The Cult Of Dom Keller – Shambhala Is On Fire

I have only just got my hearing back after seeing The Cult Of Dom Keller shred the room at The Great Escape – just in time in fact for their new single Shambhala Is On Fire! It is a scorching slab of experimental goth-tinged psych that fans of Swans and The Icarus Line will find plenty to entertain themselves with here, but (whisper it quietly) so too will all those … Continue reading The Cult Of Dom Keller – Shambhala Is On Fire

New Video: Angel Olsen – Shut Up Kiss Me

Having announced her third studio album My Woman – out on September 2nd via Jagjaguwar – Angel Olsen has shared the video for excellent new single Shut Up Kiss Me. Directed by Olsen herself, the video encapsulates everything that’s captivating about her and her music – fiery, yet beguilingly playful, whilst the song itself has a nervy, grungy quality to it with an edge of desperation. … Continue reading New Video: Angel Olsen – Shut Up Kiss Me

New From Vomitface

The charmingly named New Jersey trio Vomitface have announced details of their debut album, Hooray For Me, which sees a release on the 26th August. The album is chock full full of sharp, deceptively catchy songs, each delivered with a self deprecating smirk – you can check out the booming drums and buzzsaw guitars of the first single Senior Pictures below.   Continue reading New From Vomitface

Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Well, on this gloomiest of weeks a little ray of sunshine perhaps with some new music gathered up from the best of the last seven days (oh the irony). So while Johnson and Gove revel in the toxic slime of their own making and the Labour Party implodes, hit play on nine new songs from the likes of Devendra Banhart, ShitKid, Wymond Miles, The Wind-Up Birds and covers … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

WTF!

Today is a sad day. A day I am sad to say I feel embarrassed to be “English”. A day I feel impotent rage at the Tory party’s supreme arrogance that constant austerity measures and cuts after cuts after cuts aimed at the poorest and the weakest wouldn’t leave people feeling ever more disenfranchised and disconnected from the world. A day I feel impotent rage … Continue reading WTF!

NOTS Announce New Album

NOTS were one of the best bands I saw at The Great Escape – berating a half-full room of slightly hungover festival goers early in the afternoon with a short, pulsating set of brilliantly fierce and raw punk rock that somehow blended the Ramones with Television and Sonic Youth and then added a dash of Hawkwind. Their second album will be with us via the … Continue reading NOTS Announce New Album

Shovels & Rope – Little Seeds

Husband and wife duo Shovels & Rope write literate, Southern Gothic infused songs of a uniformly high quality – one that sets them apart from the vast majority of their contemporaries. They will release their new album Little Seeds on their new label New West Records on 7th October. With song titles such as Botched Execution, Mourning Song, The Last Hawk and subject matters ranging from Alzheimer’s … Continue reading Shovels & Rope – Little Seeds

Drive-By Truckers Announce New Album

Drive-By Truckers will celebrate twenty years together with the release of a new album American Band. They have shared Surrender Under Protest from it and Patterson Hood has had some pretty powerful stuff to say about the inspiration behind the record. “These are crazy times and we have made a record steeped in this moment of history that we’re all trying to live through. We’ve always considered … Continue reading Drive-By Truckers Announce New Album