indie rock
TRACK: Neighbourhood Watch – ‘Focus Up’: Toronto quintet telling indie-rock tales of growing up
NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH are a young five-piece outta Toronto with a really simple mission: they love making music about growing up. Clear, concise and ready in your ‘hood with melody and storytelling. Singer-guitarist Tristan Surman – who’s joined in the Neigbourhood Watch, keeping an eye on your endz, by pianist Tyler Moretti, bassist Thom Elgie, lead …
Track: Sonder Bombs release new single, K
Cleveland’s Sonder Bombs have released a new single, ‘K’, the third taken from their forthcoming album Clothbound following on from ‘Crying Is Cool’ and ‘The One About You’. K wears its indie rock cloak quite comfortably, but there’s a little prog-pop embroidery here and a hardcore / metal lining there. Mostly though its just a …
Track: The Hold Steady release new single Family Farm ahead of eighth studio album due in 2021
Slightly behind the curve, but never one to ignore the stuff we love, The Hold Steady have returned with a new single ‘Family Farm’, taken from their forthcoming eighth studio album, Open Door Policy, out on their own Positive Jams label via Thirty Tigers on February 19th 2021. Of the singe, guitarist Craig Finn says …
SEE: Tamar Aphek – ‘Drive’: a psych-blues stormer from Tel Aviv
ALREADY something of a guitar goddess in her native Tel Aviv, Kill Rock Stars, that seminal imprint that’s hosted the like of Elliott Smith, The Decemberists, Sleater-Kinney and more, have tempted Tamar Aphek through their doors, the better that we should swoon for her. And once you’ve climbed aboard for her new single, “Drive”, you …
Premiere: Mike Clerk channels his inner Bruce Lee in new Keep Movin’ video
Fife singer-songwriter Mike Clerk, formerly lead singer of The Lost Generation, has returned to music in 2020, buoyed by both a hugely successful kickstarter campaign and also the reaction to his single ‘Thought Of Fools’. We’re absolutely delighted to premiere the lifelong martial arts fan‘s (and practising martial artist) new video for his latest single …
TRACK: The Native – ‘Frontline’: airy third from Plymothian risers
THEY’RE barely into their twenties; with the ‘rona gobbling up all the live fun, they’ve yet to do any scale of national tour at all; yet with just a brace of singles under their belts, Plymothian indie rock quintet The Native seem to be on the fast track, building up a really devoted following via …
Track: The Anchoress – Show Your Face
The Anchoress (aka Catherine Anne Davies) is set to release her second album ‘The Art of Losing’, on March 5th 2021 via Kscope. ‘Show Your Face’ is the first single to be taken from the album featuring guitar from Manic Street Preachers’ James Dean Bradfield (who also sings a duet on the album) and drums from Sterling Campbell (David Bowie, Duran Duran). A disco …
Track: Exit Kid – Working Stiff
Documenting the trials and tribulations of life on the road, London’s Exit Kid harness their trademark grunge, Britpop and slacker-pop influences with blistering new cut ‘Working Stiff’, taken from the band’s forthcoming ‘Garden EP’ out November 27th. “I wrote ‘Working Stiff’ a few years ago and it has always been one of our favourite songs to play live”, details frontman Emre Türkmen. …
Track: Algiers release expanded reimagining of Cleveland (20/20)
Taken from their 2017 album ‘The Underside of Power’, Algiers have released a hugely expanded version (to 50 minutes no less). On the original, vocalist Franklin’s James Fisher names the black people killed by police or who died in extraordinarily suspicious ways and who’s deaths were explained away as ‘suicide’. In this new version, the …
Track: Guided By Voices – Mr. Child
Ohio’s most prolific indie rockers, Guided By Voices, have teased their 32nd album, ‘Styles We Paid For’, with a punchy new song called ‘Mr. Child’. A statement from the band explains that the song is about a Peter Pan-style figure who refuses to grow up. It showcases the playing skills of bassist Mark Shue and …