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Album Review: Spoon – Lucifer on the Sofa

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Album cover for Spoon’s Lucifer on the Sofa

Austin, Texas rock’n’rollers Spoon have released their 10th album – Lucifer on the Sofa – on Matador Records and it’s a blistering, thumping, rocking album that Spoon lovers will adore and those new to Spoon will too. It’s the first set of songs in over a decade that the band have recorded in Austin and was written and recorded …

Today, German punk/rock titans Kärbholz reveal the new video “Der Schwarze Schwan.” The track is the second to be revealed from the band’s highly anticipated new album, Kontra., set for international release on March 26th via Metalville Records. See & hear Kärbholz‘s “Der Schwarze Schwan” video in its entirety here: Says the band about this new video, “‘The Black Swan’ tells of what happens when grief becomes …

Norwegian rockers Death By Unga Bunga have announced the release of their new album ‘Heavy Male Insecurity’, out on 12th February via Jansen Records.  They have now shared ‘Live Until I Die’, the third single taken from the upcoming LP. Following rock banger ‘Not Like The Others’ and summer stomper ‘Trouble’, the new track is, according to the band, …

The official video for The Rolling Stones’ new track Scarlet, featuring Emmy-nominated actor Paul Mescal, who starred in critically acclaimed television series ‘Normal People’.  A love letter to ‘Scarlet’, the video was directed by directing duo ‘Us’ and filmed with a socially distanced shoot at London’s iconic Claridge’s hotel. Scarlet, the previously unheard Stones track featuring Jimmy Page and …

It was some time ago when I had my first introduction to Desert Mountain Tribe, with the release of their self-titled EP back in 2014 and a night of snapped strings and sound issues to a smattering of people in Manchester’s Dry Bar. All that being said, the guys were complete professionals and persevered. It …

Dalston Kingsland, half-eight on a dreary Thursday night, the capital greasily covered with filthy spring rain. This is not at all in keeping with the spirit of the record we’re here to receive, not at all.  Fortunately The Fruitful Earth couldn’t give a flying fuck what it’s like outside. The Servant Jazz Quarters stage is …

We’ve written about Los Angeles‘ Street Joy before, here. The duo, Jason DeMayo on lead vocal, guitar and bass, and Scott Zimmerman on drums and backing vocals, deal a winning hand in old time, feelgood Rock n Roll. It has this whiff of nostalgia about it, the sort that brings to mind those sepia tinged …

Until I met my wife, I’d never heard of skiffle.  To me, Lonnie Donegan was a weird name that cropped up with disconcerting regularity in the Mojo crossword. I first heard “Rock Island Line” when her Uncle Joe unleashed it on stage at a dinner dance. From there it has been a slow introduction to …