Oh I can't allow a new music topic's first page go by un-raped by me, lol.
So yes, let's recommend...
Let's start with a band from Birmingham who people should really look out for, because I guarantee they'll be getting rather big within the next 12 months, and thats a band called The Twang. They're being compared to the likes of Oasis & the Happy Mondays, and are being heralded as the return of 'baggy' music (stuff like the Happy Mondays, Stereo MCs etc). Their recent single 'Wide Awake' was the nearest the country has come to churning out anything like the classic britpop of the mid to late '90s, and they've certainly got the cocky attitude that seemed a staple for the scene too. Watch out for these boys, they'll be big soon enough.
While i'm on a roll, there's some new Arctic Monkeys stuff floating about. I say 'floating', new single 'Brianstorm' (yes its Brian, not Brain) is more of an audible ramming than a float. Sounding darker & heavier than the first album's material, the Monkeys are back, with 2nd album 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' due in a couple of weeks too. For an idea of where their music's going, 'View From the Afternoon' off the first album was the last track to be written, and noticably rawer, and the new album is said to be going further down that road. Obviously this album'll be a big hit, but by the sounds of it, it'll be a decent album too, and not a Razorlight-esque U2-a-thon of a follow-up.
