It's Time for Dancing

‘Don’t think I won’t do it. I will come out there and get you dancing.’ The audience looks slightly dumbfounded at this proclamation coming from the Eleven 37’s stage. ‘I’ve got a megaphone and I am prepared to use it.’
Though unsure of a how a megaphone would have assisted Jamie Topp, lead vocalist of the band, with this particular challenge, the determination […]

Mark Set Go

A Tantalising Début From No Lights At Lockdown
Forming as a five piece in 2009, this energetic group of lads have since quickly and by no means quietly established themselves on the gigging scene. Hitting up the UK with their headline tour last summer, they played 45 gigs in 3 months. A year on and No Lights at […]

Rap Is Power : Column #1

Quote Of The Month:

“You ready? Workin’ hard no time to play/ love,
living our vision everyday

Artist Spotlight:
Artist Name: Anca
From radio station interviews to fashion show concerts, Duval’s very own Hip-Hop sensation, by the name of Anca, is making some major moves. Constantly and consistently dropping hot and innovative music for her myriad of fans, there’s no debate, in […]

Rap Is Power - Duval's Prodigy

Rap Is Power, real name, Daniel Stallings is an eighteen year old rapper from Jacksonville, Florida. After being so impressed with Rap Is Power’s One Man Mission mix tape earlier this year I was eager to listen to his latest offering Duval’s Prodigy.
As with One Man Mission’ R.I.P has once again collaborated with other acts, […]

Frank Chat:

A snapshot into the mind and musings of Frank Turner

He’s got 3 solo albums behind him, has a new EP on the way, is soon to kick-off another UK tour and plans to be back in the studio before you can say ‘2011’.
He’s got 56,441 “likes” on Facebook, has had absolutely no help from Simon Cowell and is […]

Arizona Bay

Rhys Williams :Vocals/Guitar
Sam Wood : Guitar
Rob Carruthers : Drums
Oli Tsakonas : Bass

NBM Artists Profile — Arizona Bay

“All the shitty shows are gone, all the idiots screaming in the fu**ing wind are dead, I love it…leaving nothing but a cool, beautiful serenity called Arizona Bay
— Bill Hicks

Whilst this statement is neither a review of Leeds’ leading grunge revivalists, nor perhaps […]

Introducing : The Last Men

Music, just like life itself, evolves. Moving freely from genre to genre, form to form. In the early years of this decade if you weren’t wearing skinny jeans and a low-cut vest top, hanging round Camden nightclubs, smoking roll-up cigarettes you weren’t a cool band. Countless bands sounding like The Strokes and The Libertines started to emerge […]

Début EP : More Than Conquerors

More Than Conquerors are the latest band to emerge from the ever creative Northern Irish music scene. This week sees the release of their self titled début EP. The five song set is well thought out, each track different from the last.
I’ve Done Nothing/I’ve Done It All is a superb opener. It simmers along for fifty seconds […]

Illness : For All You ABC 1’s Out There

Brighton’s best (and possibly only) post rock/math rock duo, Illness returned this month with their second EP entitled For All You ABC 1’s Out There. This is a gritty, lo-fi affair, encompassing just drums and guitar; it plays like the remedy to every atrocious synth/pop/R&B mash up we’ve heard so far this year. Influenced somewhat by […]

Foals : Blue Blood

Blue Blood exposes Foals for what they really are– geniuses at creating something powerful from simple repetition and melody.
I think this song beautifully marks the beginning of Foals’ second voyage with their album Total life forever. As the first song on the album it starts with a simple yet addictive tune exposing the lead […]