I Swim With Sharks ‘Just Be Good’

In an overcrowded scene where getting noticed is everything, Yorkshire upstarts I Swim With Sharks have delivered a powerful statement of intent with effortlessly catchy new single ‘Just be Good’. Replete with an infectious pop-nous yet retaining a developed indie sensibility which will please the most hardened muso, the fast-rising trio are sure to add many new fans to their already burgeoning fanbase with ‘Just be Good’. And you can listen to the single exclusively here!

Just Be Good from I Swim With Sharks on Vimeo.

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Muso’s Guide Singles Club: 10 October 2011

by Steve McGillivray

I bought a tape this week. Yes, a tape. Also known as a cassette. They were around when I was younger you know. Apparently some bands release their singles on tape nowadays. It seems almost hip to do this and there are even entire labels that only issue releases on tape. I’m not sure if any of this weeks singles are coming out on tape, but just in case they are you best familiarise yourself with them in case something takes your fancy. … Continue Reading

Muso’s Guide Singles Club: 12 September 2011

by Michael Waters

The festival season is over. Basically. No more festivals. Clash-finder sheets and snuck-in arena beers are being slowly replaced with grimy puddles to drag your shoelaces through and an acute drop in Vitamin D to make you slowly spiral into depression, alone, in your stupid house that isn’t even a tent. It’s time to beat the Seasonal Affective Blues in the way that every 2010s net-savvy press-keen music lover does, week after week. Buy CD singles. … Continue Reading

Muso’s Guide Singles Club: 29 August 2011

by Chenaii Madhoo

August, traditionally as arid as a sub-Saharan desert among the music folk of the UK recording industry has interestingly spewed out a few gems on release today; and it is by adopting the gung ho spirit of the intrepid explorer, that I decided to check out the following tunes. The artistes and bands are as varied, and miles apart as the distance between East and West, in style, content and delivery -which is a positive indication that the UK –music-wise at least- is still at the vanguard in the pursuit of all things eclectic, and sometimes unusual. So, plug in, tune in and enjoy the ride. … Continue Reading

Muso’s Guide Singles Club: 22 August 2011

by Steve McGillivray

It can’t be a new week already? Are the weekends getting shorter? To take your mind from the disappointment of another weekend gone you should probably go and buy a single to cheer yourself up. Now, buying a single is not an easy thing to do these days. There’s no Top of the Pops to make your mind up for you, so why not have a look over this half dozen singles which are coming out this week and see if anything takes your fancy. It’ll make that week at work or study seem that bit rosier I promise you. … Continue Reading

Singles of the Week: 15th August 2011

by Paul Brown

Given the events of the past week, it’d be easy to be a bit flippant and infuse this weeks singles column with some kind of glib riot theme, make some rubbish Kaiser Chiefs joke, or even drop in some shit crack about Gazza and a fishing rod (we’ve all got one of those wankers in our Facebook feeds, right?) However, that’d be pretty disrespectful to those who lost businesses, homes, hope, and in the case of one horrible incident, lives, so it’s probably best we just focus our attentions on the power of music to unite us, to lift us, and infuriate us. After all, few things offer a better escape than a good single. Onwards, then. … Continue Reading

Singles of the Week: 8th August 2011

This weeks marks two momentous milestones. Firstly, the world’s largest arts festival, the Edinburgh Fringe, gets into full swing with it’s first full week of events. Probably more earth shattering though is we at Muso’s Guide welcome our new Singles Editor, Paul Brown (and wave adieu to departing Editor Russell Warfield). I’d imagine most of you don’t care about either, so without further ado it’s onto this weeks singles. … Continue Reading

Singles of the Week: 1st August 2011

Another week, another (slightly belated) family bucket of single release sextuplets. Tuck in!

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Singles of the Week: 18th July 2011

Nicola Roberts
Beat Of My Drum

Nicola Roberts may not be an ex-X Factor judge, drunk, Irish or, er, Kimberly, but, with ‘Beat Of My Drum’, she’s easily made The Best Song By A Member Of Girls Aloud Outside Of Girls Aloud. This Diplo-produced earworm originally emerged digitally a few weeks ago but, for some reason, it’s only getting a physical release now. So while that’s unlikely to send the song back up the charts where it belongs, it’s still the best thing released this week. Her album, Cinderella’s Eyes, is coming at the end of September but, for now, just enjoy the sight of Nicola dancing on top of a stack of speakers in a furry jumper dress.
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Singles of the Week: 11th July 2011

This has been a week of interesting events and lessons learned. Yesterday, for the first time in my life I bought, and read in its entirety, the News Of The World; I wondered if I’d been missing out a crucial part of my Sundays all this time, but I found it a horrible self-congratulatory sensationalist rag, lucky, otherwise I’d've been kicking myself for such a poorly timed introduction. So we’ve lost a newspaper, and gained an unlikely national hero in the form of Hugh Grant. Who’d have thought it? HG for PM, etc. Other related news from this week: Ed Miliband made an actual speech, unscrupulous ex-NoW hack Paul McMullan has become quite staggeringly attractive, and a legacy of bribery and corruption at all levels in the press, police and government is being shown to exist on an unprecedented scale. To paraphrase Simon Amstell, I don’t know about you, but this seems like a bloody good time to read some silly things about a release format that 70% of the population are totally oblivious of. Here are the singles!
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