Being the crazy fan of the neo-Victorian fashion genre known as steampunk as I am, I'm looking for music that speaks to the steamy side of me. Mainly electronic music mixed with hints of industrial ambience.

The Basin Street Brawlers are 'London's top hot jazz ensemble' (visitlondon.com). They are specialists in early jazz styles and are renowned for delivering their music 'with all the energy and assurance of a bunch of Kansas City veterans' (The Sunday Times). Their debut record 'It's Tight Like That' has garnered critical acclaim, described as a work of 'world class musicianship' (BBC). 

The Brawlers regularly give concerts at the UK's major jazz and chamber music venues, including the Royal Albert Hall's Elgar Room, the Pizza Express Jazz Club and the Holywell Music Room. The group are also in demand playing for dancers, featuring at the European Swing Dance Championships and headlining the London Swing Dance Festival numerous times.

The Brawlers have also led masterclasses in early jazz styles at schools and conservatoires, including the Guildhall School of Music. 2016 will see them continue to develop their educational work alongside an exciting performance schedule.

twitter: @basinstbrawlers
WWW.BASINSTREETBRAWLERS.COM

Rock and roll; more emphasis on the roll.

For the better part of a decade, the eponymous songwriter found messages to put out. Utilizing the contributions of a revolving door of musical collaboration, the music became enlivened. Each member helps to fashion songs that evoke both a wildness in desire and nostalgia. What it creates is an outlet. Where distant memories and inspirations shape the present. Where the old generations of rock and roll are simply a jumping-off point into songwriting. Where pensive rhythms and swaying, foot-tapping melodies breathe once worn-out themes to new life.
 
There’s no such thing as a good or bad song. Music hits emotion or it doesn’t. The Mike Lynch Band makes good on this. As a Midwestern act from Carbondale, IL., now based out of Nashville, TN, they manage to relate a universal element through their airwaves. To shape songs that embody the errors and mistakes of experience. Music about love and inadequacy, hunger and guns. The Mike Lynch Band evokes the effect that collaborated life produces: honest and wild human emotion.
 
                                     							-Fredric Saunders

Followers of ElKadaBert