The double A side single was released on the 9th April and will be released through their own label. It is a bombastic assault of pure epic sounding proportions, that you simply couldn’t ignore. Have a listen for yourself right here…

Having supported the likes of Kasabian, The Charlatans and Shed Seven along with playing their own headline shows and will be going out on the road for further shows and festival performances this year.

The band are currently in the studio working on their debut album which will be released later this year. Modern Faces are geared up to resurrect good old fashioned British Rock ‘n’ Roll, so get ready for them.

Full tour dates as below

April:

Thur 12th London Camden, The Wheelbarrow

Fri 13th Leeds Milo

Sat 14th Newcastle The Cluny

Fri 20th Manchester Moho

Sat 21st Liverpool Erics

Fri 27th Derby The Vic

Sat 28th Leicester Sumo

May:

Sat 12th London Queen Of Hoxton

June:

Fri 8th –  London Koko

They asked their favourite passionate proponents of new music to nominate their top up and coming bands, with the criteria that they must be unsigned and have never recorded in a professional studio. They will be showcasing these bands at a series of live events between March and June at the Urban Bar in Whitechapel. The top act from each night will play together at a final in July, with the overall winner being offered free mixing and mastering at Cafe Music Studios, free PR from CogDiss and a slot at Supernormal Festival in August.

The competition will be judged by CogDiss, Cafe Music and Supernormal alongside The Blue Walrus, Chaos Theory, A Negative Narrative, Sourmash (That’s me that is!), The Whiteboard Project, and Echoes & Dust, who have all nominated bands. Throughout the competition they will be championing their choices and pointing towards where you can find out more, giving you the opportunity to discover their favourite up and coming artists.

To see all 16 nominations, please click here. Details of the events will be posted here over the next week or so.

Now I’m very excited about being involved in this great project and feel very privileged to have been asked. It took me no time at all to decide on my nominations as they are two acts I absolutely admire and hope to see do well. First up is no stranger to Sourmash Music, as she featured on the very first mixtape with her wonderful track, I’ll Never Tell. Charlotte Eriksson (a.k.a. The Glass Child) was undoubtedly going to be one of my choices, because I think she is incredible and here’s why….

Then my next nomination is London based dreamy 60s pop music makers, Itchy Teeth. I remember seeing this band over a year ago and was rather taken back by their nostalgic and classic take on catchy guitar driven pop tones. If you want to hear what I’m talking about, check this out…

So head over to the official site - http://symbiosiscompetition.com/ and we all hope you can make it to one of the shows!!

Check that line up out!

So from 8pm you will have the wonderful sounds of these 3 brilliant up and coming bands…..

Savage Nomads

IC1′s

Havera

What else would you be doing on a Sunday night that could be more exciting? So I say again, that’s Sunday 5th February at Proud Galleries in Camden from 8pm – 1am and did I mention it is absolutely FREE to get in! We’ll shall see you there then.

Tango In The Attic

It was a while from their debut release, but after taking time to work on other projects, the band regrouped in October 2011 and started work on their as yet untitled second album. The band also head out to the US for a small tour and then back to the UK from May for relentless gigging alongside a single release in March, album out in April and then next single out in May.

As a little taster as to what to expect on their second outing, Tango In The Attic have done a live video session for brand new track, Swimming Pool. It’s a blissful, fuzzy, shoegaze affair of a new addition to the bands already flourishing catalogue.

Swimming Pool by Tango In The Attic

For more info on the band, head over to the Tango In The Attic Facebook Page

Bronto is a welcome return and a small taster of what to expect on their second album, Build, which is out on the 5th March through Medical. To coincide with the album release, the band head out on the following UK dates.

Feb 4th Aldershot West End Centre
Feb 6th Southampton Joiners - Tickets
Feb 7th Wakefield Escobar
Feb 8th Manchester Alter Ego - Tickets
Feb 10th Southend Chinnerys - Tickets

** Ticket links for Wakefield and Aldershot will be on facebook soon**

The band are also playing upstairs at The Gargage in London on the album release date of the 5th of March.  (Tickets). So I suppose now I should show you the video for Bronto, because that’s why your here isn’t it? If it isn’t then I don’t know what to tell you, but you should check out this video anyway, because this band are friggin awesome! Here you go….

