Getting it Wrong: A Chat with Jamie from Audio Antihero

Audio Antihero is a record label that specialises in all shades of off-kilter indie music. The label's very first release was the furiously fidgety We're Gonna Walk Around This City With Our Headphones On to Block Out the Noise by Nosferatu D2, and since then Audio Antihero's purview has expanded outwards to include everything from folk music to laptop pop, experimental soundscapes to route-one punk.

The man at the helm of the Audio Antihero frigate is Jamie Halliday. Jamie lived in London when the label first launched, but he has since moved to the USA, a country that - as you may be aware - recently elected TV business guy Donald Trump as its leader. In the wake of Trump's inauguration, Jamie (with the help of many cool bands and artists from the US and elsewhere) put together a compilation album called Unpresidented Jams to raise money for the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

June Playlist: Set the Silverware Shaking

Another month has come and gone, which means that it's time for another monthly digest playlist thing! Here are ten of the songs that kept me boppin' last month...

1. The Stranger Fair - Jack Hayter and Ralegh Long

(from Songs About Albums: Volume 1)

I could have chosen any of the ten tracks from Songs About Albums for this month's playlist, but this beautiful tribute to Richard and Linda Thompson's Shoot Out the Lights seemed like a wonderful way to kick things off. If you haven't downloaded the compilation yet, go here now - it's free!

3 Love Songs

For the last few days, I've been asking various bands and musicians if they'd like to cover a track from 69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields. The plan, ultimately, is to cover all sixty-nine songs; quite a few people have already opted in, as evidenced by the big list on this page.

Last night, the first couple of recordings came in. Today, I received a third. Let's listen, shall we?

Want to submit a cover of your own? Go here, choose a song that's not already taken, and then let me know which one it is. You can do this via email (thealbumwall@outlook.com) or on Twitter (@TheAlbumWall); either way, I'll cross your track off the list and you can send over your version whenever it's ready.