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"Dream Poppers" The Perren Street Parade are from Devizes, England.

Perren Street Parade started life in London in 1986/1987 after an advert was placed in 'Melody Maker'. After eight months of songwriting & rehearsing their debut 6 track demo produced by Tony Cohen was complete. The demo unfortunately gaining no traction and it all came to nothing. The band split with no gigs and no releases.

The "dynamic duo" had lost touch but reconnected via social media and got back together to record the Perren Street Parade's long overdue debut album, "Selling The Family Silver" which was released to positive reviews in 2014.

The band was hard at work in 2015 on the follow up to "Selling The Family Silver." The new album called "The Looking Glass" is another slice of dream pop sounding supreme in both songwriting and production. Keep a look out for more on the horizon from the English duo in 2016.

'Let It All Out Then Let It Go' can be heard during the New Music Show airing daily at 8am/8pm EST (1am/1pm UK time).

Rodney Cromwell - 'Black Dog EP'
Saturday, November 7, 2015
London synthpop wonder Rodney Cromwell has announced details of his new 'Black Dog' EP, which he is releasing on the back of his debut LP 'Age of Anxiety', out earlier this year via Happy Robots Records. This new release introduces the modern electronic lover to some epic retro future synth music. Deeply influenced by artists such as OMD, New Order and Kraftwerk, he also utilises an arsenal of analogue synths, evoking the synthpop sound of the 70’s and 80’s, while also being forward looking and sounding fresh.

Rodney Cromwell's music has crossover appeal that equally embraces synthpop and indiepop. It's no wonder that Rodney Cromwell has gained solid support from the likes of Malcolm Holmes (OMD) and Rusty Egan (Visage, Rich Kids) for this release, not to mention BBC6 Music (Steve Lamacq, Gideon Coe), Soho Radio (Pete Paphides), Radio 3 in Spain, many North American college radio stations and elsewhere in the world. As expressed by Malcolm Holmes of OMD: "Sounds like liquid gold. Age of Anxiety has renewed my faith in the digital age of electro pop".

The ‘Black Dog’ EP features alternate cuts of album tracks, cranking the ‘analogue synth disco’ knob up to eleven. 'Black Dog (Version)' presents a merciless edit that turns the lengthy epic album track into the tightest radio friendly ode to depression you will ever hear. 'You Will Struggle (Glitchy Disco Mix)' was made for the dancefloor, landing in uncharted territory between Rex the Dog and ‘The Best of Divine’. Rod extends what the NME calls ‘offbeat wit’ to shine on ‘Barry Was An Arms Dealer (North Poindexter Mix)’, albeit with a dark reimagining that takes the track into death disco territory. Finally 'Black Dog (Extended Version)' offers a punchier reworking of the album cut, restoring the epic bass riffs and jaunty synths that has won the ‘Age of Anxiety’ closing track so much praise.

London Skafest - December 5th, 2015
Sunday, November 1, 2015
December 5th live from London, Ontario, Canada its Ska fest. Over the next month and leading up to the show Jamsterdam Radio will be featuring some of the Ska acts that will be performing at the show. Stay posted and pick up your tickets!

London Ska Fest is an annual festival that celebrates all forms of Ska music in the London, Ontario Region. Performing bands include:

Adam's Mind

The Nefidovs

The Cardboard Crowns

Coconut

Dirty Sol

Lou-Dog and Badrash

To stay updated follow London Ska Fest on Twitter.

Official Burnt Toast - 'Money As Debt'
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Official Burnt Toast are Adrian Lawrence, Patrick Luke and Abrar Hafiz. Based in East London the trio produce spoken word, hip hop and punk, described by Luke Hannam (Gramme / Emperors New Clothes) as "an infectious cocktail of American paranoia, Canadian objectivity and a very English obsession of introspection and the fly on the wall documentary with the warmth of an accessible sound”.

Official Burnt Toast has been featured in UK broadsheet The Observer, where respected fashion photographer Perou is quoted as saying: “I always shoot to music except when we’re being filmed for TV shows and we’re not allowed. My fave band at the moment is Official Burnt Toast. Their music is between spoken word and rap. It’s very funky, but with English sentiment”.

Known for their electric live performances, The band cite Glastonbury where they played the Green Peace stage to a capacity crowd as, “one of the best gigs we’ve done to date”.

