 | | Wolf People are difficult to pigeon hole. With influences ranging from rock, folk, psych, and the most obscure cuts in your cool dad’s record collection, you have to listen to believe. The London based band have so far released singles through the Battered Ornament and Sea record labels, and have picked up fans across the UK music press as well as on radio shows such as BBC 6Music’s Freak Zone. Myspace |
| | With influences ranging from the purest pop to the New York scene of Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Liars, The Tigerpicks obscure the boundaries and it’s this mix of sounds that convinced Deltasonic/Columbia Records to sign the band. Having so far released one single, the high energy Disco Punk Electro Punk, the band’s debut album will follow later this year. Time in the studio has limited their live performances in 2008 but with an appearance at the Pohoda Festival in Slovakia scheduled in mid-July, the band have a busy second half of the year ahead. Myspace |
| | Hailing from Chatham in Kent, Brigadier Ambrose’s music is a healthy mix of influences including Pavement, The Smiths and Super Furry Animals. Having so far turned down two record deals in order to keep control of their music, the band certainly haven’t missed out on anything with heavy backing across the nation’s airwaves on stations including BBC Radio 1, 2, 6 Music and XFM. Third single, ‘Mrs Peel We’re Needed’ was released in mid April and a forthcoming highlight for the band is guaranteed to be a performance at Z008 Festival in July.
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| | South Wales rockers Kick Box Riot are another recent Sentric artist that are doing it for themselves. After self funding and releasing their debut EP in March the band have been picking up fans across the country and play the main stage at this year’s Wakestock festival alongside musical heavyweights such as Mark Ronson and Funeral For A Friend. Watch out over the coming months for the band as they appear in magazines such as Rock Sound and Total Guitar and towards the end of the year when they plan to release another single. Myspace |
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Having been together “in one form or another” since they were 13, Sheffield based five piece Rolo Tomassi play with more spirit, chops and controlled aggression than some bands twice their age. The band, whether they are or not, sound like a product of their environment. The rural steel works surroundings of their homes is at the core of their heavy clanking industrial rhythms, grinding and sickly guitars and moments of pastoral beauty that morph violently into bloodshed. This in evidence on their debut album ‘Hysterics’, which is released through Hassle Records on the 22nd September, as it skates delicately over jazz, prog, hardcore, doom, folk, grindcore, electronica and more without ever sounding dilettantish or like a mad woman’s breakfast. With live dates planned throughout the rest of 2008, now’s the time to join the band’s ever growing number of followers. Myspace | | |  |
The Thirst are a band who will do everything they can to make you listen to them. Playing anywhere and everywhere they could, they have built up their fan base the old fashioned way, with relentless gigging across London and the rest of the country has meant it’s not uncommon for the band to sometimes play six shows a week. It was at one of these shows, at The Half Moon in Putney, when Ronnie Wood discovered them and signed them up instantly to his very own Wooden Recordings. This set the real rollercoaster in motion and after performances at the likes of the Isle of Wight Festival, Hyde Park Calling and Glastonbury, plus support slots for the Sex Pistols and Rolling Stones, the band released their debut album ‘On The Brink’ in May. Myspace |
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