A Sunny Day in Brooklyn

By Jason Diamond I guess A Sunny Day in Glasgow getting tagged as a “twee” band isn’t totally unjustified. After all, they share 75% of their name with mid-80’s Sarah Records band, Another Sunny Day. Of course, then there is the Belle and Sebastian connection: the Scottish band (who come from Glasgow) had a song in 2006 called, “Another Sunny Day”, and though I’m unsure whether the song pre-dates A.S.D.I.G., I’m willing to bet one of these references points toward […]

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Bites: New Princeton song, bad children books, fiction issues, the growing influence of Kindle, and more

Last year when we conversed with Princeton (pictured above), they were just getting over the heaps of critical praise after six months promoting their phenomenal four song Bloomsbury EP, we hardly had any ideas about their future. Now, nearly five months after that conversation, the group gets set to release their first album on Kanine Records, Cocoon of Love, and have given us the first single, “Calypso Gold“. I now predict that the world is six months away from being […]

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