Musically, Summer Camp take loads of elements from all the bands that I’m in love with and compact them all into one handy place.

Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker (Bloodshot Records/Cooking Vinyl) Released:2000 It begins with an argument. An ominous start for a solo career wrought with drugs, alcohol and a broken wrist. In the aftermath of his band Whiskeytown imploding, and the break up from music-industry publicist girlfriend Amy Lombardi, Ryan Adams left an apartment on avenue A and [...]

All hail The Knife! The dynamic duo behind the original (and best) version of Silent Shout have entered into a happy musical marriage with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock. The result is a contemporary opera on a theme of Charles Darwin, entitled Tomorrow, In A Year. If you fancy giving the title track a spin, then [...]

They may evoke the moody, overcast skies of autumn hurtling towards winter, but Broken Records look set to be the band of the summer.

Together, Mawkin:Causley provide the ultimate folkie’s dream – cracking tunes and a voice to give some of the oldest songs in the tradition a new interpretation.

Give it up now! Motel readers across the interweb sea, rejoice! Eels are returning with a dozen new songs in the form of their forthcoming album entitled Hombre Loco, due for release in a couple of months’ time. They have put together a short promotional video to this effect in glorious, er, monochrome.

Although he brings some tremendously innovative slide guitar playing to the table, along with more conventional upright methods, it’s Rudd’s use of the didgeridoo that attracts attention.

O. Children’s Tobias holds out a massive hand as I greet the band in Brixton’s dingy Windmill venue on a cold January evening. I had heard and read the man was tall – he’s around 6’6” – but his strikingly angular facial features coupled with a sizable frame gives him an aura to behold. Sitting [...]

Roll up, roll up for the speaker-rattling new single from The Answering Machine! And about time too! The first single to be taken from the band’s debut album, lovingly recorded in Yorkshire at the back end of 2008 and produced by Dave Eringa, the video features the rise (and fall) of a terrifying ventriloquist’s dummy. [...]

Happy new year from The Fugitive Motel! Motelville officially ‘opens’ again on January 5th, and many many changes – both cosmetic and organisational – are planned and will be gradually introduced over the next six months. Hopefully, they’ll make the site easier to navigate for you. We also hope they will make it easier for [...]