Music
Track: Jean Tonique feat. Dirty Radio – What you wanna do
Taken from the forthcoming Partyfine labels 2nd compilation is a new track, titled ‘What you wanna do’, from Paris DJ/Producer Jean Tonique. Making his mark remixing the likes of Lana Del Rey and Outkast, he’s been a regular in the Hype Machine top ten with his classic slices of funky house. What You Wanna Do …
Track: Coldabank releases debut single, ‘Heart Strings’
With an incredibly strong debut single, Coldabank (real name Joachim Walker) has instantly made his mark and set the level of quality he’s capable of, and believe me this is only the beginning. ‘Heart Strings’ is a song that contains everything you’d want and throws in an equal amount of surprises too that all combine …
Track: Kelpe – Doubles of Everything
Kel McKeown, under his Kelpe guise, has been creating a place for himself at the forefront of UK experimental electronic underground for the last twelve years. Following on from his 2013 album Fourth: The Golden Eagle, his first on his own DRUT Recordings, comes his forthcoming fifth album, The Curved Line, which drops on August …
Track: L/F/D/M releases the minimal bleepy acid of Heavy Clouds, from forthcoming EP Psychopaths Eating Jelly
Following on from a slew of brilliant releases, including EPs for Optimo Trax and Clandestine Traxx and an album for Kompakt’s Ecstatic imprint as well as a couple of EPs for Diagonal alongside former Factory Floor Dominic Butler under the moniker Bronze Teeth, comes a new EP from Richard Smith, aka L/F/D/M. Called Psychopaths Eating …
Track: Alabama punk/psych trio \\GT// release new single ’Something’s Wrong With My Mind’
Punk / Rock / Psychedelic, Birmingham, Alabama 3 piece \GT// stoke the fires of anticipation for the release of their debut album, ‘Beats Misplaced’, with lead single, ‘Something’s Wrong With My Mind’. Due for UK release on July 31, via Communicating Vessels & Rough Trade, “the eight track LP is a rock ’n’ roll thrill ride, …
Album Review: Shark Breath Promotions – Massive Fucking Shark Vol.1
Shark Breath Promotions are a brand spanking new totally independent punk and alternative label who’s only remit is to bring you the best in punk, ska, thrash and alternative sounds from the true underground. Whether it be well established acts or the best up and coming bands around, Shark Breath will seek them out and …
SEE: Shots Fired – The Architect
Leeds metal/hardcore outfit Shots Fired have recently unleashed the video for their latest brutal offering, ‘The Architect’. When we say brutal, we mean as the dictionary definition – “direct and without attempting to disguise unpleasantness.” Shots Fired are definitely direct, be it live or on record, these lads are up in your face demanding your …
Album Review: Young Guns, Ones and Zeros
From absent fathers, a discontent with the places that have remained the same since childhood, as well as having much woe to channel into a creative form, all resulted in Young Guns’ debut album; the effortless, flowing and poetically weighted All Our Kings Are Dead. After that came Bones; slightly mellower but far bigger, it …
Premiere: Flunk – Queen of Underground (Drive Remix)
Oslo quartet Flunk, aka Anja Øyen Vister, Jo Bakke, Ulf Nygaard, Erik Ruud, have always had an eye for a remix, and ten years into their musical adventures they’re about to release an(other) remix album in the shape of ‘Deconstruction Time Again. Taking vocals from their 2012 album ‘Lost Causes’, a host of remixers stretching …
Track: Willis Earl Beal releases the hazy beauty of Flying So Low
“People had all these ideas about what I was supposed to be,” he says. “I had only ever wanted to make lullabies.” So says Willis Earl Beal, a man who has experienced much in his life, from homelessness, to serious illness that led to him being discharged from the US Army, to recording homemade records …