THE AMBIENCE AFFAIR

The Ambience Affair are renowned for front man Jamie Clarke’s impassioned vocal delivery and layered looped guitars, kept in check by the pounding rhythm section of drummer Marc Gallagher. Released to broad critical acclaim Burials is the group’s first full length album and their first release on Bluestack Records. Following their own headline tour for Burials in October/November 2011, The Ambience Affair were invited to join Lisa Hannigan on her sold-out tour of Ireland throughout December where they played to packed venues including Dublin’s Vicar Street, The Savoy in Cork and Mandela Hall in Belfast.  In December, the band also featured on Other Voices 10 which will be screened on RTE in early March ‘12.

SLOW MAGIC

Making music while staying anonymous in the Internet age isn’t only difficult, it’s fun. A couple weeks ago, Slow Magic comprised of an “unknown imaginary friend” bubbled up from nowhere with an incredibly delicious single, “Sorry Safari. The�glo-fi outfit whispered into the conversation like a mysterious woman at a cocktail party— who is that stranger? That hair, that dress! Who’s she here with? You ask the host, but they don’t have any idea, and everyone seems too shy to go up and speak to her. And so you’re content with just gazing quickly, taking sly looks while nuzzling your cocktail nonchalantly, tapping your foot to the beat.

SELEBRITIES

How, nowadays, become rich, beautiful and famous without having to touch the handle you say? The answer lies perhaps in the New York trio of Maria Usbeck, Robert Paulin Jer and Max Peterson consists Selebrities. According to them, we could almost celebrate the meeting of the New Order, Cure and Chromatics combined. They are signed on Cascine Records (Chad Valley, etc.) “Brooklyn trio Selebrities thread together gangly guitars reminiscent of those excreted by Robert Smith’s Schecter Signature at its most gruesome with an enchantingly synthetic drum machine misery and utterly insatiable addictivity.” - Dots and Dashes “Selebrities are American but they have the aesthetic sense of 1982 northerners” - The Guardian uk