix of hard rock, country, southern rock and acoustic genres.
SINGLE: No U by Nick Henderson
23/03/2022
Back on the tour bus and this time we head off to gig with Tennessee native singer-songwriter Nick Henderson and his debut single ‘No U’ out now. Drawing on musical inspiration across the board such as the Ed Sheeran, John Mayer, Dave Matthews etc. I’ve listened to this a number of times and I think it’s great, clearly a big hint of inspiration of Ed Sheeran (you may have heard of him?) but in my eyes better (sorry I have nothing personally against Ed).
Single: Water Run Dry by Sofia Gillani
23/03/2022
Singer/songwriter Sofia Gillani’s latest release Water Run Dry is an ode to preserving even when it feels like odds are against you, as in ‘the water has run dry’ - I like the analogy.
Single: Sleepless by WREX
23/03/2022
Well this is ace, (its on my running playlist already) a heady combination of beats, guitars, and vocals. Wrex are an alt-rock Brighton based duo, Mae Seaton on vocals and multi-instrumentalist George Donoghue.
Single: Wish you Well by Black Water Fiend
14/03/2022
Assume the ‘rock’ guitar stance. Black Water Fiend is a heavy rock band based in Coventry, formed in 2018. Wish You Well is (very) heavy on the drums, (another one to add to the running playlist, more time off the PB now… maybe).
SINGLE: Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad by Kuill
11/03/2022
I thought that 2022 musically had started off a bit slow but since the end of Jan it has literally exploded with such a wide array of stonking great tracks. And this is no exception. An excellent cover and a fitting tribute to the untimely passing recently of Meatloaf.
Single: Unmasked Dreams by Screaming Earth
03/03/2022
All aboard the tour bus, next stop Warsaw, Poland and a date with art-rock band Screaming Earth. Let’s paint a picture, imagine if Pink Floyd and Public Information Broadcasting had a ménage à trois with Mike Oldfield then you are getting close to the track Unmasked Dreams.
Single: Wake Up on Saturday by The Perps
01/03/2022
Manchester Indie, alt-rock band, The Perps latest single Wake On Saturday is kind of a throw back to when Mancunian bands pulled the air-waves. Oh those were the days…
Single: A List Lives by A State of Romance
27/02/2022
Wow. This is amazing! And one of the reasons I love music, it’s the way that you can be totally blown away with one track and can change your mood. I salute you A State of Romance.
Single: No Way Out by Just A Ride
26/02/2022
Regular readers of the Inner Sleeve will know we are fans of Just a Ride, hot on the heels of the excellent Not Enough is the equally brilliant No Way Out.
Single: Blood-Starved Beast by Saahil Bhargava
25/02/2022
A rock opera in the making, with so many layers, it’s simply beautifully curated. The drum and piano are sumptuous with New York native Saahil’s vocals (think Brian Molko of Placebo) are spot on.
Single: Truth Hurts by Standing Like Statues
22/02/2022
Hailing from Cambridge, alt-rockers Standing by Statues latest release is excellent (a classic in the making). I like this very much, the perfect blend of haunting vocals and energetic (and loud) guitar interspersed with rhythmical beats
Single: I Wonder by Skinny Knowledge
22/02/2022
This upbeat, foot tapping tune made me smile immediately, which can’t be bad start and that was merely the beginning. I Wonder by Skinny Knowledge kind of has a bit of everything you need, it’s raucous, containing thunderous drum, roaring guitars, powerful vocals yet it’s perfectly created.
Single: Attic Theory by Tattooed Heart
22/02/2022
The past couple of weeks has been pretty damn great for new releases (in fact I have been slightly overwhelmed TBH). One to add to the play loud playlist is Tattooed Heart by Liverpool's very own excellent Attic Theory.
Single: The Storm by Marshall Potts
14/02/2022
Well, I like this very much. Canadian singer-songwriter, Marshall Potts, from British Columbia, whose back-catalogue includes two movie soundtracks and three CDs. His latest release, The Storm, is Americana, meets Country Rock with a dalliance with Rock, lyrically slick The Storm is a multi-layered beast of a song with big booming guitars, rhythmic drums, layered with exquisite backing vocals and topped off perfectly with tantalising banjo chords - who doesn’t like a tune with a banjo!)
Single: Satellite by The Kut
13/02/2022
Listeners to The Deuce show here on No Barriers Radio will be aware that we adore The Kuts’ ANIMO, released last year. The Kut is a multi-instrumentalist and all-round alpha-geek (she has a PhD in Psychology, specialising in schizotypy - nope me neither).
Single: Hold On To My Ex by The Great Leslie
09/02/2022
Well, we (I mean, I) like this very much. The Great Leslie may have only been formed in 2020, but let’s say they have been prolific (Eight singles, an EP and counting!) How On to My Ex is a poppy, upbeat indie/rock track - think of a hint of The Communards, meets a dash of Alt J. Love it!
Single: Hey Boy! By Single by Sunday
25/01/2022
A remastered and rereleased version of Hey Boy! Bu colourful coiffured Scottish band Single by Sunday. Formed back in 2015, (the original version of Hey Boy! was released last year), this time punchier with more depth.
