News: lilo announce debut album and share ‘It’s Not the Same in Winter’
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from London duo lilo, whose last major release was 2023’s I Don’t Like My Chances on the Outside EP. Christie Gardner and Helen Dixon have since been at work on their debut album, and it’s been pencilled in for the end of March, after which the pair have …
Premiere: It’s ‘Feeding Time’ as Occurrence announce new album for next month
Having released a deluxe edition of Slow Violence last year, New York trio Occurrence have barely been out of the spotlight over the past few years, and they’ve got a whole new record on the way. The lead single from it is ‘Feeding Time’, on which Ken Urban ‘calls himself out on his bullshit, with …
Premiere: Taylor Acorn strips back a pair of fan favourites for an acoustic EP
She may only have released her most recent album Survival in Motion in September, but true to the album’s title, Nashville-via-Wellsboro’s Taylor Acorn shows no signs of slowing down. Capping off the year, the Tennessee transplant’s releasing a two-song EP of acoustic reworkings from her new record, featuring another take on title track ‘Greener’ and …
Premiere: The Afro Nick races the clock in ‘Get There Before Noon’
We’ve all been there: we’re racing against time to do something or go somewhere and struggling to motivate ourselves. Without wanting to make the obvious reference, sometimes you really need to just get it done. Nick Anastasakis wrote a song about that sense of urgency. The Greece-born and LA-based musician, who records as The Afro …
Premiere: Kappekoff readies new album and taps Pasha for ‘Late Night’
Oslo-based producer and bassist Magnus Falkenberg is preparing a new record, out two weeks tomorrow and serving as a companion piece to last year’s excellent New Spring; before then, he’s releasing one more single from the record, one of five collaborations that form the backbone of the album, and it could very well be the …
Premiere: Chiara Angelicola covers Aimee Mann’s ‘Save Me’, new EP out today
Back in August, we indicated there was further new music to come from the Guatemalan-Italian Chiara Angelicola, who hadn’t released anything as Bird Call since the pandemic outbreak put the skids on touring for her previous record, late 2019’s Year of the Dogfish. She broke her silence with ‘Tiny Transistor’, and today returns in earnest …
Premiere: Kappekoff’s new single ‘Warmth’ is a (Jimmy) Smash in waiting
Not familiar with Oslo’s Kappekoff? You should be; you’ve got about a month to get your stuff together before his new album arrives, and we’re premiering the new single to give you a hand with that. The new record’s a counterpart to last year’s Old Spring, and was trailed by ‘Right Back to Where We …
Premiere: Devarrow is lit up on new record opener ‘Lightning Bolt’; ‘Heart Shaped Rock’ out today
That looks like a very comfy fleece. It’s a big day for Graham Ereaux, who’s back with his second album of 2024, and overall his fourth as Devarrow. The Nova Scotian likes to keep busy; on April’s A Long & Distant Wave, he advocated for making art quickly and for the sheer joy of it; …
Premiere: Coleman bursts apart in surreal video for new single ‘Cali’
In his previous guise as Coast Modern band leader, Coleman Trapp displayed a serious knack for a hook, and it’s something on full display on his second new song in less than a month. Following on from reintroductory singles ‘Ahoy’ and ‘Knowing’, the California native draws from his surroundings on the agitated, restless ‘Cali’. Despite …
Premiere: Kit Major fights for self-acceptance on ‘Garbage Planet’, off October’s new EP
After releasing the loosie ‘Let Me In Your Band’ earlier this year, Kit Major has her sights set on bigger things, with the follow-up to 2022’s Vampire Saturday EP pencilled in for the end of October. The lead single from her forthcoming Love.Sick.Major. EP finds the Los Angeles artist doing her best to accept herself, …