Music
Interview: New York rockers The Sweet Things
NYC rockers The Sweet Things caught up with us ahead of their upcoming UK tour dates. The tour comes off the back of their recent single, a real bar room romp around good time rock and roll. Hello! Kindly introduce yourselves.Sam: Sam Hariss, I play bass and sing and am by far the most attractive …
EP: Julien Jabre – Samana
French producer Julien Jabre has gone back to his own Elias imprint for the release of his new EP, Samana, out on vinyl on May 13th. After releasing music on the Basic Recordings and Versatile labels, Jabre decided to make a comeback to the label he set up in 2003 following the reissue of ‘Stand …
Album Review: Barrie – Happy to be Here
Barrie’s single “Tal Uno”, released last year, was for me one of the stand out singles of 2018 (along with Fontaines D.C.’s ‘Boys in the Better Land’). Their follow up singles, off the EP ‘Singles’ further enhanced my love of the band. Smooth clean jangly psych pop with the most elegant harmonies and the indelible. …
Track: BABii – Carniivore
Margate singer-songwriter BABii has released a new track, Carniivore, ahead of her debut album Hiide (you see the double ii thing going on, right?) which comes out on July 5th via Deathwaltz Originals. Produced by uber-producer Adrian Sherwood, BABii makes this sort of smoky electronic pop/R&B, Sherwood does a shine and polish job on the …
Track: Skinny Pelembe – Dreaming Is Dead Now, plus album news.
Taken from his forthcoming album on the ever brilliant Brownswood Recordings label, Doncaster artist Skinny Pelembe gets all un-Doncaster on us with his new sun soaked track and the title track from his debut album, ‘Dreaming is Dead now’. Like his other work, it takes from a patchwork of influences, from Alice Coltrane to My …
EP: Smuggler Brothers – In the City / Jam
Palermo jazz/funk outfit Smuggler Brothers have returned after a long haitus with a new 7″ EP on the Schema label ahead of a new album, the follow up to 2015’s self titled debut, which drops next month. As an added bonus the tracks on the EP are not on the album, so it serves as …
Track: Okaywill – Pretend
South Carolina singer-songwriter Okaywill is about to release his debut EP of charm fulled bedroom pop out 14 June on Majestic Casual Records. From it he,s streaming the track Pretend. Of the track, okaywill says ‘Pretend is an alternate reality for me. It’s what could’ve happened to me but didn’t: My girlfriend had a relationship with me …
TRACK: LORD VICAR – Impact, plus new albums news
“The Black Powder” (Released May 31st) is the fourth album from Lord Vicar. It was, like the previous album “Gates of Flesh”, recorded by audio wizard Joona Lukala at Noise for Fiction studio in Turku, Finland. All studio work took place in February and March of 2019. The studio has the benefit of …
Track: Ride – Future Love plus Tour News
The legendary Ride have just released a new single – Future Love – off their forthcoming album ‘This Is Not A Safe Place’ due out on 16 August 2019. And as an added bonus, Ride have announced a tour of Australia and New Zealand after a 25 year absence thanks to SBM Presents. ‘Future Love’ …
Track: MNDSGN – Deviled Eggs, plus new album news
MNDSGN, aka Ringgo Ancheta, is preparing for the release of Snaxx, out on June 14th via Stones Throw. It’s the follow up to last years Snax – a self-released tape of remixes, and this time features some favourites from his hybrid live/DJs shows like the first glimspe of the record – Deviled Eggs. The track …