I've received a number of messages in recent weeks regarding fellow SoundCloud users having their remixes of Somebody That I Used To Know removed from SoundCloud due to copyright infringement. My personal position is that I don't try to block unofficial remixes posted for online streaming providing they're posted for purely creative reasons and are not exploited commercially (eg: monetized on YouTube).

Under current laws the formal consent of the label and publisher/s is required for any use along these lines however, and as much as I would like to help everyone out to attain this consent, there are simply too many requests relating to remixes of this particular song and too many rights holders involved for me or my reps to assist with Soundcloud keeping them up.

Thanks for your understanding

Wally

Autumn Sky Hall is a 25+ year veteran of the folk scene in California and now the east coast who's entranced audiences for many generations since she began playing at 15 years old. 

An early vocal jazz major, she's a part of the California music Hall of Fame (with 7 wins for Artist of the Year, Best Songwriter and Best Indie,) and has played over 5,000 shows, many to crowds in the 10,000s and had listens in the 100,000s for releases online of her music over the years. She's graced the stage at The Sundance Film Festival, opened for Manchester Orchestra at Powerhouse Pub and for Heart at Bottlerock and at The Club Car, she's got a drink named after her for playing so often. She's played Sacramento Pride, Hotel Utah, San Francisco Music Festival, Napa Wine Festival, Holy Diver, Goldfield  Ace of Spades over six times, Concerts in the Park over five times, Harlows over seven times, Chalk It Up! Art Fundraiser Festival seven times, TBD Fest, City of Trees Fest, The Sacramento Music Awards, The Napa Theater, The Blue Note, Harlows, The Russ Room, Chalk It Up! and thousands of events, shows and open mics more since first starting. 

Her approach to Folk, Indie and Americana makes the traditionally predictable genre shine with a new sheen all her own, reflecting the times we live in for a brand new generation of folks who, well, love folk and want to see themselves in it. Her lyrics  \(always the most remarked upon thing in her arsenal,) comfortable crowd work on stage and emotional vulnerability are the cherry on top of a sundae already reflecting the musical foundational styles of her go to favorites (Bruce Springsteen, Dolly Parton, Patty Griffin, Tom Petty, Emmylou Harris, Cat Stevens and Lucinda Williams) as well as modern heavy hitters (Brandi Carlisle, Sierra Farrell, Alison Ponthier, Lucy Dacus, Phoebe Bridgers, Clairo, Cat Power, Kacey Musgraves, Tre Burt, Leigh Graham Nash, Rainbow Girls and Allison Russell) she's a fan of.

Her latest releases are being considered as her best work by far, working together with the decades of talented people she's met along the way. She released "I Woke Up," a decades long crowd favorite known by heart by many who like to sing along at shows, "My Anxious Brain & My Broken Heart" and its coinciding music video, followed up recently by "LA" and it's music video, as well.

Not to say she's been standing idly by: she's been busy recording the over 500 songs she wrote in the past two decades in her "reclamation of self" projects which seek to bring the work she was doing as a young person with lots of passion but very little connection or money to release her work, onto official recordings for the first time ever. Oh, and she's also rehearsing, booking. and writing more music. Please send tea (sort of a joke but also not!)

OUR DEBUT SINGLE IS NOW AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD ON iTUNES HERE:
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Having developed a strong Manchester following, it’s easy to see Secret Pilot able to be successful in the current musical climate.' - <a href="http://Heymancheckmyband.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Heymancheckmyband.com</a>

'Secret Pilot from Manchester in England, play some superbly constructed indie music. With a strong following in Manchester, England and two releases behind them, they are beginning to garner wider attention. Paring back on frivolity, they play honest and accessible indie rock. Many bands can do this, what makes Secret Pilot stand out is the sheer power which emerges like a nymph out of the pure clarity of the music. This is evidently a talented group of musicians who have a clear ear to production, as their material stands as though in a spotlight on the stage, vulnerable, yet intoxicating in it’s exposure' - Indie Bands Blog
Indie Bands Blog "Band of the Week" 9th April 2011 - <a href="http://www.indiebandsblog.com/indie-bands-blog-round-up/band-of-the-week/band-of-the-week-9th-april-2011" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.indiebandsblog.com/indie-bands-blog-round-up/band-of-the-week/band-of-the-week-9th-april-2011</a>