To download Bronto, you can still head over to their bandcamp page and download it there.

Neon Asylum, a.k.a. Jaysunn Tyler, is setting out on the road in April and will be going to the following venues  on these dates:

April 11th – The Hope, Brighton

April 12th – B2, Norwich

April 18th – Yardbird, Birmingham

April 19th –  Electricity Showrooms, London w/Midi Midi’s

For more info on these shows, click on the links or head over to http://myspace.com/neonasylum

Here’s a little taster of what you can expect, enjoy!

Secret Rivals

The 4 piece consist of Clouds on Synth & Vocals, Jamie Corcoran on Guitar & Vocals, Reece Chapman on Drums and Andrew Murton on Bass. Already signed last year to Kittiwake Records in London who released their single, ‘Tonight Matthew’ to some great praise from the likes of Tom Robinson and Rob Da Bank. With this under their belt, they released mini-album ‘Make Do And Mend’ on indie label, Haslegs Records, in September last year.

Now it’s 2012 and the band are back on a new label and with a euphonic new single called ‘Once More With Heart’, which is out on the 16th Januar on It’s All Happening! Records.

There are moments of charm and damn good leg-slapping joy, when Secret Rivals let rip. Energy and compulsion entwined with layer upon layer of synths and choppy guitar’s. The band are infectious and will have you on your feet, shaking those hips and dancing till that indie dancefloor can take no more.

They have a video made for Once More With Heart, which is right here for you fine people….

Plus, an excellent remix from Alphabet Backward which is available as a free download! How lovely is that! Download it now from here….

Down Down Down – Charlie Simpson

Everybody’s On The Run – Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
Standing On The Edge Of The Noise – Beady Eye
If I Had A Gun – Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
Finale – Funeral Party
A Stutter And A Start – Spring Offensive
Front Row Seats To The End Of The World – Funeral For A Friend
Animals – Kids In Glass Houses
I’ll Never Tell – The Glass Child

Renegade 86′ – Letlive
Whole Picture – Stylusboy
The Ballad Of Mona Lisa – Panic! At The Disco
Do You Ever? – The Birthday Suit
Traktor – Wretch32 feat. L
Inhaler – Miles Kane
Through The Clover – Stonefield
Broken Foundation – Funeral For A Friend
Blue Jeans – Lana Del Rey
St. Peter (Yardley Mix) – Gaolers Daughter
Headrush – Hannah Trigwell

Casino Columbus – Letlive
Burn – The Deadsets
Video Games – Lana Del Rey
Indie Electro Pop – Roxanne De Bastion
I Still Believe – Frank Turner
Otis – Jay-Z & Kanye West
Set Fire To The Rain – Adele
We Are Made Of Evil Things – The Microdance
Bite My Tongue – You Me At Six feat. Oli Sykes

The King And All Of His Men – Wolfgang
Young Hollywood – Sunny Estate
PACEMAKER – Breton
Pumped Up Kicks – Foster The People
By Your Hand – Los Campesinos!
Thorns – Charlie Simpson
Limit To Your Love – James Blake
Going Through Hell – The Streets
What The Water Gave Me – Florence & The Machine
Movements – Sunny Estate

Someone Like You – Adele
Odd Socks Is The Secret Recipe – Danny Mahon
Kingcrawler – Miles Kane
Rhythm Review – The Computers

Unorthodox – Wretch32 feat. Example
Operation – Yuck
Higher and Higher – The Blackout
You Need Me, I Don’t Need You – Ed Sheeran feat. Wretch32 and Devlin
Hello Blue – Exile Parade
Switchblade Smiles – Kasabian
Get A Life – Limp Bizkit
Glory Hallelujah – Frank Turner
Cat’s Eyes – Cat’s Eyes

We The People – The Chakras
Four Walls – Danny Mahon
Shake It Out – Florence & The Machine
Gold Cobra – Limp Bizkit
Stepping Up – Nigel Thomas
Death of The Journalist – Scroobius Pip
Sophia – Laura Marling

Go Betweens – Mazes
sol. – Mausi
The Greeks – IS TROPICAL
Kittens Become Cats – RKC

