The Other Woman on Amazing Radio: Listen again

This week we play you London duo Death Rattle's debut single The Dig as well as bouncing electro-pop joy from the Brooklyn gal with a filthy mouth Azealia Banks... Electro duo Paper Crows gave us their new single for a spin too and in fact there's a bit of an electro theme with music from composer Tara Busch, Bristolian ambient artists Bambikill and Rio native Anna-Anna. There's much more to enjoy...

The Other Woman is on Amazing Radio every Sunday evening from 7-9pm. Playing the best in new music from female artists and female fronted bands.

This week we sit in for Gill Mills Tues-Thurs evenings 7-8pm. Tune in on your digital radio in the UK or online.

Sharon Van Etten Interview: Tramp

You might remember TOW catching up with Brooklyn’s Sharon Van Etten at the beginning of the year. She was on tour with The National and riding high on the critical acclaim of her first album proper Epic. Here us catch up with Sharon here.

Well now almost a year later, the singer songwriter has announced details of her forthcoming album, Tramp, which will be out on her new label home Jagjaguwar in the new year (February 6 2012).

Van Etten worked with Aaron Dessner from The National on this record, working from his home studio in a leafy part of Brooklyn. Guests on the record include Jenn Wasner from Baltimore duo Wye Oak and the wonderfully ethereal Julianna Barwick... TOW caught up with SVE in a pub near Hyde Park on her recent brief trip through London to talk about conquering this filthy great city, working with Aaron and finally finding a home.

  


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6 Music picks: Two Wings and Hollows

Every week we get to play two tracks for Tom Robinson on his excellent BBC 6 Music Introducing show... you can listen again here.   

Two Wings - Eikon


 
A chance encounter with Two Wings supporting Essie Jain at Cafe Oto last year led TOW to fall head over heels. Hanna Tuulikki and Ben Reynolds and their merry band make such joyous music, it's hard not to grin stupidly whilst listening. Hanna is no stranger to us, having already got into her solo project Nalle - there's plenty more going on in her musical world too and the same can be said for Ben. But it seems they've found their true home together now, with Two Wings - channeling the greats like The Band, Richard Thompson and other seventies era folk Americana greats, but with Hanna's haunting, inimitable vocal setting this band stand leagues apart from their contemporaries of a similar ilk.


Catch them live at Cafe Oto on 9 December.


Hollows - Shapeshifter

   

Hollows are a five piece girl band from Chicago (well, there's an honorary boy on drums ;) who found each other through a Craigslist add that included the phrases "60s, funeral, girl group, Shangri-Las," - 'nuff said! The Chicago Tribune recently said of this band: "No band is currently making better use of the Farfisa-like Gibson G101 combo organ than Hollows." Agreed! We think... Either way we're smitten with this infectious, tight and flawless band. More please.

Hot Sand/ Shapeshifter is out now on Soft Power Records.
 

Ladies First panel at UnderWire Film Festival

 
London’s UnderWire Festival showcases the best up-and-coming female filmmakers - running from Wednesday 23 November until Saturday 26th. As part of the various panel discussions and screenings taking place, TOW is chairing a panel discussing the representation of women in music videos.

Ladies First will take place at the Shortwave Cinema in Bermondsey from 4pm.

Joining yours truly is the editor of The Girls Are, Annette Barlow, music video director Ben Reed (Joan As Police Woman), Caroline Clayton from Ministry of Sound and Professor Maria Barrett from London's South Bank University.

As well as celebrating the kind of ground breaking videos by artists like JAPW and Peaches, we'll be puzzling over the get-your-kit-off-now-girls trend in mainstream pop culture and checking out some hot new talent doing things their own way.

Tickets for the panel are £5 and are available from the Underwire Festival’s website. The festival runs from November 23 to November 26, and also includes programmes of short films, discussions on performance video art and a film criticism workshop – the full programme can be viewed here.

Amazing Radio - The Other Woman - 20 November 2011

Week three of the brand new show on Amazing Radio - Sunday evenings 7-9pm... we're in the swing of things now and can't wait to bring you the best in new music from female artists and female fronted bands every week! You can listen again to this week's show here... or if you just wanna skip through the playlist you can head to The Other Woman Music's profile on Amazing Tunes - happy listening!

6 Music picks: Chapter 24 & Mari Kvien Brunvoll

Every week we get to play two tracks for Tom Robinson on his excellent BBC 6 Music Introducing show... you can listen again here.  

CHAPTER 24 - Spindle

Spindle is out on Odd Box Records on November 28 - and it's a stormer! This Corby four piece have come into their own and are currently on a Stateside tour, wowing the Yanks as only a Corby band could. Spindle is short and sweet but really sums up what this band are about: riotous, melodic, punk pop with Claire Smith's deep, layered and distorted vocal taking it stratospheric every time. TOW met the band at 6 Music last year and what a charming bunch they are, all set for success!

Marie Kvien Brunvoll - Everywhere You Go


What is it with jazz musicians and terrible online profiles? Norwegian artist Mari has a dodgy myspace and a Facebook profile - set up by a fan. Come on Mari, get it together! This Molde-born singer and multi-instrumentalist has already made her mark on the burgeoning Norwegian jazz scene and is threatening to do the same outside of her home country. Using loops, pedals, zithers (!) and that stunning voice of hers she makes haunting, beautiful music that captivates the listener. There's a blues sensibility in there too and her music boarders on folk and acoustic too, it's a shame she's been pigeon-holed as a jazz artist as this can put *some* people off. Not the open-minded readers of TOW though ;)

The Other Woman Podcast with Tom Robinson

In this edition the gals snuck into a fancy studio with our guests - music legend, indie champ and all round DUDE Tom Robinson and Piney Gir's drummer and musician David Fisher. They were our choices as 'Menimists' which we thought we coined as a kind of fun way of saying they're Better Feminists Than We Are... only to have Dave knock that on the head during the interview, turns out Menimists exist and aren't very nice! Journalist Jude Rogers is at the table, along with musician Piney Gir and our vodka swigging showbiz expert Stef Schadenfreude...  Our discussion with Tom and Dave looks at Feminism from a male perspective, oh and Tinkerbell gets it .

http://theotherwomanpodcast.podbean.com/

Amazing Radio - The Other Woman - 13 November 2011

Week two of the brand new show on Amazing Radio - Sunday evenings 7-9pm... we're in the swing of things now and can't wait to bring you the best in new music from female artists and female fronted bands every week! You can listen again to this week's show here... or if you just wanna skip through the playlist you can head to The Other Woman Music's profile on Amazing Tunes - happy listening!

Amazing Radio - The Other Woman - 6 November 2011

It's with much excitement that The Other Woman is back on the radio airwaves on Amazing Radio... Two hours of the best in new music from female artists and female fronted bands every Sunday evening 7-9pm. You can listen again to this week's show here... or if you just wanna skip through the playlist you can head to The Other Woman Music's profile on Amazing Tunes - happy listening!