SXSW 2010 Daily blog
March 16, 2010 by Sam
Filed under DirtyBoots LIVE, Featured, New Music
So just landed and getting set for what most definitely will be the best SXSW so far for DirtyBoots, We are back at the Wave bar but this time we have 3 special parties planned with fantastic acts lined up and some great surprises in store. Over the next week or so I will be [...]
Band of the Day – Psychologist
Band of the Day – Psychologist Once again we are in the situation of not knowing a huge amount about this band at the moment but from what we can tell it is Iain Woods who is the creative force behind the fantastically dark and brooding sounds of Psychologist. Iain describes his music as ‘Pop’s [...]
Band of the Day – Free Energy
Free Energy With chunky Stones’ riffs, Van Halan guitar lines, a love of Tom Petty, Marc Bolan and even Thin Lizzy! Philadelphians Free Energy certainly know their music and with Killer tracks like Free Energy and Dream City you can totally see why James Murphy has signed them to DFA as his first big guitar [...]
Must Have Albums for January 2010
New year, new website and now time to introduce a new monthly feature where we list our album picks for the forthcoming month. January 2010 is packed with some killer releases, some that we have already been lucky enough to hear and some that we are looking forward to with fevered anticipation. Midlake ‘The Courage [...]
Our Top Tips for 2010
We thought we would give you our top tipped acts for 2010. We’d like to stress that this list is in no particular order but simply includes those which have caught our eye and those we feel will make a impact on your world this year. Delphic We have already written about Delphic in the [...]
BBC Sound of 2010 – Ellie Goulding
Of all the acts on this year’s BBC soundpoll it is Ellie Goulding who we see crossing over to the masses. We know that 2009 has been inundated with solo female artists and it almost feels as though there may be no more room for another in 2010 but Ellie’s work with Starsmith has a [...]
Dirty Boots: Top 10 Albums of 2009
Here we have it… the Dirty Boots Top 10 Albums of 2009 – see below as the countdown from 10 to 1 is revealed! 10. Richard Hawley – Truelove’s Gutter Sheffield’s answer to Scott Walker records yet another classic album of gorgeous personal songs. If you have heard any of his previous albums you will [...]
Our Best Albums of 2009 – The Countdown begins now…
What a year it has been for all of us at Dirty Boots?! Here are our best albums of 2009 for you all to see. Firstly, we would like to say that there are probably a few that we have missed out or things that you think should be listed that are not. This may [...]
The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night – New 12″ and LP in 2010
The Besnard Lakes, the Montreal collective fronted by husband-and-wife duo Olga Goreas and Jace Lasek, has returned, crafting a majestic, sprawling vision of guitar bombast and captivating pop experiments. On March 8th of 2010, Jagjaguwar will release The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night, a twisting chronicle of spies, double agents, novelists and aspiring rock [...]
BBC Sound of 2010 – Delphic
Manchester’s Delphic came on the scene well over a year ago getting people excited with their euphoric electronica merged with jangeling indie guitars. Their pulsing hypnotic songs with a huge nod to New order, Kraftwerk, Radiohead and even Neil Tennant still manage to sound relevant and fresh in 2010. They do not disappoint, especially with [...]