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They’re the Brooklyn surf-poppers who are riding the crest of a wave, and are set to have their profile rise even higher when their debut EP arrives in a month. They are Fast Years, and what’s more, aside from their [...]

A little while back we were contacted by Derek from L.A. Band Decoded telling us about a series of charity fundraising gigs he was organising. We loved the idea so much, and it’s supporting some fantastic causes, that we caught [...]

North Wales is not renowned for producing musical gems but Deeside’s Silver/Back/Club may be about to buck that trend. Their eponymous début EP is three tracks of muscular, brooding indie rock influenced by the likes of Bloc Party and Editors. [...]

Australian instrumental rock band Dumbsaint have recently released their debut album. It is full of intriguing, intelligent music so we sent our man down under, Gilbert Potts, to talk to bass player James and find out a bit more about [...]

York’s Young Believers make intricate, introspective and beautiful folk tinged indie; the sort of thing that is the perfect soundtrack to staring out of the window on a rainy May morning, wondering where the spring went. We had a chat [...]

In the coming months, we are going to be introducing more articles about people like Lachlan Dale, head honcho of Australia’s Art As Catharsis Records. We want to explore what it’s like to be someone who is part of the [...]

In the wake of the release of Jarek‘s second album, the wonderful ‘Tree Of The Seas’, Gilbert Potts spoke to their lead man Jared about the creative processes involved in making the record. (((o))): Leafless trees are the predominant feature [...]

We get hundreds of emails from bands asking for us to listen to their music; being good like that we try and listen to everything and sometimes it’s bad, sometimes it’s good and just sometimes it makes you stop what [...]

  ‘Big Music’ is often used as a derogatory term, used to describe bands who write the sort of songs destined for stadia that have all been done before and mostly done better. In the case of Irish act The [...]

With the imminent launch of their new album ‘Fog Electric’ Edinburgh’s North Atlantic Oscillation are going to be making waves (sorry!) very soon. It is a beautifully sumptuous affair, full of dark melodies and moments of true loveliness. Ahead of [...]

Here at Echoes and Dust, we’re big fans of inventiveness in music. We also like Maps and Atlases quite a bit. So, when we were offered the chance to interview them ahead of the release of their rather special second [...]

Every now and again a band comes along that are so distinctive, so far outside the monotonous paradigm of modern musical ubiquity that you just have to sit up and take notice; Cold In Berlin are such a band. Ahead [...]

Spring sunshine, the smell of fresh cut grass, sitting drinking cider in pub gardens, waves gently lapping on the the beach; all of these things are what tatterattels sound like. We were so beguiled by their self-titled EP that came [...]

Saturday Sun’s debut Seagull EP is the perfect soundtrack for these bright spring days, blissfully blending folk with elements of post rock. Ahead of the EP’s release we tried to find out a bit more about the band. (((o))): How [...]

It is often said that it takes a thief to catch a thief so we applied that logic to musicians and sent Nick from Manchester’s Trojan Horse to talk to David from Sunderland’s Field Music, the results were most enlightening. [...]

The Twilight Sad have been touring their new album, ‘No One Can Ever Know’, in the States for the last month or so culminating in a stint at SXSW. Our man in the US, Jake Gillen, caught up with them [...]

When we got sent Last Harbour’s album, ‘Your Heart, It Carries The Sound’, a few weeks back it absolutely blew our socks off and we couldn’t believe that we’d not come across these guys before. It’s a beautifully melancholic record [...]

Dog Is Dead are a young Nottingham band on the up and up. Currently in the middle of their first UK headlining tour and with a new single imminent, we grabbed them and asked to give us the lowdown on [...]

‎ Chris Hughes recently caught up with JW (Guitar) and MB (Bass) from the brilliant psych boogie, kosmische Leeds based band Hookworms before they set off on their upcoming gigs and asked them a bunch of questions. There is a [...]

Sometimes I meet people who make me think that talent really is something you’re born with. Having been born with none myself, and developing none despite my best efforts, I’ve become comfortable in simply enjoying what others have to share. [...]

’The Narrow State’, the debut album from London six piece Rumour Cubes, is one of the most eagerly anticipated post rock releases of 2012. Ahead of their launch show on Saturday (18th Feb) we managed to pin down Adam (guitar [...]