New Bands

New band: The Lovedays

Meet your new favourite summertime band – The Lovedays. The Lovedays are fronted by multi-instrumentalist Ben Jones. What Ryan Adams is to Americana Jones is the Kent equivalent. Equally as prolific and taking a bit of his voice to mix in with his estuary tones, The Lovedays are his labour […]

New band: Tommy Atkins

No, not the Billy Childish-influenced DJ at The Acid Gallery (that's Tommy 'Gun' Atkins), instead this is new mod revivalists Tommy Atkins. Formed early last year in London by Spencer Taylor, they blend Hammond organ with elements of soul, punk, and power-pop. The four-piece have not hung about and already have […]

Darron Connett band & free album

That stylish man-about-town you keep seeing around London is one Darron J Connett. Over the past couple of years his live show has been much in-demand. Now things have developed fast for him over the past few months. A new band line-up has seen him trading as Connett, and his […]

New band: The Ladders

Danny Connors is the definitive changingman.  The musical chameleon is a difficult man to keep pace with. Bought up in Newport and Northampton, he moved to Liverpool then London in search of musical fame and fortune, then made music in The On Offs and as a solo artist whilst back in […]

New band: Les Bof!

"Fancy a good old Dutronic garagie yeye sound?" enquire new band Les Bof!. Well if you do these Edinburgh-based men are the ones to provide it. Frenchman in exile Laurent sings in his native language a succession of garage, beat and yéyé songs, both covers and some exquisite originals. The […]

New band: The Attention!

Modculture has been searching for another wild blues band for a while and we think we have found a great one: The Attention! The Vienna-based five-piece remind us a lot of Sweden's The Vanjas, and having seem that lot live in the flesh this is great news for us all. You […]

New artist: Laura Izibor

The UK is seemingly over-flowing with soulful female singers at the moment. Even so, there's something a little bit different and special about Laura Izibor. For starters she's not British, but Irish. The 21-year-old Dubliner describes herself as 'old-school soul', writing and producing her music as well as adding her […]

New band: The Caper Story

Here's a brand new band who we think you should be very excited about: The Caper Story. Our excitement levels are high because it contains a multinational line-up of musicians cultivated from London's mod/60s scene. The two Swedes, two Italians and a German are simply friends who have decided to […]