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John McCullagh is 1 singer/songwriter who are able to legitimately be called a prodigy: he was discovered with a legendary Uk music mogul when he was only 14, and earned rave evaluations for his debut album, which arrived only a 12 months later. Given birth to John Lennon McCullagh in …

A collaboration between guitarist Paul Arthurs — most widely known as Bonehead, the next guitarist in Oasis through the group’s ’90s heyday — and songer/writer Alan Wilkes (who performs beneath the stage name Vinny Peculiar and has previously caused such iconoclasts as Expenses Drummond and Luke Haines), Parlour Flames is …

The alluring consequence of Pakistani and Norwegian parentage, Whitburn, South Tyneside-based singer/songwriter Nadine Shah possesses a voice and moreover, a mystique, which has oft been referred to as a blend between PJ Harvey and Nick Cave, but her brooding, intensely atmospheric mixture of midnight loner pop and torchy, jazz-kissed indie …

Welsh singer/songwriter Jodie Marie (given birth to Jodie Marie Warlow) makes yearning folk-pop having a bent toward soulful ballads and bluesy anthems. A indigenous of Narberth, Pembrokeshire, Wales, Jodie was raised hearing blues music, started carrying out locally at age group seven, and by her teenagers was composing her own …

Formed in ’09 2009 by Alasdair MacLean from the Clientele and Spanish vocalist/instrumentalist Lupe Núñez-Fernández from the indie pop duo Pipas, Amor de Dias, which means “love of days,” started assembling in secret in 2008 on evenings and weekends. Bolstered with a pit team of seasoned music artists like Louis …

London-based retro-pop quartet the Reflections may count Gene Pitney and Scott Walker as influences, but their moody and melodramatic mixture of contemporary indie rock and shady ’60s pop evokes contemporaries like Richard Hawley, Morrissey, and Last Shadow Puppets as very much since it does days gone by masters. Produced in …

Heavily influenced simply by Burt Bacharach and blessed with effortless, velvety smooth vocals, Anglo-Pakistani singer/songwriter Rumer harks back again to the early-’70s easy listening sounds of Karen Carpenter and Carole King. Delivered in 1979 to United kingdom parents surviving in Islamabad, Rumer (genuine name Sarah Joyce) was the youngest of …

Created in 2008 round the talents of Alex Davey Saunders, Daniel Hopewell, George Waite, and Russell Bates, Uk indie rockers the Crookes create sly, romantically doomed, contemporary pop songs which have attracted comparisons to artists like Vampire Weekend, Belle and Sebastian, the Housemartins, as well as the Smiths. The music …