Keep an eye out for 'The King Blues'

The King Blues

The King Blues are a highly political punk band from London, England. They use a fusion of folk and ska to create a highly unique sound which is both fun to listen too and memorable. They claim to have influences from Public Enemy, The Clash, The Specials, Black Flag and Minor Threat. 

Bit of Background

The King Blues originally started as a duo with Johnny 'Itch' Fox (pictured above) playing the ukulele and vocals; and Jamie Jazz playing the acoustic guitar, as well as backing vocals. In 2004 they self released a demo EP titled "All Fall Down" featuring 5 tracks recorded by Itch on guitar and vocals. The cover and CD body art was a stencil of a fuse bomb and the band's logo, each one was hand sprayed.

In June 2006 they released their debut album 'Under The Fog' with the single 'Mr Music man' being voted the best punk song of 2006 by Radio 1.

In October 2008 the band released 'Save the world, Get the girl' which is an album I would personally recommend. It has everything from the slow, melancholy feel of 'Out of luck' to the upbeat, anger infused 'The Streets are ours'. The first song I heard by this band was off of this album called 'I got Love' it is a song that I would recommend to everyone and anyone because it is a very good song with a very good message.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYOEGymrYCk

After a band reshuffle they finally released their 3rd album 'Punk and Poetry'. In this album The King blues ditch the acoustic guitars and pick up the Electrics as they take a heavier approach to their songwriting and finally give their political rants the backbone it needed.

So i'm a huge fan of this band and I recommend this band to anyone who has a strong interest in political restitance as well as enjoying punk/ska.

Josh K.

Ben Howard 'Every Kingdom'

Every Kingdom is Ben Howard's debut album. Ben Howard is an acoustic artist from Devon, his music is described as folk especially since many of his influences include the likes of Joni Mitchell, Donovan, and Richie Havens. 


He's been surfing since he was 11 and in his music you can hear the laid back feel of surf rock/folk as well as being able to picture the ocean and beach whilst listening to his music.


The whole album has a very relaxed feel about it and is currently one of my favourite albums. 






Track Listing

1.	"Old Pine"
2.	"Diamonds"
3.	"The Wolves"
4.	"Everything"
5.	"Only Love"
6.	"The Fear"
7.	"Keep Your Head Up"
8.	"Black Flies"
9.	"Gracious"
10.	"Promise"
11.	"Seven Bottles" Old Pine was released as the albums first single and still remains my favourite song on the album. Ben Howards guitar technique is a wonder to listen too as he developed the technique of using his knuckles to hit the body of his guitar in between strums to create a percussive effect, this technique is also used by other acoustic artists such as Newton Faulkner. I must admit, listening to his singles such as Old Pine and The Wolves gave me high hopes for this album but some of the songs don't quite meet the standard set by these singles. 'Only Love' is one of these songs; the guitar riff and back beat is all there but it is let down by the way the vocal line is written in the versus (my opinion). Unfortunately the rise of Ben Howard has been overshadowed by Ed Sheeran. On paper both these artists are very similar but by listening to them you can hear a strong distinct difference between the highly commercial ginger nut and the homegrown surfer boy from Devon. I believe that Ben Howard is one of the best singer/songwriters around at this moment in time and I hope that a second album is in progress. If a new album is in the working I hope that he can fix some of the problems that are seen on the 1st album because I believe that this man could have the world in his pocket very soon. Old Pine <--- My Favourite song, take a listen. Josh K.

Tyler, The Creators 'Wolf'

Hey Guys,

So, this is my first ever Blog and today I'm going to talk about an album that I am currently very excited for; this album is Tyler, The Creators 3rd album 'Wolf' which is scheduled for release in May 2012.

Tyler, The Creator is the frontman of the infamous Hip-Hop collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (OFWGKTA). Wolf will allegedly continue Tylers psychiatric sessions with the fictional character Dr. TC, this was hinted on Tylers first album 'Bastard' where Dr. TC says 'this is the first of three sessions'. Tyler himself has said that this album will focus more on the beats rather than the rapping.

Tyler has said the he wants to use his favourite beats that he's been creating since he was 15. There are a few confirmed tracks such as, 'Good Morning' featuring Domo Genesis, and a song called 'Berlin'. 'Llama' featuring Earl Sweatshirt was meant to be on 'Goblin' (Tylers 2nd album) but was not used due to Earls mum not giving Tyler permission to use Earls vocals, as much as I would like it to be on Wolf, Tyler is not expecting to get permission to use it. (FREE EARL)

Tyler plans on producing the whole album himself, except for the odd song done by Left Brain, this is how Goblin was created.

This is all I know at the moment, any updates will be posted here.

Josh K.

Welcome to our blog!

Hey!

This is Wax Music Reviews, we are a blog starting out hopefully to get bigger. We aim to review up and coming artists and recommend the best ones to you along with any good albums and singles we stumble on.

We also may make the odd ridiculous post about something crazy we might have done (:

Oliver Askew, Oliver McNally, Josh Kenyon and Karl Sherwin.