So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu … you know the rest. I’m off to skip over the mountains, Swiss Outpost, but I do promise to Skype… Anyway (surely one of my favourite refrains?), it’s a New Year and time for me to bid goodbye to TFI and my Friday night soubriquet. With a few gig dates already booked for the months ahead, I may get … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s Last TFI Friday (11th January)
In support of their forthcoming fifth album Coming Out Of The Fog, Baltimore’s Arbouretum have announced a European tour, beginning February 20th at The Prince Albert in Brighton and Corsica Studios in London the following day before heading over to Ireland. Coming Out Of The Fog has already begun to continue Arbouretum’s critical acclaim ahead of its release. While retaining the rewarding and slow-burning tracks … Continue reading New Track From Arbouretum & European Tour
Watch the video for Skinny Lister’s rollicking Rollin’ Over, or try Mayday Radio’s New York based update on the Don Quixote story. Finally we have the brilliantly off-kilter psych-pop weirdness of Foxygen’s San Francisco. a a a a a Continue reading Videos of the Day: Skinny Lister || Mayday Radio || Foxygen
On a day when Echo & The Bunnymen fanatic Barry-Sean is foremost in our thoughts, it seems somewhat appropriate to get details of a new musical venture from Bunnymen founder members Will Sergeant and Les Pattinson. Calling themselves Poltergeist, they are a kind of instrumental space-rock project and Sargeant rather cryptically says “We want to try and get away from the traditional band format of … Continue reading Introducing >>> Poltergeist
Watch Milagres new video for Glowing Mouth (and grab a free download of unreleased track Quiet Street). We also have 80 seconds of tight, aggressive, garage punk from Canadian veterans The Steve Adamyk Band and in stark contrast, some heartfelt Americana from singer-songwriter Sarah Syms and her video for new single Dance On My Grave. Finally we have the video for Magician’s Assistant and a … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Milagres || The Steve Adamyk Band || Sarah Syms || Airstrip
The Vestals hail from South Wales and mine the classic vein of bittersweet indie pop that can be traced from The June Brides and The Wedding Present through to modern day exponents like the Pains Of Being Pure At Heart. On February 11th Killing Moon Records will release their debut single of glorious, nostalgia tinged, melancholia – the two tracks, Perfect Pain and Seventeen, effortlessly reflect past … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Vestals
Venerable and melancholic indie veterans Low are marking their twentieth anniversary by releasing their tenth record, The Invisible Way, on Sub Pop Records on the 18th March. Produced by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, the record is if anything, even starker then previous releases. It tackles large issues too, “the songs are about intimacy, the drug war, the class war, plain old war war, archaeology and love,” says founding … Continue reading First Song From Low’s Tenth Record…
North London’s Wolf Alice are set to release their debut single on 11th February through Chess Club Records in the form of Fluffy. Far removed from their folk-beginnings, Fluffy rocks with the kind of ballsy and unabashed nonchalance that we haven’t heard in a good long while. Breaking from a groove-laden smack of distorted guitars and thumping drums, Ellie Rowsell’s tender vocals then take centre stage as … Continue reading Introducing >>> Wolf Alice
Videos today are Popstrangers hard driving Antipodean indie rock, a gorgeous acoustic performance of California Bound by Jemez Mountain Hawkz frontman D. Lee Waggoner and the reverby surf guitars and loose percussion of Hit Me Up from Sean Bones. a a a a Continue reading Videos of the Day: Popstrangers || Jemez Mountain Hawkz || Sean Bones
The Dirty Nil are back! This time it’s a split vinyl with their friends Northern Primitive released by Indoor Shoes. They sent some basic participation instructions: “Listen to Zombie Eyed at a motherfucking loud volume.” We suggest you do as they say… It is free for one month via their Bandcamp page or better still go there and order the vinyl. a a Continue reading New Dirty Nil Single
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