Their double A-side single 'Money As Debt'/'Hi Time' is taken from their debut Album ‘Tubs’n Tongue - Fu’.

'Money As Debt' can be heard during The New Music Show airing daily at 8am/8pm EST.

The Pacers - 'Losing Touch'
Monday, September 28, 2015
The Pacers draw their influences from the sixties Psych/Garage scene, mixing it up with their own unique ideas to create unforgettable and energetic live performances in the same vein as The Stooges and The Stones, with a healthy dose of freakout psychedelia.

The band formed in the late summer of 2013 when Alexander Friedl and guitarist Harry Stam met under what they describe as "mysterious circumstances". With a shared interest in all things 60's and a desire to escape the monotony of everyday life, they duo picked up their guitars and began writing songs.

A former bandmate of Harry, bass player Jay Creswell, was next to join The Pacers, closely followed by drummer Jamie Yuan. With the line up complete, the band set about making a name for themselves on the underground music scene, playing a string of venues primarily in north and east London which have earned them a loyal and ever increasing fanbase. 'Losing Touch' is their debut single.

'Losing Touch' has been rising up the Jamsterdam Radio charts and can be heard during the New Music show airing daily at 8am/8pm EST.

Angéline - 'Black Butterflies'
Friday, August 21, 2015
Originally from Loire Atlantique in France, singer/songwriter Angéline is now based in London, the city in which she studied for her music degree. She describes her latest EP 'Back to Pike Place' as bold and raw, contrasting with the more traditional nature of her first EP 'Home', released in October 2014.

Writing the songs for 'Back to Pike Place', Angeline explored her ideas through the creation of demos with backing vocals and sounds made with whatever she could find in her room, tapping rhythms on her guitar or desk. Demos were sent to her collaborator Garry Cosgrove who arranged Angéline's tracks, striving to keep her organic sound. This is the key reason why she considers the EP to be particularly interesting. "It was made at home using whatever we had around us. The purpose was not to be limited by money that I don’t have, finding a way of creating songs with whatever is around me."

Of the tracks on the EP, Angéline says "‘Aama' is a very special song. I wrote it to pay tribute to Nepal using my Nepalese friend's testimony. Knowing how much suffering the earthquake caused I decided to give away the song in return for donations via justgiving.com. All funds go to the D.E.C charity for Nepal.

Inspiration for the EP has also come from Cuba. Angéline wrote these songs after visiting Havana recently to pursue her passion for Salsa dancing. The influence of Cuban beats can be heard clearly in the percussion on each of the tracks, but she also recorded the sounds of the streets, doing the same in London on her return. Those sounds link eack of the EP's tracks, taking the listener on a journey and highlighting the huge differences between her two favourite cities.

The London based songwriters upcoming EP is set to be released this September but the lead track 'Black Butterflies' can be heard on Jamsterdam Radio during The New Music Show. Below, the teaser for 'Back to Pike Place' can be heard along with her track 'Home' from her debut EP.

Liverpool singer/songwriter Tony Steele has returned to music with a new single 'Starting From Scratch', releasing on September 25th, 2015 and showcasing a stripped down folk/rock sound. Session musicians Charlie Landsborough Jnr, Laura Mackinlay, Peter Macparland and Grant Walker complete the line up of his band, The Massacre.

Tony's first band Monkey Steps, a psychedelic Scouse skiffle group, supported Alabama 3 and Pete Doherty. They also gave Catfish and the Bottlemen their first Liverpool gig when the young Welsh band opened for Monkey Steps at Liverpool's legendary Cavern Club.

Tony's lyrics are based on the three years he spent away from music drawing inspiration from the ups and downs that life has thrown at him. His new music was premiered at two gigs in London supporting Zak Starkey's band Penguins Rising and Inder Goldfinger's The Winachi Tribe, and was so well received that he has announced a UK tour, starting with a gig supporting John Power at Liverpool's Kazimier. Tony Steele and The Massacre will also be supporting Cast in Kendal, Alloa, and Paisley as well as headlining gigs in Birmingham, London, and Glasgow. The band will also be supporting John McCullough and the Escorts in Liverpool.

Catch Tony Steele and The Massacre during The New Music Show airing daily at 8am and 8pm EST.

The track can be pre-ordered now on iTunes.