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See: Dan Croll releases new video for ‘Bad Boy’, plus US/UK tour dates
Dan Croll, the 26 year old über-talented, multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter from Newcastle-under-Lyme, returns with the new single ‘Bad Boy’ from his forthcoming album ‘Emerging Adulthood’. The single and album are both released on July 21st on Communion Records. ‘Bad Boy’ is written by Croll and produced by Ben Allen (Animal Collective, Cee Lo Green) and like …
News: Cabbage announce September / October headline tour dates.
Following on from the record store day release of ‘Young, Dumb & Full of…’ which collected the bands first three EP’s together, Mossley five piece indie/punks Cabbage have announced details of a headline tour, coming your way in September. They will be supported by Doncaster’s The Blinders, Liverpool’s Queen Zee and The Sasstones, and Proletariat, …
See: Vukovi release new video for Weirdo (plus tour dates)
Scottish neon-rock band Vukovi release new music video for their single ‘Weirdo’, which features on their self-titled debut album, released last month. The song itself highlights the battle between fitting in or standing out, and the consequences that may arise from either option. Do you lose yourself in the crowd, or get bullied for being a …
News: Dark Mofo Festival
Over the past few years, the city of Hobart in the Australian state of Tasmania has been transformed by the building of a privately-funded art museum called the Museum of New and Old Art (MONA) on the banks of the Derwent River. The museum has achieved international recognition for its innovative and eclectic collection and …
Track: Secret Shine – For You, plus new album news
Secret Shine’s new release “There is Only Now” is a classic brew of shoegaze and dream pop – elements of Disintegration-era The Cure mixed in with a clearer and more distinct My Bloody Valentine or Lush. It is an album filled with waves of sonic reverb and chorus, with arpeggiated synthesisers interweaving with a more …
Track: Sprinters – Figure it out, plus tour news
Is it possible to do melancholy and good time indie pop? Yeah, course it is, just check out ‘Figure it out’ the new track taken from Manchester’s Sprinters self-titled debut album, which drops on May 5th on vinyl & digital platforms via Icecapades (Slowcoaches, Sex Hands, Joey Fourr etc..). The brain child of Wigan born, …
News: Fazerdaze announce European tour dates
New Zealand indie quartet Fazerdaze are about to release an album, Morningside. It’s a record that has an evocative mix of angular, chiming music and ultimate pop sensibility. What is even more astounding is that Fazerdale frontwoman Amelia Murray wrote, recorded and produced the album by herself. The three singles released so far perfectly capture …
News: From Hull to Texas to Hull. Life return for their biggest hometown show yet at the Welly Club
Following extensive plays on 6Music and Radio 1, LIFE just got back from Texas after smashing a couple of shows for SXSW like cowboys on cactus juice and they’re calling on all their “LED brothers and sisters” to join them for [POP] PARTY 2 at THE WELLY CLUB, Hull. In January last year the first …
News: Dan Croll announces new album Emerging Adulthood plus UK live dates
Following on from his lauded 2014 debut Sweet Disarray, Dan Croll has announced the follow up. Called Emerging Adulthood, it out on July 21st via Communion Records, and contains previous singles ‘One of Us’ and ‘Swim’ as well as the recent ‘Away from Today’. The album was recorded in Atlanta with producer Ben Allen, about …
Track: Aimee Mann – Patient Zero, plus album news
Aimee Mann has consistently delivered beautiful and thought provoking since her debut solo album ‘Whatever’. It’s hard to believe that was over twenty years ago, but it’s still a record that keeps popping to the surface again and again in my listening material, and still sounds as fresh as the day it was released. Much …