Music
Track: Future Islands – For Sure
Future Islands first gained world attention for their stunningly intense and committed performance of the single ‘Seasons (Waiting on You)’ on the Letterman Show way back in 2014. This somewhat overshadowed the fact that the band wrote and continues to write fantastic synth pop anthems. After a gap of three years, they are back with …
NEWS: The Durutti Column to release first wax single this century
THE FIRST standalone vinyl single to come from Vini Reilly’s brittle guitar soundscapers The Durutti Column in the 21st century is due to be released this summer – on Vini’s birthday. The 7″, to be pressed on “crystal clear” vinyl, will contain two tracks: “Free From All Chaos”, as first issued on 2014’s Chronicle 2CD …
NEWS: Fairport founder Judy Dyble dies aged 71
SAD news has been circulating in the world of folk today that Fairport Convention’s early female lead, and later singer with cult British duo Trader Horne, Judy Dyble, has died at the age of 71. Born in London in 1949, Judy rose through the British folk scene and was asked to join the fledgling Fairport …
See: Blue Pills release Video For New Single ‘Kiss My Past Goodbye’
Taken from Blues Pills new album Holy Moly! due August 21st via Nuclear Blast, ‘Kiss My Past Goodbye’ is their explosive new single. Guitarist Zack Anderson comments: “‘Kiss My Past Goodbye’ is a song full of raw power, funky riffs, and wild drumming. It’s a clear message about moving on, staying true to yourself and not dwelling on your past.” Fuzz soaked …
Track: Greg Puciato Shares Single ‘Do You Need Me To Remind You’ Taken From His Debut Solo Album
Dillinger Escape Plan frontman Greg Puciato has set an Oct. 23 release date for his eagerly-awaited solo debut album, Child Soldier: Creator of God via Federal Prisoner. Along with the news Puciato has also shared the next single ‘Do You Need Me To Remind You’ “I’d been writing for so many different projects, Dillinger, then The …
ALBUM REVIEW: V/A ‘Come Stay With Me’ – a leg up for a virus-hit Leeds scene
IT NEEDS no reiteration that the ‘rona has devastated the working British music scene: no gigs, no festivals, no instores, no nuttin’. So in a little way, in response to the privations being experienced on the grassroots Leeds scene in particular, that city’s Come Play With Me label is set to release a compilation entitled …
EP REVIEW: Magik Markers – ‘Isolated From Exterior Time: 2020’
CONNECTICUT’s foremost ragged, slacker squall-rockers Magik Markers have descended from their years-long recess and deigned to bless us with the benison of a new four-track, download-only EP for Drag City, Isolated From Exterior Time: 2020, their first release of any kind in five years. The band, Elisa Ambroglio, John Shaw and Pete Nolan, said: “The …
TRACK: Romare – ‘The River’: insistent, layered Ninja groove
A ROLLING broken beat steps forth, announces a swaying Afro groove. It’s joined by a stabbing piano figure that seems to pin the deep, oceangoing roll of the break, force it to take a new rhythmic shape; a little bassy snippet hints at 70s’ funk. The beat shifts again, gets more insistent. Layers of sourced …
Track: KATAKLYSM RELEASE MUSIC VIDEO FOR ‘THE KILLSHOT’
Canadian melodic death metal heavyweights KATAKLYSM are proud to reveal their 14th full length studio album, ‘UNCONQUERED’ which will be unleashed on September 25th via Nuclear Blast Records. Today, the band release the first single entitled, “The Killshot“. Watch the video directed by Scott Hansen of Digital Thunderdome, here: The band comments, “‘The Killshot’ is very Machiavellian at its base meaning. The song deals with revenge and planning it out, I wrote …
Track: Semisonic release first new material in 20 years – You’re not alone
Alternative Rock trio Semisonic have released ‘You’re Not Alone’, the band’s first new song in nearly 20 years. The single is the opening track from Semisonic’s forthcoming five-song EP ‘You’re Not Alone’ out on September 18th via Pleasuresonic Recordings/Megaforce Records. Although never splitting up, Semisonic have continued with their own solo projects since 2001’s ‘All That Chemistry’, which …