Suffolk 'n' Cool - International Indie Music Podcast

SnC 429 – Finale

A retrospective show this week to celebrate the past (almost) nine years of weekly Suffolk’n’Cool shows. There’s a mixture of old and relatively new music from artists that have a significance for me always, initially for their music and also , in many cases for the personal contact and friendships that have developed and continue to this day. Sadly, this is the final SnC weekly show and there’s an awful lot of music, so brace yourself!   Happy - Jimmie Bratcher (Kansas City, USA) Jimmie Br...

SnC 428 – Dubby

We’ve gone a bit dubby this week with a couple of artists from the excellent A Quiet Bump net label in Sicily. Boo Boo Davis brings us back to our blues roots and then gives it all a bit of a twist and to start a great sound from Bath, here in the UK.   Allergy - Tonight We Fly (Bath, UK) Highs - Tonight We Fly  Tonight We Fly formed early in 2014 in Bath, Somerset, and are made up of members Jack Godby, Tom Summers, Ned French and Craig Spensely. The band seem perennially in love with the n...

SnC 427 – Days of Summer

As the dog days of summer splutter into the first mists of autumn we’re taking a moderately chilled approach to this week’s show with tracks from artists in Nashville, Halifax, New York and Lisbon, Portugal. Kick back, chill out and enjoy the music although there is, of course something bit more rocking in the first track.   Blue Hotel - Kate Tucker and the Sons of Sweden (Nashville, USA)  The State I’m In - Kate Tucker and the Sons of Sweden (Nashville, USA) Seattle-born, Nashville-based Ka...

SnC 426 – Wildly West

We’ve got a live recording from the high desert of New Mexico, Ghostly sounds from Seattle, Afrobeat from Brooklyn and to start, songs collected by a biologist in the Carpathian mountains of Central and Eastern Europe over a hundred years ago.   Ej, Lasko, lasko - Aram Bajakian & Julia Ulehla (Dálava) (New York City, USA) Rock Paper A biologist was so enchanted by the music of a small Moravian village at the western hem of the Carpathians over a hundred years ago that he meticulously transcri...

SnC 425 – Crooned and stirred

Variety again I'm afraid, with tracks from  a bunch of Milwaukee collaborators, a film music studio not quite on the Pont d’Avignon, the legend that is Plastikman and, to start, a multi-instrumentalist obsessive in Portland, Oregon.   Violet Waves - Bike Thief (Portland, OR, USA) Bike Thief is the brainchild of vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Febian Perez. According to PDXPick.com, Perez was inspired by the Italian film, The Bicycle Thieves, when he named his band Bike Thief. After moving ...