Guest Blogger - I Like Music

La Shark - Magazine Cover



London five-piece La Shark have built a great reputation for themselves with their raucous shows and funky leftfield pop, and they've fast become an I Like Music favourite. Their lead singer Samuel sent their new single Magazine Cover over to us on Thursday, and Now Playing @6Music will play it exclusively ahead of its release sometime in the next two months.





Dutch Uncles - X.O



'We've always had quite a simple outline for our music - to use weird time signatures in a sort of indie-pop context.' Duncan, Dutch Uncles



With the recent release of their second album Cadenza, Manchester's Dutch Uncles present a thrilling collection of time-signature toying proclivities refined into eleven feverish nuggets of astute indie-pop. I Like Music recently caught up with singer Duncan for a lengthy chat. From the justly lauded success of mates-from-home Everything Everything, Wu Lyf and Egyptian Hip Hop, to their Uni-lecturer (who lectured their bass player and, er...produced the album) - we delve into the process behind a record set to further highlight the forward thinking indie bubbling out of a City smothered in musical heritage.





Entrepreneurs - Bubblegunk



We love Entrepreneurs for his murky melodies and eccentric productions. A one-man explosion of wilful weirdness packaged into inexplicably hummable bursts of energy, there's as much LCD Soundsystem in his blood as there is Micachu & The Shapes. You can listen to his new single Bubblegunk on our Indie Playlist.





Cyrus Malachi - Brave New World



'Illusions of choice, the media is lucifer's voice. Carnage in the streets, dissidents exchanging rounds with police.' Cyrus Malachi, Brave New World



Having firmly established himself as one of the most talented, erudite and uncompromising emcees around, Cyrus Malachi stepped away from revered hip hop collectives Triple Darkness and Orphans of Cush to drop his eagerly awaited, debut solo album Ancient Future this April. As if this wasn't enough, the deep-thinking emcee landed smack bang on the Hip Hop pages of I Like Music with a full-on artist take over.

Though his live shows and release dates are few and far between, his recent release upholds his reputation as an emcee with the verbal dexterity necessary to explore his literary preoccupations.

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Many thanks to I Like Music and their editor, Kim, for contributing to Now Playing this week. Their site is well worth visiting, and takeovers from the likes of Katy B, Guillemots and Wild Beasts are really interesting and innovative.

Listen to her on the show later between 7-9pm, only on 6 Music.