Girl, I Love You – Mono Stereo
Cockiness (Love It) – Rihanna
Mathemagician – Rosa Valle
Lego House – Ed Sheeran
Pain Pain Never Again – Glasvegas
Domino – Jessie J

Initials MM – The Narrows
The Beagle – The Witch And The Robot
Beth/Rest – Bon Iver
Curtain Call – Exit Ten
Who You Are – Jessie J
Nothing To Lose – Mike Hough
Flying Overseas – Theophilus London

LOVE – Chapter 24
I’ll Take Care Of You – Gil Scott Heron & Jamie XX
Stilyagi – Puro Instinct feat. Ariel Pink
Codex – Radiohead
The Sad Thing – The Foxes

Still Life – The Horrors
Blood In My Head – The Lowriders
Everywhere Nowhere (Mr Kitty Remix) – Neon Asylum
Animal Style – Plastic Youth
We Found Love – Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris
Let Em’ Come – Scroobius Pip feat. Sage Francis & P.O.S.
Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair – Arctic Monkeys
Iron Wall – Blind Atlas
All The Way – Michaela Wright
Set Me Free – The Sand Band

Together We Are Explosions – The Witch And The Robot
My Pale Garden – Acid Glasses
Changed The Way You Kiss Me – Example
Don’t Spit At Her Face – Stricken City
New-Ish – Azekel
Think & Feel – Dananananakroyd
Velociraptor – Kasabian
Promises – Nero
Read All About It – Professor Green feat. Emeli Sande

Peter Cornish-Barlow - a.k.a. Mr Sourmash Music and Music Nerd

Tis the season to be jolly, tra la la la la, la la la la. That’s enough la’s I think. Hello everyone, I just wanted to take this post to wish all my readers and subscribers a very Merry Christmas. It’s the time of the season, as The Zombies once sang, to celebrate with family and friends and give to others. Enjoy and be merry and don’t forget to watch Muppet’s Christmas Carol at some point, its hand down the best Christmas movie ever!

Without this next lot of people, this blog wouldn’t be possible. Also with a special video from singer/songwriter, Stylusboy.

Enjoy,

Pete x

Alan McGee - Creation Records Founder

 “Merry Xmas to Peter and all the Sourmash crew. Love is the law always xoxo”

http://alanmcgee.com

Adam Ficek - RKC/Babyshambles/ London Guns/DJ

 To the readers of Sourmash.

‘Have an elephantine christmas and a whalelike new year, Christmas is all about shiny things, computers and consuming – so ignore your family, put your toe into your Playstation and turn off the real world’

Adam Ficek

http://www.adamficek.com/

The Narrows - Twisted Mancunian Electro Wizards

Dear Pete and the readers of Sourmash,

So it’s now 3.32am and I have been sat here for what feels like 15 years trying to figure out exactly what to write for this Christmas message. I assume this is what the Queen must feel like every year, except she probably doesn’t have a bottle of Heineken in one hand and a shoddily made cigarette in the other. Or maybe she does. Who knows what goes on inside the Palace? We don’t. And we don’t particularly care to be honest. The only thing we know for definite is that Prince Harry is more than likely locked away in a small Opium den under the kitchens with 3 call girls, a tommy gun and a Phil Collins CD.

So now it’s 3.56am and all I’ve done is speculate on the possible whereabouts of James Hewitt’s son. Back to my original question: what could we write to you, Pete, and you – the fabulous readers of the Sourmash blog? Should we mention the investment bankers who’ve ruined people’s lives? The government who are ignoring the problem of getting people in to work and who are instead waging war on the people below the poverty line who they helped to put there last time they were in power? The US and their continual thirst for war? The fact that all popular music seems to now be influenced by David Fucking Guetta?

No. We’re not going to mention any of that. Not us.

What we want to say is a deep and heartfelt thank you to Pete and to you for reading his wonderful words and listening to our music. Since Pete featured the video exclusive of our first single Initials MM back in April, we have gone on to play T in The Park, we’ve had airplay on 6Music, XFM, Amazing Radio and Absolute Radio, been to London to be interviewed by Tom Robinson and have added the likes of Zane Lowe, John Kennedy and Mike Joyce as fans. Next year we’ll be releasing our debut album, playing our second London gig and we’ve just been asked to play the HMV Next Big Thing event, which is unbelievable. Without people like Pete championing our music and without the readers of his blog who have supported and downloaded our work, none of these fantastic things would have been possible.

So thank you from the bottom of our weird, cold, dark hearts. Next year is going to be a big one. We would love you join us.

Lots of love,

The Narrows.

http://thenarrows.bandcamp.com/

Roxanne de Bastion - Mesmerising German Songstress

Here’s wishing all the readers of Sourmash,

A very Happy Holiday Bash!

A rather busy year we’ve had,

our schedules have been slightly mad!

Let’s enjoy a deserved break,

with lots of cookies, wine and cake!

With family, friends and music near,

Have a good slide into the New Year! (that’s how we say it in Germany!)

Dear Pete, thanks for all your support – we all love Sourmash!

Here’s wishing you and everybody reading this a Happy Holiday – 2012 will be a great one, I can feel it!

http://roxanne.everycity.co.uk/

Mike Hough - RnB Rising Star and MOBO Nominee

‘Hey Guys, Mike Hough here! Just wanna wish everyone a very Merry Christmas & a happy and very productive new year! I hope you have a great time, eat lots, get fat, spend the new year contemplating going to the gym, and never do, because that’s what I do. Haha. Massive shout out to Pete and his amazing blog too. Many thanks to those who have shown me love and support this year and bring on 2012! MH x’

http://www.mikehough.co.uk/

XO Man - Very talented 'giant' rapper

Santa’s a PIMP…FACT!!!!!

and I ain’t afraid to say it.

Come on folks… Stockings, hoe hoe hoes, giving girls gifts for FREE and shit while all the man’dem ‘happen’ to be on the bloodclart naughty list KMT

All I’m saying is SANTA… I’m on to you. So from one O G, Pimp, playa, gansta to another… The only chimney sliding that’s gonna be happening is me down your hoes and they better swallow my coal.

P.s If your planning on parking on MY roof get a ticket or I’m clamping that shit.

GoodNite GoodBless & SuckBreast

XOMan

Sent from the future

http://www.xomanmusic.com

Zane Lowe - Radio 1 DJ and New Music Guru

“Merry Christmas to Peter and all at Sourmash. Here’s to a great new year full of great new music.”

http://www.zanelowe.com/

Hannah Trigwell - Awe inspiring Singer/Songwriter

‘To the lovely Sourmashmusic readers and the brilliant founder Pete!

Wishing you all a very merry Christmas and an amazing new year.

Hope 2012 is a great year for everyone!

Lots of love,

Hannah Trigwell x ‘

http://hannahtrigwell.co.uk 

Mr Gee - Poet & Radio Presenter

“I wish everybody happy smiles & happy sighs & we’ll see who took the mistletoe a bit too far…. in 9 months time!

regards gee”

http://soundcloud.com/mr-gee-poet

Spring Offensive - The Princes of Oxford

“It’s Christmas, which as we all know is just another day of the year. Be it commercial, sentimental or theological, there is a lot of hype to avoid. Forget all that. It will only leave you feeling curiously empty. Christmas should be whatever you make of it. Surround yourself with people you love, forget about money, forget about next year. That can take care of itself some other time. For now, eat all the food and stay warm – no one should expect anything more of you. And for God’s sake be nice to each other for once yeah?” 

 http://www.springoffensive.co.uk/

Stylusboy - Songsmith

 “Happy Christmas everyone! I hope you have a lovely time and eat too much delicious food! Enjoy time with people you love and give and receive some great presents. I hope 2012 is an exciting year full of excitement and hope!”

And now a special video of Stylusboy’s ‘Silent Night’

It’s the bands second single and it’s a rabble rousing, anthemic treat that will have you singing and jumping to your hearts content. The single is available from Monday the 19th December and is availiable from iTunes or Amazon as a download single only. Have a listen to ‘Karma…’ if you like, it’s right here….

Remember ALL proceeds go to the homelessness charity, Shelter, who do great work helping find people homes and giving support where its needed. So that is Monday the 19th December, tell the world and get downloading on Monday.