Music
Track: Matt Berry- Something In My Eye
The theatrical actor/musician wunderkind recently released a new single, Something In My Eye. The track’s bouncy, staccato rhythm guitar is immediately Shadows-esque, while the lead guitar is doubly reminiscent of the Shadows’ Hank Marvin. This lead guitar line alone, with it’s simple but moving plaintiveness across the track’s seam, guarantees at least another dozen or …
See: Dead Naked Hippies reveal new video for Eyes Wide (Night Time Version)
Dead Naked Hippies are a trio who’ve been active on the Leeds DIY punk scene since 2016. During 2020 they’ve needed to find creative new ways to work due to the limitations of lockdown, and they’ve subsequently reworked one of their previous songs, with moody electronics replacing the previous live instrument parts. The resulting track “Eyes Wide …
TRACKS: The Shacks – ‘Smile Now, Cry Later’/Brainstory – ‘Runaway’: crate-diggin’ deliciousness
BROOKLYN-based crate-diggers’ delight Big Crown Records has been keeping searchers of the groove content since 2016. A couple of years back, it compiled and curated the music of Sunny & The Sunliners, a chicano soul act outta San Antonio, TX, who began charming the world with their ‘brown-eyed soul’ in 1964 under the aegis of …
Track: The Agency… – Defender
Leaving three dots at the end of a sentence (…) implies something that will continue ad infinitum, something that is yet to be completed, there is more to come or allows you to complete the end. The collective known as The Agency… perhaps suggests any or all of those possibilities, and that can only be …
SEE: California COMEDOWN by Geno Carrapetta
Full of reminiscence and nostalgia for an epic Californian road trip, making memories on the beach.
Say Psych: Album Review: Mugstar & Damo Suzuki Live @ The Invisible Wind Factory
The Weird Beard are set to release something rather special, a live recording of Mugstar & Damo Suzuki recorded at the Invisible Wind Factory in Liverpool in 2018. The vinyl set for release on 14 July will be limited to 500, with 300 pressed on random ‘eco vinyl’ & 200 on an exclusive coloured variant only …
See: Venomous Pinks share video for ‘I really don’t care’ from new EP out now
Tempe, AZ punk rock trio The Venomous Pinks‘ fourth single, “I Really Don’t Care”, off of their acclaimed EP, “I Want You” (out today on Die Laughing/Golden Robot Records), provides a pop-punk palate cleanser with bassist Gaby Kaos on lead vocals. The track is a reimagining of a song from Kaos’ youth that she wrote after a mentally abusive …
TRACK: MORBID REICH RELEASES NEW SINGLE “THE GREAT PERISHMENT”
Following two years of creative silence, Chilean black metallers Morbid Reich have just announced their comeback with the release of their new single THE GREAT PERISHMENT, taken from the writing sessions of the 2018 debut AN ENDLESS HERETIC ADVOCACY (Narcoleptica Productions). Not only THE GREAT PERISHMENT gives birth to a new alliance with newcomer label …
News: The Subways Record A Brand New Version Of ‘Rock & Roll Queen’
Isolated in their respective domains (Josh in France, Charlotte in Sheffield, and Billy in Hertfordshire), The Subways have attempted to curb the frustration of their tour being cancelled, by recording a brand new version of seminal single ‘Rock & Roll Queen’ – available exactly 15 years since its initial release. Not satisfied with just one version, frontman Billy Lunn …
SEE: Black Marble’s take on Wire’s ‘In Manchester’; covers EP to follow
BLACK MARBLE, the recording alias of American east-coast Anglophile Chris Stewart, has released a video for his take on Wire’s “In Manchester”, ahead of a covers EP next month. The EP, entitled I Must Be Living Twice, will be released on August 14th by Sacred Bones Records; it’s also available for pre-order via Bandcamp. I …