Premiere: maeve & quinn dream of a better life in new video for ‘Stuck Inside’
The debut album from maeve & quinn – the Chicago/Alaska duo of twin sisters Maris & Bryce O’Tierney – is seriously good and an absolute must for any folk-pop fans, especially since it tips its hat to the likes of Sharon Van Etten, Snail Mail, Maggie Rogers and Big Thief; you know the vibes – …
Premiere: Eldridge Rodriguez look inward on new single ‘The Strange Things That Happen to People’
Last month, Boston band Eldridge Rodriguez returned with news of a new album and a lead single from said new album, both of which reaffirm why Slightest of Treason was one of 2020’s most slept-on indie rock records. It didn’t catch fire for Obvious Reasons, but the follow-up deserves to, and the band’s latest offering …
Premiere: Careful explores painful intimacy on bare-bones new single ‘I had a secret’
Last month, the San Francisco-based Eric Lindley resumed activity as Careful after a hiatus of nearly a decade, announcing his intention to release a new EP in September. Today, Lindley shares the collection’s stripped-back second single. If ‘I had a secret’ sounds like a forgotten relic of another time, smothered in cassette artefacts and lo-fi …
Premiere: Ashlynn Malia shares lyric video for ‘Feels So Good’
Earlier this year, Los Angeles-based artist Ashlynn Malia released a six-song EP called navigating galaxies, songs written to exist in the voice memo stage. A refreshingly intimate look into her creation process, it signalled that there was more to come from Malia sooner rather than later – while it remains to be seen if she’ll …
Premiere: LEONE take their power back on title track from forthcoming new EP, ‘GTFOH’
Last month, Brooklyn band LEONE got our attention with ‘I Wanna Be’, a taster of the new EP they’re putting out in just under a month. It was accompanied by an intense video in which vocalist Richie Leone is screwed over in a game of poker as a metaphor for trust issues, something the trio …
Premiere: the world famous tease debut album with bubbly teaser track ‘Hollywood Pawn’
What do you do when you move across the country and still don’t feel at home? If you’re the world famous, you form a band and write songs about being out of place in Los Angeles. The quintet is effectively a band of Massachusetts transplants, led by Will Harris, adjusting to culture shock and trying …
Premiere: Hallie Spoor laments missed connections on stirring EP lead single ‘Diamond Ring’
When last we heard from Brooklynite Hallie Spoor, she’d released her most recent EP New Ground into a world that was about to be turned upside down by a pandemic. It only makes sense that she waited nearly three whole years to make her next move, putting out ‘Heart Like Thunder’ as 2022 drew to …
Premiere: MIDNIGHTCHOIR heralds new album release with emotive closing track ‘Rising Tide’
Back in May, New York’s MIDNIGHTCHOIR (the solo project of Brooklyn’s Patrick Bobilin, sometimes assisted by Sarah Simon) announced his first new record in 7 years, and those were indeed a pretty eventful 7 years, such that we wondered if he’d return to making music at all. Inspired by his time running for office in …
Premiere: Brooklyn band FORAGER are fed up with city life on expressive new single ‘Hello to the Kiddies’
Well, doing each other’s hair in a press photo is definitely different, but that’s just FORAGER‘s thing. The Brooklyn trio put themselves on our radar back in May with the absolutely essential ‘Fuji or a Trek’, the lead single from their debut album, and we were starting to think we wouldn’t get another pre-release single, …
News: London punks Tripsun push back against colonial attitudes and racism on new single ‘Civilised’
They may not be a new band, but it’s a new era for London quartet Tripsun, who you may know as Triple Sundae – they snipped the old name in half last year, poking their heads out of debut album mode to serve up ‘Chemstrains’. Fast forward almost a year, and said debut album is …