A final day building up the step count trudging between venues. This time choosing to start at a free all day gig at Bleach which was not an official GE event, and was nearly 3,000 steps away, but worth it all the same for Nots and Nap Eyes. The former, a blistering all-female foursome from Tennessee, peeled what paint was left from the walls and the … Continue reading The Great Escape – Day 3
If one thing really irritates me then it is the bloke (it is always a bloke) at the back of the gig who, at the end, opines how the band “were a bit too samey”, or they “didn’t quite get it”, or it “was OK, but nothing special”, or they’ve “seen it done better by other bands” and then goes on to list a load … Continue reading The Great Escape – Day 2
I travelled down to sunny Brighton in the company of Test Match Special for a second visit to The Great Escape – sadly this time without the company of Chris T Popper, or anyone else for that matter. After parking in a dingy basement NCP, which could easily have been the setting for a murder in a gritty crime drama, I arrived at my (admittedly budget) hotel … Continue reading The Great Escape – Day 1
Having previously shared the twisted indie-punk of No Sleep by Cambridge’s Grieving last month we now have Ownership for your listening pleasure. If anything, it is even better with needling guitars and raw, dual vocals. Have a listen. Continue reading More From Grieving
With their blend of Latino rhythms combined with garage rock, psychedelic guitars and multilingual chants, Sudakistan are releasing their first piece of new music since the release of excellent album Caballo Negro last November. The new single is called Illegal, and is a comment on the European refugee crisis and the situation for refugees travelling without papers. Have a listen. Continue reading Sudakistan – Illegal
We seem to have posted a lot of tunes this week with three Nickel In The Jukebox round ups and here are twelve more – all newly minted this week. From the return of the Stone Roses to the gothic blues of Adia Victoria and the indie rock of Catfish & The Bottlemen and taking in songs about Bob Dylan, God and a cover of the … Continue reading Twelve Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
No less than three Nickel in the Jukebox posts this week. Check out ten more songs from all walks of life and decide… hit or miss. Third Sound – Never Catch Her Again [RIYL: Psych-rock, Jesus & Mary Chain, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club ] Hot Showers – Boys (Neighborhood) [RIYL: Garage-psych, Smith Westerns, Harlem] Magic Potion – Jelly [RIYL: Slacker-pop, Mac DeMarco, Kurt Vile] Spain – … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 17)
Having shared a couple of tracks from Liverpool’s Beach Skulls back in March we now have Baby’s A Liar for you. It is another garage pop nugget par excellence and is taken from their recently released album Slow Grind. Stream it below. Buy from Bandcamp here. Continue reading More From Beach Skulls
Outblinker – Farrokh Bulsara [RIYL: Modern Krautrock, CAN, Fuck Buttons] The Weeping Willows – River of Gold [RIYL: Gothic Americana, Tom Waits, Brown Bird] Rick Redbeard – Wild Young Country [RIYL: Folk, Bill Callahan, Leonard Cohen] Otherkin – Yeah I Know [RIYL: Punk, The Ramones, Slaves] L.T. Leif – Fine Dust Rising [RIYL: Indie-folk, The Microphones, Angel Olsen] Peach … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol. 16)
One of the bands we’re most looking forward to seeing at the Great Escape next week is Man Of Moon whose debut track The Road made the top echelons of our Best of list for 2015. We’ve previously shared Sign from new EP Medicine and now we have I Run, another brilliant example of their insistent, pulsating psychedelia that ebbs and flows and mesmerises. Listen … Continue reading Man Of Moon – I Run
The Mad Mackerel 