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Burning Shapes released their debut album, These Things Happen, in October and MarsBands gave it a couple spins and came away amazed. The album is full of brilliant vocals, harmonies, melodies, and music. You may recall we conducted a series of interviews with Toby back before the album (or its name) were released and well […]

                Lupine Bell Background Info Born out of frustration and unbridled fascination, LUPINE BELL formed in the summer of 2011 with 3 members of various other projects of years gone by. They now exist to play pop music loud and sad. All three shared a commitment and belief […]

The Black Keys Are Making It Trendy I hear it all the time, from people around me, on YouTube, even some random comments I get here at the site. “What happened to Rock and Roll”? That’s the million dollar question. Lots of people are wondering that same exact thing. In fact, the not-so-recent decline of […]

Toby Uffindell-Phillips of Burning Shapes was gracious enough to grant an interview to MarsBands.com via a Skype call. This is the fourth and final part of that interview. In part 1 Toby talked about the origins of the band, their sound, and some influences. In part 2, Toby told us about his school days, how […]

In part 2, Toby tells us about his school days, how he started taking an interest in music, and his process for writing a song. Although we couldn’t get him to give up the name of the new album to be released in early 2012, Toby did talk about how the band is choosing to […]

Toby Uffindell-Phillips of Burning Shapes was gracious enough to grant an interview to MarsBands.com via a Skype call. In part 1 Toby talked about the origins of the band, their sound, and some influences. In part 2, Toby tells us about his school days, how he started taking an interest in music, and his process […]

Part 2 of 4 of our interview with Toby Uffindell-Phillips from Burning Shapes will be available Monday, October 31st. Among other things, in part 2 Toby tells us about his school days, how he started taking an interest in music, and the upcoming album. Don’t miss it!

Toby Uffindell-Phillips was kind enough to sit down with MarsBands.com and have a conversation with us on Skype. Burning Shapes is shiny and new, and they make great music that needs your attention. So, MarsBands.com is creating a series out of the Skype interview. If you haven’t heard of Burning Shapes yet, click HERE. Toby […]

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up about the next MarsBands interview. MarsBands.com had a nice little chat with Toby Uffindell-Phillips from the awesome band Burning Shapes. We will publish part 1 of the 4 part series starting next Monday, October 17th. You won’t want to miss it. It’s your chance to get to know […]

  I’ve done it. Chances are that you’ve done it. Millions of others have done it. I could be talking about a lot of things, but specifically, I’m talking about downloading music illegally. Since the first mp3 was illegally shared, it has spread like wildfire. Napster pretty much started it, although to be fair, there […]