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See: DBFC release video for Autonomic
New from the Anglo-French electro-pop “club” DBFC (“DBFC is not a band, it’s a club” is part of their manifesto), is the video for new single “Autonomic”. Library footage of vintage electronics, sports, and medical instructional videos timed to a driving beat. Think 808 State soundtracking Fantastic Voyage, 2001 and Open University all at the …
INTERVIEW: Reckless Love @ Camden Rocks Festival
With over 200 bands playing Camden Rocks, it was quite the task to grab interviews in all the madness. We managed to pin down Reckless Love in the yard behind the venue they were playing in, the Electric Ballroom, to have a quick chat about living life as though we’re still in the 80s! BM: …
Track: The Orange Kyte – Inside Out n’ Upside Down
Vancouver’s Stevie Moonboots is on a freak-out mission, via his project The Orange Kyte. It’s an umbrella of shifting collaborators from the Canadian psych scene, which since the start of this year, has released a single a month, this being the latest offering. Orange sunshine fuzz guitars and lysergic hammond organs compliment his Dylan-esque rasp, …
Meet: Outblinker Interview
Outblinker make this rather fantastic heavy synth, motorik style krautRock, as evidenced by their recent, and rather brilliant Remains of Arthur Peck EP, which has shades of Fuck Buttons, along with a little splash of Godspeed! In there for good measure. We spoke to Chris and Luigi from the band to find out a little …
Album Review: William Tyler : Modern Country
William Tyler doesn’t make music as much as he paints aural landscapes. There’s a vast space within his records as a solo musician. The former Lambchop guitarist -over the course of three studio LPs- has created a musical world of dusty fields, endless horizons, and open roads that seem to never end. On his newest …
See: God Damn release video for new track, Ghost
Black Country rockers God Damn are back following their rollocking Vultures album from last year, and no prizes for guessing they’re as noisy and pulsating as they ever were. Ghost veers between the singalong and a (very heavy) punk record, at least in attitude. It ebbs and flows, either totally deep or completely franetic, but …
Track: Whyte Lytes – Go get it
Oxfordshire rockers Whyte Lights are preparing to release their debut single, Go Get it. The quartet – Josh Rawle (Bass/Vocals), Alex Rawle (Guitar/Vocals), Jonny Morrison (Guitar) and Jamie Langford (Drums), have been building something of a following, already recieving support from Aaron Phillips Amazing Radio Rock show and playing shows with VANT and High Tyde. …
See: Darren Hayman reveals new video for Strethall (Essex), plus UK tour dates
IF you hadn’t heard of former Hefner frontman Darren Haymans new project, Thankful Villages, then jump aboard quickly as Volume one came out last Friday via Rivertones. Writer Arthur Mee coined the phrase Thankful Villages in the 1930s. In his 1936 book Enchanted land he wrote that a Thankful Village was one which had lost …
Album Review: Minor Victories – Minor Victories
Minor Victories, if you haven’t read our review of debut single “A Hundred Ropes”, are Rachel Goswell (Slowdive), Stuart Braithwaite (Mogwai), Justin Lockey (Editors) and his brother James (Hand Held Cine Club, responsible for the exquisite videos that accompany some of these tracks). Originally conceived as part of Justin’s intention to make a ‘noise record …
Playlist: R.I.P. Muhammad Ali – 10 songs
And so the champion made his exit, and the man born Cassius Clay, the ‘Louisville lip’, the three time Heavyweight champion of the world left us, surrounded by his family at the age of 74. Ever since winning Olympic gold medal at the 1960 games and turning professional he told us he was the greatest, …