http://www.myspace.com/adamgreen1

Adam Green is a famous American celebrity from New York City. At the beginning of his career he moved to Germany to seek political asylum from the persecution of his talents. He was greeted with open arms and formed a theatre company which produced a ballet concert. While living in East Germany, he was offered a co-starring role in the movie Juno, which won the Grammy and went platinum. After his work with The Moldy Peaches was done, he recorded 6 solo albums, including the latest, "Minor Love."

http://www.myspace.com/fixingthecharts

Everybody Was In The French Resistance…Now are comprised of Eddie Argos from Art Brut and Dyan Valdés from The Blood Arm. The band (also a couple) formed on a car journey home from San Francisco to Los Angeles. “Jimmy Mack” by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas was playing on the radio - Eddie has always had a problem with this song, as it is cruel to sing a song to your boyfriend telling him you are planning to cheat on him – so Eddie told Dyan that someone needed to defend poor Jimmy Mack. Jimmy was probably off fighting in Vietnam (the song was released in 1967), and there she was singing about getting off with some other boy who “talks just as sweet.” Dyan agreed with Eddie’s disapproval of Martha’s infidelity, and they went home that night and wrote a response to the song from Jimmy’s perspective.

Soon, they began to think of other pop songs with which they disagreed, and set about “fixing them.” They demoed 12 songs in their house in LA, then decided to make a proper record and headed out to Joshua Tree to record them with producer/engineer David Newton (ex-Mighty Lemon Drops guitarist/songwriter; Little Ones, The Blood Arm producer)

http://www.myspace.com/iankingofengland

“It’s been quite a while since I felt this excited and impressed by a singer. Ian King has star-quality and a commanding stage-presence. He is a grown-up singer, straightforward and strong, and his band, which includes the incomparable Skip McDonald, surprises and intrigues with accompaniments that are elegant, witty, daring and powerful.
This is English folk music for the 21st century!”

Shirley Collins - April 2009

http://www.myspace.com/hotclubdeparis
http://www.myspace.com/thetraviswaltons
http://www.myspace.com/cavaliertherockband

"Hot Club’s true raison d’être is to ram together as many far-flung genres into their Looney Tunes barbershop-pop as Xenomania’s most bonkers productions for Girls Aloud. With such a willingness to throw so much shit at the wall, not all of it sticks, but the really dazzling thing about Hot Club is that they manage all this with the boring old bass, drums and guitar set-up." NME

http://www.myspace.com/fuzzylights

Cambridge hasn't produced something this simultaneously achingly beautiful, weird, loud and quiet since Gwei-Lo were cruelly robbed from us. Gorgeous noise, americana melodies and cool as f**k.

http://www.myspace.com/twofingersoffirewater

http://www.myspace.com/pollyandtheband

TWO FINGERS OF FIRE WATER

"If you were to put Jay Farrar, They Might Be Giants, and The Jayhawks into a giant blender and push the "puree" button, you may create a giant bloody mess. But, if you concentrated really hard and thought positive thoughts, you might end up with Two Fingers of Firewater." Americana Music Times

POLLY & THE BILLET DOUX

Perrys exquisite voice is the killer here: it blends the dynamism of Wanda Jackson with Norah Jones effortless cool. All round, its quite an achievement.

4/5 - Uncut Magazine

http://www.myspace.com/pulledapartbyhorses

‘Surely the greatest live band in Britain.' The Observer

‘Nobody said the revolution would be pretty. Equine-based torture never sounded so sexy.' NME

‘Brilliantly unpredictable smarty-pants art metal, hoarse hardcore. Beautifully focused racket.' Kerrang

'This Leeds four-piece are causing quite a stir with their manic art-punk convulsion, discover why Pulled Apart by Horses are the name on everyone’s lips.' Rocksound Magazine

http://www.myspace.com/loscampesinos

After 9 years, thousands of bands and lots of hangovers, Green Mind hits it's 9th Birthday. This year we've got Los Campesinos to help us see it off right:

"Los Campesinos! are probably the first big UK indie band to have grown up not with the NME, Melody Maker, or even the fucking Fly. They sound like the first UK indie band who have grown up reading Pitchfork. What this means is, while that obviously makes them horrid, horrid people to hold a conversation about music with, they’re free from all of the negative influences that British indie is committed to bathing itself in over and over again. Hold On Now, Youngster is an album completely free of The Kinks. Completely free of The Clash. Completely free of Weller or Morrissey or Gallagher or f***ing Suggs.

No, this is a band who have very foreign influences: Pavement, Deerhoof, Architecture In Helsinki. And they take all of those influences, remove any concept of subtlety those bands may have had, and plug up the gaps with glockenspiels played directly into the microphone. It works perfectly." Drownedinsound

http://www.myspace.com/victoriaandjacob

Victoria and Jacob play a mix of electronica, folk and indie. Their conception began whilst studying electronic music at University. Jacob conducts a D.J aesthetic with synthetic beats, glitches and synthesiser and Victoria lays down melancholic vocal lines that jump and drift around with delay and pitch shift effects.

