Introducing : Circles

After touring the U.K for years including the toilet venues with other bands including Dead relative, violent delight, archie and the instincts and kiosk. This three piece band, Circles who hail from London decided to form their own group, 7 months ago.

The band includes Colin Parkinson — Bass & Vocals (who released vendetta with the […]

It's a Crowded House in Cardiff

Crowded House
Cardiff International Arena– 4^th June 2010
It’s Friday night and Cardiff International Arena is packed out for this sit down Crowded House gig. The audience range from a young family of four with their daughter enthusiastically thrusting her teddy bear towards the stage to an elderly couple eagerly awaiting the bands presence. The range in audience age […]

Burn Down The Charade chat to NBM

Burn down the Charade are a two-piece group from Mesa, Arizona who create emotionally heavy experimental rock that both soothes and stings in equal measure. They have just finished their new album and are the subject of ongoing documentary film. We conducted a short email interview with Daniel Smith and Sean Herring of the band to chat […]

Frantic Jack Tour Announced

New Beats Media first came into contact with Frantic Jack earlier this year when both parties worked together on the free Inspiration — Ispiratio E-CD.
This E-CD was produced by New Beats Media and featured artists from around the world including Frantic Jack who included their single Vancouver. The song proved popular by downloaders and […]

Introducing Steph Horne

Do you find yourself missing the past days of the young Britney? Longing for a bottled-genie Christina or maybe you find sanctuary with the more recent Kelly Clarkson? If you have an open relationship with those innocent pop days, or perhaps their more so your guilty pleasure, either way Steph Horne fits the bill, incorporating features […]

Ozone Baby- Girl with Cassettes

This band’s name may be familiar to you, a familiarity that most likely manifests in the form of the 1972 hit single Ozone Baby ‘70s music kings Led Zeppelin. Their namesake gives away an element of their style, as this dynamic group from Eastbourne take inspiration from said ‘70s band, blending it amongst softer indie […]

Munkinpure : This is where the money went

Johannesburg born and bred Munkinpure, are a band who have the contagious foot tapping habit. Combining rock, grunge, indie and pop, they expose themselves widely across the music scene.
This is where the money went is the bands second album and is a pick n’ mix of melodic rhythms and expressive lyrics. The varying contrast between the tracks […]

Burn Down the Charade and the Infinite...

Burn Down the Charade are a progressive indie band hailing from Phoenix, Arizona. At first contact with the myspace page, i found myself faced with a black, down to earth no frills kind of interface. Having written that however and now you having read it, it is not a beneficial habit to get caught up in superficial matters.
This is […]

65daysofstatic headline at Trinity Centre

The Trinity Centre in Bristol is fairly striking when you first come across it, especially if you’re not expecting it to be an old, majestic church building. However, on entering the centre it becomes fairly obvious from the presence of a bar that it is a church no longer. That and the presence of 65daysofstatic, of course. […]

Laura Marling : Young and Gifted

It is hard for me to believe that the petite, self-assured woman standing in front of the assembled crowd is actually several years my junior. I get the impression she tires of hearing everyone talk of how mature her lyrics and music are for the youth of their creator, but even just standing there with her […]