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 …
Premiere: The Mortal Prophets rework ‘Down On Me’ into electro-blues banger; new album out next month
Continuing his tradition of putting his stamp on standards and classics from across decades of the blues, John Beckmann’s forthcoming second album as leader of New York’s The Mortal Prophets is a staggering 70% covers. Not that you’d know it, for the most part – these songs have been gutted and reformed to the point …
Premiere: JD Pinkus & Tall Tall Trees mark the release of collaborative album with ‘Can’t C#’ video
Today sees the release of the weird and wonderful debut album from JD Pinkus (The Butthole Surfers) and Mike Savino (Tall Tall Trees), whose combined psychedelic alt-banjo wizardry may prick the ears of even those not inclined toward anything to do with bluegrass. Ponder Machine is a journey, and it’s one which is perhaps best …
Premiere: Eldridge Rodriguez share new song ‘A Feeling That Won’t Go Away’ and announce new album
Like so many other bands, 2020 should have been a big year for Eldridge Rodriguez. Bostonian Cameron Keiber had previously used this outlet as a pseudonym for solo work outside of The Beatings, who broke up the previous year, but his fourth album under the Eldridge Rodriguez banner – and second with a full band; …
Premiere: Malick Koly lines up debut solo EP with the energetic new single ‘Eaux Rouges’
He may be primarily known as a drummer, not to mention come from a jazz background, but New Yorker Malick Koly isn’t especially interested in defining himself by his limits. His forthcoming debut solo EP is full of surprises – his most recent single ‘Heaven For Now’ pared things back for an acoustic song that …
Premiere: Camp Bedford mark the end of Pride month with a call for solidarity in ‘Our America’
Back in March, Brooklyn trio Camp Bedford released their fantastic debut EP So Often & So Sweet, a short but impactful collection that put them on the map as a folk-pop band to watch. We didn’t expect to be hearing from them again so soon – they’re releasing a new single to mark the end …
Premiere: Eric Lindley returns as Careful with first new music in almost a decade, ‘Promise’
Here’s a welcome surprise for a Thursday evening – you may have thought Eric Lindley had hung it up as Careful, but life events simply got in the way for a while. He’s a father now, and such seismic changes often make it difficult to find a way back into making music. Throw in the …
Premiere: LEONE search for the romantic ideal on the darkly seductive new cut ‘I Wanna Be’
In the video for their new single, Brooklyn trio LEONE put it all on red, and lose, badly, as a trip to a dingy casino has consequences. On first glance it has absolutely nothing to do with the lyrical content of ‘I Wanna Be’, but then you remember that betting and gambling are often used …
Premiere: New York’s Bandits on the Run are boxed in and listening to the ‘Radio’ on effervescent new single
What do you get when you mix together three lead singers, guitar, cello, a suitcase drum and various toy instruments? Nobody knows for sure but it’d probably sound something quite like Brooklyn trio Bandits on the Run, who are opening for Deer Tick and the Avett Brothers at Summerfest in Wisconsin this weekend. A good …
Premiere: JD Pinkus and Tall Tall Trees are ‘Afterlifers’ in surreal new video
About a month ago, JD Pinkus of the Butthole Surfers and Mike Savino of Tall Tall Trees announced the collaborative album Ponder Machine, a record on which traditional bluegrass takes a detour into something psychedelic and, at times, otherworldly. It’s quite a trip, and not what you would expect from its description. It goes to …