#ff Courtney Love, Ice, Sea, Dead People, Gamerdisco & Hardly Art

As always, click through on the Twitter profile pic to follow.

They're playing a show for us in a few weeks. They make amazing guitar noise pop, with great shouty vocals and some frenetic rhythms. They also made Piers Morgan very angry on Twitter, which is the best reason to follow them.

Really great label based in Seattle who have an uncanny knack of finding great artists that we invariably love, and then putting their records out. La Sera, Seapony, Colleen Green (our NBOTW), Black Marble are just a few of the great artists on their varied and boundary pushing roster.

Not much to say on this living icon. When presented with a choice of who to follow, Courtney Love Cobain or Hole, I just read her profile description, "Don't follow me if you don't like seeing Fuck in your feed, but you can follow @holerock for tour info, shouldn't be any fucks on that one". We love Hole, but not sure we can live without... 

Gamerdisco! This is the best idea ever for a night club (in my humble opinion, not sure how my fellow SNH colleagues feel). Seriously, if I could have a night playing Mario Kart then partying hard, then playing Smash Bros Brawl a bit, then dancing a bit, then more Smash Bros Brawl, it'd be the best night ever. Follow these peeps and keep up to date with their upcoming events. Your life will better (if you live in London).

New Band of the Week – 17/06/13 – Colleen Green

It’s funny/scary how the universe/internet works – earlier, someone tweeted about Colleen Green – at the time of reading the tweet, I misconstrued Colleen Green to be some sort of US mar-i-ju-an-a  festival and thought little of it (her Twitter handle is @ColleenGreen420). Clearly, the seeds had been planted in my consciousness. An hour or so later, Colleen Green later popped up on Spotify Radio and I instantly thought: ‘it is meant to be’. That said - the internet may have just manipulated me.

Either way, there you have it – Colleen Green = NBOTW. So let me tell you more...(the internet has helped me with this also):

Equipped with a guitar and a drum machine, CG is a scrappy and dynamic LA based DIY grunger.  Her tunes are tinged with hues of sunkissed Californian goodness, coupled with elements evocative of 1960s girl groups – think: The Crystals; Shangri-las, Ronettes etc. Lyrically, she talks about boyfriends; break ups; mean girls and school friends. Her music purveys the kind of giddy naivety, which is juxtaposed with the harsh reality that comes with being a teenage girl.

Have a listen: