Category: Alternative

Alternative, Americana, Indie, Music, Post Punk, Rock

Destroyer Announce New Album Have We Met & Share New Single Crimson Tide

Dan Bejar has announced that his thirteenth album as Destroyer, titled Have We Met, will be released on 31st January via Dead Oceans. To coincide, a London headline show at Village Underground has been announced for 5th May, with more tour news to follow. The first single is Crimson Tide, a six-minute journey that sits rightfully alongside previous Destroyer epics. In typical Bejar fashion, it is … Continue reading Destroyer Announce New Album Have We Met & Share New Single Crimson Tide

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Alternative, Garage, Indie, Music, Psychedelic, Rock

Shrouded Strangers – Locust Heart

It’s been seven years since our last Shrouded Strangers post, but good things come to he who waits… And so it is with their new album Night Prancing, which according to them is “the soundtrack to an unrealised film script chronicling the adventures of a late-1950s surfer gang (the “Night Prancers”) in the sleepy coastal hamlet of Seaview, Washington.” Watch the video for opening track Locust … Continue reading Shrouded Strangers – Locust Heart

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Alternative, Music, Punk, Rock

GURU – Don’t Talk / LTD

A pretty much perfect companion piece to our earlier post today from Blood Vision… Brighton punks GURU have a new double A side digital single to promote – Don’t Talk / LTD actually saw a release yesterday and we’re loving it. Don’t Talk slams out of the gate with nary a backwards glance and proceeds to accelerate to warp speed on the back of some potent punk riffs … Continue reading GURU – Don’t Talk / LTD

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Introducing >>> Blood Visions

Hailing from Northampton, Blood Visions play the sort of no holds barred, unapologetic punk rock that all too often comes across as little more than weakly derivative of what has gone before. Thankfully not so with new single 01604ever, which is taken from their upcoming self-titled EP, this five-piece avoid all the usual pitfalls and best of all have taken the time and trouble to build … Continue reading Introducing >>> Blood Visions

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Alternative, Indie, Music, Post Punk, Rock

Introducing >>> TELGATE

Cardiff based aggro-Glam band, TELGATE will unleash their blistering lipstick-smeared debut single Cherrytight this November, a debut statement from a band that are starting to stand out in the Welsh music scene. This is music which is unapologetically queer, loud and brutally honest; Cherrytight lights the touch paper with thudding baselines, bombastic drums, caustic gyrating guitars and vocals that drip with attitude and sexuality. Dive … Continue reading Introducing >>> TELGATE

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Alternative, Indie, Music, Pop, Post Punk, Rock

Brooke Bentham – All My Friends Are Drunk

  Brooke Bentham’s new single, All My Friends Are Drunk is a song for lost youth and young adulthood. With influences somewhere between Mazzy Star, Yo La Tengo, Sparklehorse and early Angel Olsen, the young singer/songwriter writes sharp and eloquent songs about her experiences and this one captures “that wishful longing for what was” in the self-destructivity of her and her peers. It is a truly exemplary display of … Continue reading Brooke Bentham – All My Friends Are Drunk

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Alternative, Metal, Music, Psychedelic, Rock

Black Mountain – What’s Your Conquest

Black Mountain have shared a new standalone single titled What’s Your Conquest? Although separate from their new album, Destroyer, released earlier this year via Jagjaguwar, What’s Your Conquest? makes a might fine companion piece, being in-step with the same vivacious energy, and features some pretty lively guitar and surging synths. Stream it here.     Continue reading Black Mountain – What’s Your Conquest

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Alternative, Americana, Folk, Indie, Music, Post Punk, Psychedelic, Rock

Uncut Magazine’s Wilco Covers

Uncut’s free cover disc this month is a reinterpreting of seventeen Wilco songs by the likes of Cate Le Bon, Mountain Man, Whitney, Low, Sharon Van Etten and many others. All but one were specially recorded for the CD and there are some cracking versions amongst them. Here is a taste of the offerings from Parquet Courts, Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile.       … Continue reading Uncut Magazine’s Wilco Covers

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Alternative, Americana, Country, Folk, Indie, Music, Rock

Lightning Dust – Competitive Depression

Vancouver, BC duo Lightning Dust’s outstanding new album Spectre arrived in stores last Friday, via Western Vinyl. The album was preceded by singles Run Away, Led Astray, A Pretty Picture (featuring Stephen Malkmus on guitar), and Devoted To, and now the band have shared the video for slacker anthem Competitive Depression, which put simply, is yet another fine example of their phenomenal songwriting. Watch it here.   … Continue reading Lightning Dust – Competitive Depression

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