'With truly original bands are getting harder and harder to find, Manchester's Secret Pilot bring a refreshingly original sound in a usually generic genre. This talented quartet is making waves on the indie scene and it won't be long before they're snapped up by a major label. The EP features unique vocals, stunning guitar solos and choruses that you'll be humming for weeks.' - Push To Fire

'Secret Pilot are showing great promise considering they’ve only been around for a year... their melodic bass, skilful drumming, and intriguing blend of US rock tones with UK folk could yet live up to this promising start.' - AAAMusic

"You're instantly going to find yourself listening to Secret Pilot again and again. There's something brilliant about the music they are producing, with its uncomplicated sound making it accessible to all lovers of music" - <a href="http://BANDINABOX.TV" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BANDINABOX.TV</a>



“Taco Land is everything you’d expect from a band from South Texas called Taco Land and nothing you’d expect from a band from South Texas called Taco Land”  - Joe Wolfe-Mazeres (Ear to the Ground)

We're not the best, but we're pretty good.

/!\ FIRST EP IS OUT /!\
I will keep on making songs alone.
I'm clearly addicted.
As long as it cleans my mind, 
I will walk on that road

I won't make it radio friendly.
That is not my purpose.
















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Alone in my basement I make songs.

They are parts of a project started alone in June 2011.














Hello, it's me.

My new album "The Work" is out now on City Slang. 

thanks x

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King of Spain are a five-piece from Balham (famously dubbed ‘Gateway to the South’ by Peter Sellers), South London. After years of sending home-recorded demos of varying degrees of quality to anyone who’d listen, their debut album ‘Battleships & Aeroplanes’ was released in 2008 on Oxford’s pioneering Shifty Disco label. Recorded on a dairy farm near the Oxfordshire village of Steventon, the record was received by the media with a mixture of delight, consternation, confusion and downright anger. NME loved it, Artrocker did not.

Album track ‘Bacon’ was selected by William Ravenscroft (son of the late, great John Peel) as one of his gems of 2008, and received airplay on the legendary Tom Robinson’s BBC6 radio show. Once a clean edit had been hurriedly produced to remove a particularly offensive swear word, Tom also took to spinning live favourite ‘Menagerie’. Last year the band returned to the cow shed to beach some fresh tunes, and begin the process of recording Album Numero Deux, 'thirtydegreeshandsonhipsleanforwardsmile', with long-suffering producer/engineer Rowland Prytherch (a.k.a. Badger). It will be released October 7th 2011 on Shifty Disco records. 

King of Spain run ‘flux=rad’, an occasional showcase of lo-fi and alternative music that usually happens at their spiritual home, the 12 Bar Club in Soho, and sometimes at the Notting Hill Arts Club in, err, Notting Hill. They also play gigs in places from Berlin to Bournemouth, but can be pretty much persuaded to go anywhere given the promise of beer and/or food. 

'Reeking of Hefner and The Go-Betweens, this album stands as a homage to a great school of underground indie where books weren't just used for Ordinary Boys photoshoots, and an encyclopaedic knowledge of Orange Juice's back catalogue is grounds for marriage...awesome'
8/10 - NME 

'All in all a promising debut' 4/5 - Subba-Cultcha

'It's genius, no doubt, but what in the world does it sound like? Sea shanty rock? The Libertines take a holiday to the seashore? It defies description.' - rocksellout.com

'Bright, jangly, thoughtful indie music that gets better and better with every listen. They have an LP out now called 'Battleships & Aeroplanes' on Shifty Disco records, which you'll be playing over and over again until everyone you know is sick of it and doesn't like you anymore.' 
- William Ravenscroft

'Playing a weird mix of indie rock and sea shanties, these guys are sort of like a British Decemberists, and are definitely one to watch.' - spoonfed.co.uk 

'It is King of Spain whose star burns the brightest.' 
- gigwise.com, review of ShiftyDisco10 compilation

"As close to underground indie-dom as you can get" - musicomh.com

"These four blokes from South London have captured that raw Britishness of a Libertines record better than twenty other bands who were trying harder could do" - Bearded Magazine

"Indie rock crossed with Johnny Cash with a grunge Ian Botham on bass - awesome!" - Myriad Creatures

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