Single: Everything South by Piqued Jacks
22/01/2022
Next up on our world tour are Italian dance rockers Piqued Jacks’ latest release Everything South is a punchy edgy gritty dance-rock track with melodic bass and explosive guitar riffs.
Single: Theatrical Love by Dronningen
22/01/2022
European pop meets Elastica in the latest release from SE London based Italian duo and electro-rockers Dronningen (Queen in Norwegian).
Single: Feeding The Reel by Nightblade
14/01/2022
Alternative rock out Nightblade’s latest release Feeding The Reel is an energetic, booming, loud rock T.U.N.E. Vocalist and frontman, Mark Crosby explains, “This record is a journey into mystery, darkness, and the fearful unknown – a quest to understand the human mind and its minefield of complexities.”
SINGLE: Deeper by Zac And The New Men
14/01/2022
Well, this is pretty amazing. Formed during one of the interminable lockdowns, Zac and The New Men have been taking their home town’s music scene, Swansea, by storm.
Single: Little Babylon by The Roadside Bandits Project
12/01/2022
The Roadside Bandits Project’s latest blues guitar-driven single, Little Babylon, features vocals from The King’s Pistols’ very own Julian Casewell. The track draws sombre parallels of historical maleficence to the devastating effects of Covid-19 today.
Single: Everlasting Moor by Lammping
12/01/2022
This year we are No Barriers Radio are throwing our new music net as far afield as possible. First up is Toronto’s very own Lammping (named after a public enemy lyric with an extra ‘m’).
Single: Deal With My Evil by Tyrannosaurus Nebulous
12/01/2022
Fans of classic 70s hard rock are in for a treat with Tyrannosaurus Nebulous’s latest release ‘Deal with my Evil’. Hailing from Stourbridge, bar the bassist (he is from Caerphilly).
Single: Not Enough by Just a Ride
12/01/2022
A bit of 90s retrospective, or at least it would be if it was made 30 years ago, but it’s new! Not Enough by Just a Ride has a dash of Pearl Jam, hint of Stone Temple Pilots, blah blah (you get the idea! You can make up your own mind).
Lego Fender® Stratocaster™, £89.99
12/01/2022
Christmas may have come and gone but hey ho (ho ho ho) - just look at this! Just look at this! Lego does it again with this amazing Fender® Stratocaster™, in a choice of two colours (black and red, obviously), a guitar stand and a model of the classic 65 Princeton® Reverb amplifier.
Re-release: Waiting for Christmas by The Kut
13/12/2021
Originally released in 2020, but who remembers Christmas 2020? The government clearly doesn’t, but let’s avoid politics here in the Inner Sleeve! Eventually charting at a stonking No10 on Christmas Day.
Christmas wish list: Coffee Table Music Books
12/12/2021
We love music, and books and what could be better - books about music! Here we have four must-haves for any music aficionados Christmas wish list.
Singles: Christmas Songs as recommended by The Deuce Show
12/12/2021
Christmas songs, Love 'em or hate ‘em, personally, I’m in the ‘bring it on’ camp. Christmas No1 used to be a badge of honour and everyone vied from that honour from Elton to er, Bob The Builder. We asked our good friends from The Deuce show to pick three new releases from this year, and here they are;
Christmas wish list: Record Store Day Vouchers
10/12/2021
Stuck on a gift idea or need to drop some serious hints? Yet want to support your local record shop and boost your record collection at the same time? Then we may have found you the perfect gift.
SINGLE: Out Tonight by Nova Bloom
09/12/2021
Following on from the excellent City Lights, which came out in the summer, but with one thing and another, I never got around to posting a review. Which was a big mistake
Single: Reality by A State of Romance
29/11/2021
With more than a nod to the vocals of a cross between Linkin Park and a sprinkling of Rage Against The Machine (which I think we can all admit can’t be such a bad thing).
Single: Sparks by Catalysts
29/11/2021
With more than a hint of The Editors meets War on Drugs, Sparks by Catalysts is a ballsy, booming indie rock track is a T U N E. Some tracks you hear for the first time and you want to hear them live.
Single: Anna by The Great Leslie
29/11/2021
London Indie alternative rock four-piece may have only formed in 2020, but they haven’t let anything like a global pandemic get in the way and hold them back.
Single: Stabbed in the Back by Black Spiders
10/11/2021
Well hello, proper old skool M.E.T.A.L. Stabbed in the Back is high tempo, fast and furious, big riffs, heavy on rock n' roll, from Sheffield's second-best rock band (I am under contract to say that - you know who you are), Black Spiders.
SINGLE: Sunrise by Fear of Falling
10/11/2021
The last couple of months music is the gift that keeps on giving, especially if you can't get enough of Rockdown.
Single: Unispired by Dead Reynolds
10/11/2021
So far this week has been a great new music week and Uninspired by Dead Reynolds, out this Friday, is no exception. Uninspired is the third single from their debut album, 'Breathe with Strangers'.
Single: Lea Bridge by James Sullivan
08/11/2021
The start of a new week, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed? Nope me neither, but this hit my inbox this morning and I have to say I think it's great! The debut solo album from More Kicks frontman James Sullivan, Light Years, was born out of a challenge to write 10 songs in 10 days during last year's lockdown.
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