The Joy Formidable’s new album AAARTH will be released on the 28th Sept via Hassle Records. The latest single from it is The Wrong Side, a lurching, hulking behemoth of a track that aligns all of the band’s best qualities – a crushing, intense rhythm, remarkably inventive, snaking guitar work, military percussion, and a soaring vocal melody. Give it a spin and watch the video below. … Continue reading The Joy Formidable – The Wrong Side
Peddling a nice line in folky Americana, with a plaintive, yearning undertone, New York four-piece Yankee Longstraw have just released a new digital single via Bandcamp titled Barbota Gatote / Ann Marie. We have the ‘A’ side for you to stream below. Just click through to purchase for $2. Continue reading Introducing >>> Yankee Longstraw
Slaves – Chokehold Sleaford Mods – Stick In A Five And Go Spiritualized – Here It Comes (The Road) Let’s Go Interpol – Number 10 All The Witches – Fishbelly 86 Onions Mutual Benefit – Come To Pass Ron Gallo – It’s All Gonna Be OK Dirty Lungs – Dumps Like A Truck Maxband – Means To An End Muncie Girls – Locked Up … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Ah, the wait is over. After five long years, Phosphorescent (who topped our Best of the Past Ten Years listings earlier this year) are back with details of a new album C’est La Vie (out on Dead Oceans on the 5th October), and a new single New Birth in New England. There will also be three live dates in the UK in October. The record … Continue reading Phosphorescent Return – First New Music For Five Years
A round up of some sweet new videos. Shimmering psych-pop from Whyte Horses, some charming Syd Barrett inspired bedroom lo-fi from Tiny Eyes, gentle pastoral folk from Queen of the Meadow, rambling, soulful Americana from Valley Maker, vintage outlaw bluegrass country from the Tennessee Stiffs, rural fuzz-folk from Stray Owls, classic indie-pop from Doe, anthemic, heavy duty indie from Tired All The Time, and last, but … Continue reading New Videos Round Up
Last year Brooklyn’s Grim Streaker released their explosive first single Guts, and a highly-praised debut EP, Minority Girl, and now they have shared new single Mojito, a summer-appropriate song inspired by a drunken night abroad, drinking one too many mojitos on the way to a hidden cave bar in Cuba. We’re loving their high octane, snotty, in-your-face punk topped with snarling, caustic vocals. Stream it here. … Continue reading Introducing >>> Grim Streaker
The Naked Tungs are a four-piece indie rock band from Austin, Texas and will release their second EP, Distract Myself on the 24th August. You can check out Crossing from it below, which melds grungey garage guitars with slightly woozy, drawn out vocals and a psych-rock sensibility to create a most satisfying listen. It calls to mind a slightly more energetic Coke Weed and anyone … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Naked Tungs
Tim Cohen of the Fresh & Onlys has announced the forthcoming release of a new solo album, The Modern World on September 28 via Sinderlyn. He says of the first single, Goodness, “like many of my songs, ‘Goodness’ spills forth as a plea of sorts. A mixture between happy and sad. A contented malaise. Throw in the dissonant synth stabs over the sing-along chorus. It just feels … Continue reading Tim Cohen – Goodness
Protomartyr & Spray Paint – Corinthian Leather Mass Gothic – How I Love You Houndmouth – Golden Age Iron & Wine – What Hurts Worse Kevin Devine – Prehistoric (Now Now cover) Swearin’ – Grow Into A Ghost The Molochs – Too Lost In Love Continue reading Seven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Indiepop institution Fortuna POP! quit the scene last year, going out in a blaze of glory with five days of sold out London shows by artists spanning their twenty year tenure, before label owner Sean Price fled Brexit Britain for a new life in Tokyo, Japan. And frankly who can blame him. That would have been it for Fortuna POP!, were it not for the … Continue reading So Farewell Fortuna POP! with the Fortuna POP! Allstars
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