Music
La La Love You – Pixies Play Intimate Manchester Show
The internet suffered a minor meltdown on morning of 18th July, as the news dropped that next day, Boston’s finest noise merchants would be playing a show at the iconic Band On The Wall, a newly refurbished 500 capacity venue in Manchester’s Northern Quarter. This, only 2 weeks after having played Castlefield Bowl, as part …
Track: Bonnie Trash – Have You Seen Her
After announcing the release of the duos debut album ‘Malocchio’ due 28th October via Hand Drawn Dracula. The duo have returned with new single ‘Have You Seen Her’. Speaking on the new single the band comment: “The music video plays out like a sci-fi involving an alternate dimension/timeline. Using the same idea of the malocchio …
EP Review: Be Kind Cadaver – Postpartum : Highly charged electro post-punk, made to dig deeper
Now here’s a band that don’t hold back. Brighton/Lewes electronic post punk duo Be Kind Cadaver (Daniel Hignell-Tully and Leroy Brown) grab at real issues and wring them out through their highly charged, shell shocked anti-pop songs. Their debut EP ‘Postpartum’, available from 21st July on the forward thinking Difficult Art And Music label, probes …
Premiere: Brighton Indie 4 Piece Comforts Shine On New Single ‘Mixed Signals’
Brighton 4-piece Comforts demonstrate their ability to capture a vibrancy and an uplifting aura with beautifully placed instrumentation and an affecting air of melancholy on the new single ‘Mixed Signals’. We’re very excited to be running the premiere! Dreamy-indie at it’s very best, ‘Mixed Signals’ blends modulation and reverb tinted, interweaving guitar lines which float …
EP Review: Jaws Of Life – Jaws Of Life Mini Mix Tape
Comprised of Mitch Bock (guitar & vocals), Rhys Anderson (guitar), Steve French (bass & backing vocals), and Tim Tittley (drums), South Wales pop punk foursome Jaws Of Life, have gathered together three tracks for their debut EP, Jaws Of Life Mini Mix Tape. Three tracks that are set to showcase their bright and intelligent music. The band remark about the creation of the EP: “Over lockdown, …
Premiere: MOLTENO Shares Stunning New Video For ‘Moonlight’
Having made a name for her unique Dream-Pop stylings, London based MOLTENO is back with the stunning new video for ‘Moonlight’. An entrancing Daisy Moseley directed video which perfectly captures the etherial, otherworldly nature of the track, the hypnotic visual serves to give a fitting representation of the lucid dream which is described within the …
Live Review: The Came, They Saw, They Conquered. Starcrawler live in Sydney 20.07.2022
Starcrawler blitz Sydney with their total music onslaught and hyperkinetic onstage antics
News: Ash announces ‘Teenage Wildlife Tour’ for Australia – celebrating 30 years together.
The formidable trio Ash have just announced an Australian leg of their ‘Teenage Wildlife Tour’ which is celebrating their thirty years together. Famously making a massive impact with the album ‘1977’ as teenagers (the title referencing the birth year of two members as well as the release date of Star Wars), the band has continued …
Track: New Zealand’s MACEY unveils the smooth and bucolic sounds of ‘Summer Grunge’ and announces EP ‘Lovers: Side A’.
‘Summer Grunge’ from Auckland-based artist MACEY is a smooth and shimmering track which has an easy sibilant and aquatic flow evoking images of balmy sun-soaked afternoons in a green and pleasant land. The instrumentation provides a string-laden billowing dream pop pillow supporting the velvet soft vocals that hypnotise. MACEY is the nom de plume for …
Track: New Zealand’s magnificent Fazerdaze makes a welcome return after 5 years with the melodic anthem ‘Come Apart’, and the world is a better place.
It’s been five long years since Fazerdaze released the brilliant debut album ‘Morningside’ through the legendary Flying Nun Records – an album that still resonates after so long, and which still has a permanent place on my turntable (read my review here). The result of such a blinding debut, however, took its toll: something that burns …