See: Darwin releases visuals for “Unkind Lover” feat. David J (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets)
Santa Rosa-based alternative pop artist Darwin presents his new single ‘Unkind Lover’, which features David J (Love and Rockets, Bauhaus) on harmonica, Dustin Heald on guitar noise and ambience, and producer/collaborator Julian Shah-Tayler (a.k.a. The Singularity). Darwin (full name Darwin Meiners) makes alternative pop with a dark, electronic feel. While rooted in the 80s, his music straddles several genres simultaneously, assimilating new ideas, …
SEE: Land Of Talk video for “Footnotes” | New album “Indistinct Conversations” out 31st July
Land of Talk shared their video for “Footnotes,” the new single from the Montreal-based band’s album Indistinct Conversations, due out July 31st via Saddle Creek. Of the chiming track, where the cheery, propulsive wall of guitar fuzz belies the song’s anguished lyrics, singer/guitarist Elizabeth Powell says: “The music itself is the very sound of people connecting …
TRACK: James Dean Bradfield ‘There’ll Come A War’ & ‘Seeking The Room With The Three Windows’
James Dean Bradfield has released two new tracks. There’ll Come A War/Seeking The Room With The Three Windows are both available on June 26th. Two very different views of the forthcoming album, There’ll Come A War is a pensive, low slung threat of a track that points to the conflict yet to come. While Seeking The Room With The Three Windows is pure ascension, an instrumental with energy enough to ignite a dying star. …
TRACK: A Certain Ratio return with new single “Always In Love”
A CERTAIN RATIO are back with a new album, ACR Loco. Revitalised by their most successful tour in over two decades, the band returned to the studio to record their first album in 12 years – due for release on Mute on 25 September 2020. Listen to the first single taken from the album, the poignantly beautiful ‘Always …
Track: Bubblegum Lemonade – Heaven With You
Bubblegum Lemonade – Heaven With You EP ‘Heaven With You’ is the second single from Bubblegum Lemonade’s smash new album ‘Desperately Seeking Sunshine’. It is a radio hit featuring a chiming Byrds-like guitar intro, an infectious hi hat, glockenspiel, and backing vocals from Sandra of fellow Scottish band Strawberry Whiplash (another great band worth checking …
Track: Azure Blue – Event Horizon + ‘Images Of You’ sampler
Azure Blue – Event Horizon The brilliant new single from the forthcoming ‘Images Of You’ album by Sweden’s Azure Blue, ‘Event Horizon’ will recall the best of OMD, with a whispery subdued vocal. It’s a dark but hopeful story about love in the time of climate change that showcases captivating melodies, a soaring chorus, and …
See: The Vacant Lots with Anton Newcombe (Brian Jonestown Massacre) New Single ‘Bells’ from EXIT E.P.
Hot off the heels of their recent tour with The Dandy Warhols, The Vacant Lots are heading to Europe for headline shows and a couple support shows with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club in support of their new single “Bells.” Bells is a track from the forthcoming EXIT EP released soon on A Recordings. The EP …
Album Review – Froth ‘Duress’
Froth is a band from Los Angeles consisting of Joo-Joo Ashworth (guitar), Jeremy Katz (bass) and Cameron Allen (drums). Together, they’ve explored a range of sounds shoegaze, psychedelia and post-punk over several albums, a steady regimen of East LA house shows, downtown DIY gigs and support tours with alternative rock icons Interpol and Ride soon. After a …
Album Review: The Catenary Wires – ‘Til The Morning’
The Catenary Wires are Rob Pursey and Amelia Fletcher, named after the overhead wires on tram systems. If their names are not familiar – their voices might be. They’ve been working in various bands together since the 80’s including legendary indie pop bands Talulah Gosh, Heavenly, Tender Trap, and Marine Research (all worth checking out). The …
Album Review: Thievery Corporation ‘Treasures from the Temple’
Thievery Corporation Treasures from the Temple (ESL Recordings) released on April 20, 2018 Rating: 7.5 Washington DC based electronic duo of Rob Garza and Eric Hilton known as Thievery Corporation’s latest release of Treasures from the Temple is a companion to their chart-topping 2017 Temple of I & I album release. The 12-track compendium includes a trove of original recordings …