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Introducing… Haim (Interview)
“We love the sun, and the beach. It’s such a big part of our upbringing we cannot help but be influenced by it…” - Este Haim, Haim. While it may not keep many of us up night, we do, at last have an...
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Introducing… Bastille (Interview)
“I think you have to be more experimental and make little compromises to force yourself into different things…” Dan Smith, Bastille. Bastille’s approachable, harmonious pop electronica made them one...
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Introducing… The 1975 (Interview)
“The next year is definitely going to be intense, and we’re never going to have another year like it. It’s gonna be awesome…” Matt Healy, The 1975. Amidst the terraced houses of an affluent South...
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Interview: Willy Mason
“There’s a lot of subject matter on ‘Carry On’ that I wouldn’t have been able to articulate on previous records…” – Willy Mason. With the nu-folk movement conquering the mainstream in recent years with...
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Introducing: Seasfire (Interview)
“We’ve always had big ambitions and been deliberately anthemic” – Seasfire Seasfire’s refusal to be pigeonholed through their self-exclusion from genre boundaries has unsurprisingly made them ones to...
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Introducing… Dog Is Dead (Interview)
“We’re convinced that we’re going to be releasing records for a long time…” Rob White – Dog Is Dead. It’s hard to believe that Dog Is Dead only released their debut album a few short months ago. Their...
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Introducing… Eliza and the Bear (Interview)
“We are actually a manufactured boy band. One of us is really called Eliza…” Just to be clear, both of the above are untrue. Of course they are. First of all, while they may look like the suspiciously...
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Introducing… Rae Morris (Interview)
“‘Call Me Maybe’ isn’t in my iTunes library…” If you’ve managed to catch Noah and the Whale or Bombay Bicycle Club live within the last year, there’s a good chance you also saw Blackpool’s Rae Morris,...
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Interview: The 1975
“It’s a real honour to be able to knick your own CD from HMV, and if I don’t at least get to do that I’ll be pissed off.” Matt Healy – The 1975. Lets go back to November 2012 shall we? In an expensive...
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Introducing… Wildlife (Interview)
“Making a record is like falling in love some of the time and being tortured the rest…” Dean Povinsky, Wildlife. If you’re impatient, a little bit naughty and a big fan of Arcade Fire, you may have...
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Introducing… Girl Band (Interview)
“Some guy was interviewing us in London the other night and was talking like we were this huge band, even though I still live with my ‘ma…”- Daniel Fox, Girl Band Your search engine of choice may hate...
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Introducing… The New Regime (Interview)
“I think I’m truly at my happiest when I’m as productive as possible. I’m very ambitious…” Ilan Rubin, The New Regime. Talent and passion drive a lot of people, and Ilan Rubin is no different. As the...
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Introducing… Paper Lions – Interview & Download
“I think it’s more exciting than ever to be in a band. If you are smart and ambitious, the possibilities are pretty much endless…” Colin Buchanan, Paper Lions. Every band is shaped by their past...
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Introducing… Catfish and the Bottlemen (Interview)
“To be honest I’d rather sell out The Barfly than sell a million singles…” Van McCann, Catfish and the Bottlemen Despite playing what seems like every small venue in the country over the last two...
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Introducing… MMX (Interview)
“I think people compare us to Coldplay because they’re not what people would define as a ‘cool band’, and we’re not cool either…” Ashley Wilkie, MMX. Writing an ‘introducing’ piece on MMX is a rather...
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Introducing… Rachel Sermanni
“I really enjoy the element of space in the Highlands. I’ve not lived next to the sea, but a lot of our family holidays were along the west coast of Scotland. I love the imagery that can come from...
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Introducing… Trails & Ways – Interview
“It’s scary to borrow things from a different culture and fear whether or not you’re coming from a genuine place in how you do it…” Emma Oppen, Trails & Ways. For a band who call California’s Bay...
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Introducing… Stefan Noons
“I suppose this is the result of me rediscovering all these forgotten toys…” – Stefan Noons One of the things that puts huge, ear-to-ear grins across the faces of us here at team WTGR is when a new...
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Introducing… Straw Bear (Interview)
“We like to say that we’ve slowly formed over time like a bad habit, though it sometimes feels like it’s just a hobby that got out of hand…” Ian Ray, Straw Bear Last month we received an email that...
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Introducing… Anna Rose (Interview)
“Songs that form your debut album are kind of the greatest hits of your childhood in a way. And they’re not, for some people, what you end up becoming as an artist…” Anna Rose. Anna Rose is something...
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