Their first EP, ‘Super Computer’, was self-released in August 2008 and received airplay on Tom Robinson’s BBC 6music show. This was shortly followed by a UK tour at the beginning of 2009. Their debut single ‘With No Certainty’ is due for release on 7” vinyl in January 2010 by Voga Parochia. Tonight's gig is the launch.

http://www.myspace.com/dagfordag

"Dag for Dag are new Saddle Creek signings, Sarah and Jacob Snavely, originally from Missoula; later, Wisconsin, Honolulu, London; most recently, Stockholm. Youve got to wonder whether its a very literal homesickness that keeps bringing them back (figuratively) to the safe haven that is their early record collection, rather than any particular place. This is some of the most straightforwardly catchy indie guitar rock to grace my CD-player in a while, but (if its possible) its also the most solidly early-80s, and that doesnt just mean: lots of Chorus on the guitars.

Dag for Dag combine early-Cure, Violent Femmes, Cramps, and (perhaps) early Low (an inevitable effect of forlorn female vocals and minimal instrumentation). Jacobs got a hint of latent craziness in his voice like Robert Smith / Gordon Gano / Lux Interior, the fuzz-guitar thrums fat and urgent..." Drownedinsound.com

http://www.myspace.com/christt

Mr. TT makes a very welcome return. One of the very first acts we put on, way back when, he's been a long time friend and musical inspiration.

http://www.myspace.com/lesacvspip

Lyrical genius and warped electronica from the minor genius' responsible for Thou Shalt Always Kill.

http://www.myspace.com/audiobullys

House-hooligans responsible for pills and beer bass swagger anthems like The Lee Hazelwood sampling Shoot You Down.

http://www.myspace.com/thejoyformidable

Green Mind's favourite MBV tinted noiseniks make a welcome return to the Portland. They must love it here, because this is their 3rd show and they've definitely outgrown The Portland, having sold it out everytime they've played!

http://www.myspace.com/timesnewviking

"So much for cleaning up their sound for Matador. Times New Viking have become better songwriters, but thankfully don't change much of anything from their humble home-recorded beginnings. An effusive press release for Rip It Off draws a line from the Sex Pistols through Slanted and Enchanted and Alien Lanes to end at these guys and girls, and while those claims are a bit too bold to take at face value, they make a certain kind of sense: The Pistols ended up holding the banner for all the bands who realized they could do it themselves, and the songs written by Pavement and especially Guided By Voices swelled with the pride that their basement tapes could stand ably next to their heroes' carefully constructed classics.

That DIY spirit is key to Times New Viking, but there's a different sort of reclamation going on here. Yes, the instruments sound like off-brand department store toys, the speaker cones are blown-out, and the recording equipment is rudimentary. They're noisy enough to put off even fans of the 90s "lo-fi" generation. But every chord, every note, every yelped vocal, every grizzled and treble-tearing tone is one of sheer exuberance-- they may act aloof, but TNV get off on the privilege of just making a sound.

In a time when technology makes professional-sounding recordings accessible to even the smallest bands, that exuberance is refreshing and becoming rarer." Pitchfork.com

http://www.myspace.com/newyoungponyclub

http://www.myspace.com/eaststrikewestband

"It's rare that a band releases a debut full-length of such majesty it almost leaves you breathless. Stunning." [8/10]
- Rocksound Magazine

"Eaststrikewest could well be one of the best bands in Britain you've never heard of."
- Big Cheese Magazine

http://www.myspace.com/kingcreosote

"The output of Fife-based musical community, the Fence Collective, has long been a treasure trove for fans of folk-slanted pop. Kenny Anderson, one of the scene's figureheads, is unlikely to boost its commercial fortunes with this relentlessly downbeat new album but there's no slip in standards, either in the songs' quality or in Anderson's deft lyrical touch. "Curtain Craft" is a lovely plea for privacy as a relationship goes sour, "Coast On By" a brilliantly damaged two fingers to life's difficulties. There's more studio trickery than usual here, but the electronic feints are pressed into the service of some typically" The Guardian

http://www.myspace.com/doesitoffendyou

"...equal parts Ghost Frequency horror, Daft Punk militancy and Interzone intensity..." NME

http://www.myspace.com/joshuaradin

Radin's songs have been featured on Scrubs, Brothers and Sisters, Grey's Anatomy, American Idol, One Tree Hill and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. His song "Star Mile" was on The Last Kiss movie soundtrack, as well as "What If You", which was featured on soundtrack of the movie Catch and Release.

http://www.myspace.com/crystalantlers

"There aren't many bands I've listened to more than Crystal Antlers this year, but I still don't think there's an optimum way to hear them yet. If the buzz sends you to MySpace, you'll get their impact but not their dynamics. Catch one of their cramped live shows and you'll get their in-it-to-win-it intensity but not their expansiveness. Hear their self-released EP, and you're getting closer-- besides existing at the cross-section of so many styles, the disc finds the band at a more important nexus of potential and realization. In person, Crystal Antlers look like outcasts from six different bands, and at various points on this record, they sound like it, too: Merging psych, garage, lo-fi, prog, and countless other influences, the group easily maintains consistency despite a complete inability to be pinned to any specific movement or trend (so long as you're not counting the increasingly frustrating trend of unimaginative bandnames)." Pitchfork.com

http://www.myspace.com/65propaganda

"The sheer intensity of the band's musical and technical prowess is projected for the world to revel in, cascading every part of their electronic orchestra around your ears and constructing immense soundscapes that defy standards or chart-humping ideals. It's impossible not to be buried under the crushing guitars and precise drumming that hold every part of your being and twist your insides until suffocation is imminent." Drownedinsound.com