Music
See: TV Coma release new video for single ‘Congratulations’
Brighton based power-pop trio TV Coma have released a new single, Congratulations, recounting a fiery farewell with a former lover, and to go with it they’ve released an accompanying video to go with it. Of the track TV Coma’s vocalist Leo says “It’s about the unexplored paradigms of modern relationships. As the first humans to …
Track: Coheed and Cambria – Jessie’s Girl 2
Modern rock storytellers Coheed and Cambria have teamed up with Grammy Award-winning singer Rick Springfield in the sequel to one of the most iconic stories in rock ‘n’ roll history with ‘Jessie’s Girl 2’. The track, which finds the two extending the narrative of the 1980’s smash hit ‘Jessie’s Girl’ Coheed and Cambria vocalist / guitarist Claudio Sanchez wonders, “has anyone ever written …
Track: Metallica and San Francisco Symphony share ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls (Live)’ taken from forthcoming album S&M2
With the release of their album S&M2 due August 28th, Metallica & San Francisco Symphony have shared the final taste of the live album with the video of track – ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls (Live)’. Recorded at The Chase Center in San Francisco in September 2019, the shows seen Metallica reunited with Symphony for the first time since the 1999 performances captured …
RSD2020: Album Review: Dune Soundtrack
Out on August 29th for Record Store Day is a new pressing of Toto’s score for the 1984 fantasy science fiction film, Dune, the epic tales of a time – 10191 to be exact, when the planet Arrakis – home to the most valuable substance in the universe, melange, has caused the Harkonnens to violently …
EP: Troye Sivan – In A Dream
Fans of Australian singer-songwriter Troye Sivan who have been there from the start will have seen the evolution of an artist, from the early YouTube videos to the early Eps June Haverly and TRXYE. The trilogy of videos from his debut long player Blue Neighbourhood as well as his coming out video have made him an LGBT icon. The second …
Track: Emmy the Great reveals new single ‘Mary’
Following on from the news that Emmy the Great is to release her new album April / 月音 on October 9th via Bella Union, she has followed up recent single Dandelions / Liminal with a new track, Mary. Of the track Emmy says: “Mary is named for a Hong Kong fortune teller I met in Kowloon, who gave me the wrong fortune …
PREMIERE: Babe, Terror – ‘Salina Lumen’: Caretaker-style eerieness from a locked-down São Paulo
BABE, TERROR, the nom-de-musique of São Paulo’s Claudio Szynkier, is a serious sort of name. That juxtaposition: your babe, your loved one, terror. Oh. … but then these are serious times, and if you think we’ve got it bad in the UK currently, then try the Brazil of the Brazil of an emergent populist, Covid-denying …
TRACK: hear the synth disco of Mort Garson’s ‘Dragonfly’ ahead of Sacred Bones’ reissues
MORT GARSON is a name that’s intoned with due gravity by those who know. Hailing from Canada with an interest of the sounds of early circuitry-based music and a penchant for conceptual albums – concerning witchcraft, the zodiac, even music to help plants grow: to the sort of people you find in the kitchen bathtub …
Meet: We chat with Jez Williams from Doves about Northern Soul, getting the band back together and the new album, plus we review ‘The Universal Want’
The new album from Doves, ‘The Universal Want’ is a blistering rebirth from the Mancunian band. It’s much more than a return to form – their previous albums were uniformly brilliant – but there is a sense of identifiable development and growth in the intervening eleven years since ‘Kingdom of Rust’ was released. Songs such …
Track: Watertown – Car CDs
Four piece Watertown shared their second single ‘Car CDs’ . A summery sound, using a wide range of instruments within this track, such as, djembe, Alto and Tenor sax, Trumpet, Bass, Guitar, drums and many more which help to create the summery sound we want for this song. Bright laid back grooves, and honey sweet …