LEG GUITAR HAS MOVED TO TUMBLR!

Leg Guitar can now be found on Tumblr, here.

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LEG GUITAR v TUCKSHOP: Round 43 + Mixtape 2

LEG GUITAR v TUCKSHOP

The new LEG GUITAR v TUCKSHOP mixtape is out now and it’s mind-blowingly spectacular, as are this week’s trio of top tunes, featuring Ku Klux Glam, Dino Walrus and The Shutes. Enjoy x

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The Shutes – ‘She Said’

The Shutes

An awesome free download from our new favourite band, taken from their forthcoming Echo of Love EP.

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Joe Innes & The Cavalcade release debut album

Joe Innes & The Cavalcade

London folk troubadour, Leg Guitar fave and comic book fanatic Joe Innes has just released a new album with his band The Cavalcade, their first as a group in fact. Download below.

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LEG GUITAR v TUCKSHOP

LEG GUITAR v TUCKSHOP

Chocolate, gooey loveliness, this week’s LEG GUITAR v TUCKSHOP featuring The Shutes, Swim Deep and Japandroids

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Swim Deep – ‘King City’

Swim Deep

Earnest, heart-wrenching indie from this Birmingham trio, reminiscent of early Bloc Party before they went, you know, kinda rubbish.  Singer Austin does seem a little obsessed with Warpaint bassist Jenny Lee Lindberg however (‘F*ck your romance/I wanna pretend Jenny Lee Lindberg is my girlfriend’).  Watch out Jenny.

Swim Deep - King City

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Miike Snow – ‘Paddling Out’ (live @ Maida vale)

Check out this cracking live version of current single Paddling Out by slick, Swedish pop monsters Miike Snow, recorded at the BBC’s Maida Vale studios in London. Paddling Out is taken from new album Happy to You, out now.

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LEG GUITAR v TUCKSHOP

LEG GUITAR v TUCKSHOP

Taking drugs to make music to take drugs to, this week’s LEG GUITAR v TUCKSHOP featuring Zammuto, Two Wings and Sleep Party People

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The Shutes – ‘Echo of Love’

Is this the best (only) band to emerge from the lush, green pastures of the Isle of Wight since The Bees?  On the basis of Echo of Love, the title track of their new EP out April 2nd on Cross Keys Recordings, the answer is a resounding yes.  Delicate, note-bending, pastoral guitar-pop.

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Sleep Party People – ‘Chin’

Sleep Party People

The first single to be taken from We Were Drifting on a Sad Song, the new album from these Danish ‘dream-gazers’ out April 9th on Blood and Biscuits.

Sleep Party People - Chin

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