Music
Album Review: Mallrat’s ‘Butterfly Blue’ is a perfect collection of pure pop jewels, fused with indie rock and rap, that glitters and glows.
It’s hard to believe ‘Butterfly Blue’ (out through Dew Process) is Mallrat‘s debut album. She has graced us with two stunning EPs and a series of brilliant singles that have illustrated her perfect amalgam of feisty yet achingly beautiful tracks that seamlessly drift between pure pop, indie rock and rap (sometimes all within one song), …
Track: There’s A Tuesday don’t want to be the ‘Girl At Night’ – a sparkling piece of melodic whimsy with a message from this Christchurch dream pop outfit.
Signed to BENEE’s record label Olive Records, There’s A Tuesday reveal an inherent sense of melody and melancholy in their new single ‘Girl At Night’ – a track full of charm and insouciance. This follows their earlier single ‘Baby Blue’ reviewed by me here. There is a message of unrequited love mixed in with the frustrations …
Live Gallery: Sappho at the Vanguard, Sydney
Sappho dazzled Sydney with her swinging pearls and dancing girls.
PREMIERE: The Mortal Prophets make an instant impact with debut single ‘Stomp the Devil’
What do you get when you cross post-war blues with experimental rock and electronica before bringing in one-time Captain Beefheart member Gary Lucas on guitar and composition duties? Hell if we know (pun very much intended) but it’d probably sound something similar to John Beckmann’s new gig, the Mortal Prophets. It’s both a band (of …
PREMIERE: LA trio Lost Cat present ‘Bitch Fight’ from their impending debut album
Meet Lost Cat. They’re from Los Angeles, and there’s three of them – Angie, Lucy and Kiki. They’re on a first-names-only basis apparently, and that’s fine with us. Their sound’s at the crossroads of peak girl group and garage punk, with their new song throwing in a woozy psychedelic bridge for good measure. It’s called …
Track: Bleed From Within – Flesh And Stone
With only three weeks remaining until the release of their new record ‘Shrine’, the Scottish 5-piece Bleed From Within are sharing the video for the fourth album single from the album – ‘Flesh And Stone’. Ali Richardson stated, “Flesh And Stone was born from the idea that future generations will inherit a dying planet. The evidence to …
News: The Rolling Stones to release singles boxset 1963-1966 via ABKCO Records
Out on June 10th via ABKCO Records is a new box set celebrating the early singles of the iconic Rolling Stones. The box set will include reproductions of the first 18 7” singles and EP’s that the band released during the period 1963-1966. Originally released by Decca and London Records, the tracks have been remastered …
Track: Opus Kink – Dog Stay Down
Brighton sextet Opus Kink have announced the release of their debut EP ‘Til The Stream Runs Dry’, due 17th June via Nice Swan Records. The band have shared another track from the EP – ‘Dog Stay Down’. Speaking ahead of their third EP reveal, Opus Kink stated: “‘Dog Stay Down’ is a song about bad love, love for …
See: Wire announce new album, plus visuals for first track taken from it, Stepping Off Too Quick
Legendary post-punks Wire have announced a new album, and its one with a slight twist. ’Not About To Die’ is out on June 24th via pinkflag, and it sees the band reclaiming tracks from an early 80s bootleg of the same name. The album was made up of demos recorded by the band originally intended …
Track: Grave Lines – Carcini
With their third album ‘Communion’ due later this year via New Heavy Sounds, London’s Grave Lines have shared the first track ‘Carcini’ to be taken from the album. With some of the finest vocals in doom courtesy of Jake Harding, ‘Carcini’ is a sinister track of drawn-out and heavy guitars dragged over cymbal heavy drumming. …