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News: Undead Release 2019 Debut Album ‘Existential Horror’ on vinyl
International death metal act Undead is proud to announce the long-awaited vinyl release of their 2019 debut album Existential Horror, due out Sept. 25 via Kadabra Music. Mixed and mastered by Tore Stjerna at Necromorbus Studio (Mayhem, Watain, Tribulation), Existential Horror is a fine example of what the death metal of yesteryear is all about. The Spanish/UK-based international outfit’s first attempt …
Track: L.A. Witch share the heavy grunge of ‘Gen-Z’
Taken from their forthcoming ‘Play With Fire’ album, out on August 21st on Suicide Squeeze, Californian trio L.A. Witch have released their latest single, Genn-Z. Of the track, the bands guitarist and vocalist Sade Sanchez said “‘Gen-Z’ is inspired by a series of articles mentioning the high rates of suicide amongst the Gen-Z due to …
See: Aladean Kheroufi releases new video for soulful jam ‘Take a Step’
Taken from his forthcoming EP Beauty Beyond Grief, Canadian-Algerian multi-instrumentalist / producer Altadena Kheroufi has released a new track, Taken A Step. Born out of the worldwide pandemic and the ending of a long term relationship, Kheroufi recorded this collection of classic soul reworkings as a response to these things. Throw in losing your job …
Track: Beau Diako releases the sweet indie / R&B of ‘Animal’
Following on from his 2019 debut, British producer, songwriter and guitarist Beau Diako has released a new track Animal, which grew out of a jam session in L.A. with South Cali native COCO providing vocals. Of the track, Beau says “Animal” was made earlier this year with some friends in LA and a new love …
See: Video for beabadoobee’s ‘Care’, from forthcoming album
The 20-year-old bedroom pop sensation beabadoobee, who only began recording music in 2017, has gone from strength to strength lately. From releasing the astoundingly well-received Space Cadet EP last year, to being awarded the NME Radar Award this past February, Bea’s trajectory shows no signs of slowing. New single Care is also accompanied by the …
Track: Mammal Hands announce new album and release track, “Chaser”
WITH all the jazz noise coming out of South London these days it is easy to forget that the pulse continues to beat elsewhere. Mammal Hands have been steadily developing their individual pursuit of contemporary fusion music on Matthew Halsall’s esteemed Gondwana Records since their 2014 debut, Animalia. Now comes news of their fourth album …
TRACK: Bill Callahan makes it a Monday quartet with ‘Protest Song’
BILL CALLAHAN’S ongoing Monday afternoon pledge to gift us a song from his September Gold Record reached its fourth instalment today, with the downhome and evocative porchside “Protest Song”. Today’s is a bluesy, spontaneous and raggy fragment, with the meta-theme of being a protest song about a protest song on the television. “Somebody must stop …
Droppin’ Knowledge: Behind The Boards With DJ Green Lantern
What up, people. For today’s version of Behind The Boards, we have the legendary Evil Genius in the house, DJ Green Lantern. Green Lantern has been slicing and dicing, and cutting and chopping for what appears to be an eternity, and is still on top of the game. He has worked with some of the …
SEE: El Goodo’s ‘The Grey Tower’ psychs like The Seeds
QUIETLY working to their own, slower calendar in the Vale of Neath since the 20th flipped to the 21st, Wales’s El Goodo offer up pebbles of psych-folk-country goodness for anyone who steps through their door. We should trust their hospitality. Take that name. Yes, of course it namechecks Big Star. How can we not be …
NEWS: ‘One-man Beatles’ Emitt Rhodes dies aged 70
IT HAS been reported from the States that the psych-pop singer-songwriter once dubbed ‘the one-man Beatles’, Emitt Rhodes, has died at the age of 70. Californian-born Emitt moved through a brace of teenage bands, The Palace Guard and The Merry-Go-Round, before striking out on his own after the latter outfit disbanded in 1969. He recorded …