Brigade are a four piece rock band, who hail from London. The band have been together since 2003,
and have just released the double A side single ‘Sink, Sink, Swim’/ ‘Stunning’ from their second album ‘Come Morning We Fight.’
The first track ‘Sink, Sink, Swim’ is
not a majorly memorable song but shows the band has definite promise. The lead man Will Simpson has quite a good voice, which is not unsimilar to his brother Charlie Simpson, the singer from Busted and later Fightstar. However, the single is very similar to a lot of other bands on the music scene at the moment. I was really surprised to find out that Brigade are actually a British rock band, because I thought they sounded American. Unfortunately I think this is just a case of them trying to sound like
an American band, and this is disappointing because a British band should sound exactly that; British. Read more
American rockers Scars on Broadway are a five piece band from LA. “They Say” is the first o
ffering from the band, and boy is it memorable. When I originally listened to the single the first thing that shot in to mind was this sounds incredibly similar to System of a Down! So you can imagine I wasn’t too shocked to find out that two of the bands members Daron Malakian and John Dolmayan used to be in SOAD.
However, after listening again I started to think that although there are definite influences by SOAD, Scars on Broadway are very much their own band. Although the track is quite heavy metal, it seems the band have gone more down the rock path, and luckily there is no crazy yelling or screaming in the song, which SOAD are famous for. Read more
Funky, fresh Brit pop is the only way to describe the sounds of curly haired new comer Jack McManus. The youngster has r
ecently toured with Amy MacDonald and Sam Sparro, and is set to play at V Festival in August.
The 23 year old singer songwriter from Bromley has just started out in the music business, and follows his first single ‘Bang on the Piano’ with another track from his 2008
debut album ‘Either Side of Midnight,’ named ‘You Think I Don’t Care.’ Read more
<iframe src="http://rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk/e/cm?t=laughriot-21&o=2&p=8&l=as1&asins=B001652FJM&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=FFFFFF&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr&nou=1" style="width: 120px; height: 240px" m
arginwidth=”0″ marginheight=”0″ align=”left” frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no”>I really hadn’t heard much of Elliot Minor when I received their new album, but I began listening armed with a cup of sugary tea and an open mind.
Elliot Minor, formerly The Academy, are a five piece rock band from York who first hit the music scene in 2007. All of the members are classically trained rockers, and say their sound is like nothing you’ve ever heard before. They cite their musical influences
as Jack’s Mannequin, Muse, All American Rejects and Something Corporate.
As I said before I had only really heard the band mentioned by name, so I was looking forward to hearing what all the fuss was about. Luckily, the opening track of their self titled album, ‘Time After Time’, didn’t disappoint. Read more
