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Tuesday, 5 November 2013

WE LOVE: FOXES

Foxes aka Louisa Rose Allen is a total fox! As well as that she has us dancing around our shops, studio and homes with her new singles accompanied by some wonderfully styled music videos!

Her catchy new singles Youth and Echo show her range and how a strong voice with a great tune can make for one hell of a good catchy pop song! We're not usually big pop fans at COW but Foxes might have changed us.

We also have a huge style crush! She can pretty much wear any style and it looks great. We're guessing she doesn't normally run round a sequinned body suit like she does so well in the Youth video, but even your regular vintage tee, leather jacket and high-waisted shorts look like something special on her never mind those uber-cute Mickey Mouse Ears!

We highly recommend if you haven't already heard of Foxes you get straight to her YouTube Channel and listen to every single song and dance around while you do so.

If you want to hear more from Foxes make sure to check out the links below and her Instagram which shows just how cute she is in real life! She's not playing over here just yet but we will have to put a bit of sparkle on to go and see her soon.

Monday, 23 September 2013

PLAY LOUD: FKA Twigs

She's caught our eye in the press with her super 90's hair do, decorative earrings and big red lips but after listening to more from FKA Twigs we decided she's not just a pretty face and works that look in with her angelic voice softly drizzled over a mix of electronic and R&B.

The 25 year old originally from Gloucestershire is residing in London but says "she likes to keep herself to herself". This might be how she can pull off an almost sinister sounding song backed up by noises of ticking clocks with bashing cymbals but also make it sound quite pop.
The up-coming star was recently shot for the cover of the Youthful Issue of i-D Magazine and she looks very comfortable as she is not even styled too heavily but just oozes cool!

We will definitely be keeping our eyes and ears out for what she's up to and await an album release! For now though we'll just sit back and chill out to a few of our favourites so far.

FKA TWIGS - ACHE

FKA TWIGS - WATER ME

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Thursday, 29 August 2013

JAWS JAWS JAWSSS X WE ARE COW

Our photographer in the field Richard went to Beacons festival a couple of weekends ago and met up, chatted and snapped the Brummie boys from JAWS.

These guys are going on a UK tour in September and have already been featured on BBC introducing stage at Reading & Leeds as well as a host of other festivals and in the word of the NME, they are producing 'Dreamy, Surf, Synth, Indie, Beach, Pop'

All photography by Richard.

HEY ALEX, CONNOR, EDDY AND JAKE AKA, JAWS.

HOW WAS THE REST OF YOUR BEACONS FESTIVAL, DID YOU GET A CHANCE TO CATCH MANY OTHER BANDS?
 We didn’t stick around for long, but we saw Melodys Echo Chamber which was pretty cool! We saw Wolf Alice too and the band that was on before us.

YOU PLAYED THE BBC INTRODUCING STAGE AT READING & LEEDS THIS WEEKEND RIGHT, MUST HAVE BEEN FEELING PRETTY PUMPED FOR THAT?
Reading was amazing, probably one of the best shows we’ve ever done, same for leeds. Really really fun!

YOU START A HEADLINE TOUR IN SEPTEMBER, ANY MORE FESTIVALS BEFORE THEN?
We have Bestival and then it's tour O'Clock. (Tour dates).

ANY NEWS OF AN ALBUM OR A NEW EP?
Nothing set in stone but we are writing loads at the mo so we’ll have to wait and see.

WHAT BANDS/ GIGS HAVE BEEN THE BEST YOU HAVE PLAYED?
Best gig was probably the legendary X-Mas show last December at the Rainbow warehouse in Birmingham. We played, Peace played, Swim Deep played, Superfood played. It was magical.

WHAT IS YOUR MUST HAVE FESTIVAL ITEM?
Toilet roll

WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE ITEM BOUGHT FROM FROM A VINTAGE STORE?
I have this cord flower shirt that I actually got from COW in Birmingham

WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE STORE?
COW DUH

IF YOU COULD BE A FAMOUS PERSON DEAD OR ALIVE WHO WOULD YOU BE?

50 Cent

WHAT ANIMAL WOULD YOU BE?
Penguin

SO WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH CONNOR'S EYEBROWS? I HEARD THEY HAVE THEIR OWN TWITTER PAGE?
Yeah haha, I think they have 100 followers now, smashing it.
https://twitter.com/connoreyebrows

WHO'S YOUR FAVOURITE OLD SCHOOL FOOTBALLERS?
ALAN SHEARER x5

YOU CAN ONLY HAVE ONE BAND MEMBER PER ANSWER FOR THESE:

COOLEST? – Eddy

MOST FASHIONABLE? – Eddy

LOUDEST? – Eddy (banging them tubs)

THE BIGGEST LIGHTWEIGHT? – I don’t drink so probably me

BEST FOOTBALLER? – Not Eddy

WORST MUSIC TASTE? – We all like System Of A Down so none of us

ANY SHOUT OUTS? Hi Mom

FIND AND FOLLOW JAWS HERE:

TWITTER: @JAWSJAWSJAWSSS

INSTAGRAM @JAWSJAWSJAWS

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TUMBLR

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-PEACE-

Rich

Saturday, 13 July 2013

SWIM DEEP

Its everybody's favourite indie boy band from B.Town (Birmingham) these boys have come a long way in the past two years and are now hitting the big time.

The boys are regulars at our COW Vintage store in Digbeth and we are glad to see them absolutely smashing it. Playing a host of festival and tonnes of tour dates make sure you get along to hear their infectious indie tunes like 'King City' with their debut album coming out in less than a months time on the 5th Aug.

So kick of your shoes and open your ears to the sun

kissed noise of our boys from Brum.

SWIM~DEEP!

SWIM DEEP ~ KING CITY

SWIM DEEP ~ HONEY

~PEACE~

RICH

Monday, 8 July 2013

This years Big Deal is ...

Big Deal! This grungy four piece from London are taking over our playlists, with Alice Costelloe's beautiful tones and Kacey Underwoods perfect harmonising its hard not to turn it up. 'June Gloom' their debut album was released last month and they have just been touring and celebrating the superb record.

I went to see them recently at Manchester's Soup Kitchen here are some of the photos.