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TRACK: FIT FOR A KING release crushing new single ‘Reaper’
Fit For a King have a busy remainder of 2022 ahead of them — a new album and major US tour with I Prevail and Pierce The Veil are on the horizon. Today, the Texas band has dropped the video for the band new single ‘Reaper.’ Watch it here. Fit For A King come roaring out of the gates with …
Review: Spacey Jane overcome the sophomore album jitters with ‘Here Comes Everyone’
Spacey Jane’s follow up to the wildly successful ‘Sunlight’ consolidates their position as Australia’s favourite indie band.
Album Review: The Brian Jonestown Massacre are back with a jangling psychedelic storm in the brilliant ‘Fire Doesn’t Grow on Trees’.
Apparently the first The Brian Jonestown Massacre album in three years has distilled ten tracks from more than 60 recordings made over the years during the COVID lockdowns in singer/songwriter/guitarist Anton Newcombe’s Berlin recording studios. And the result is concentrated goodness, recalling some of Newton’s best material from over the decades. With less experimental sonic …
Track: Stella Donnelly releases new track ‘Flood’
Stella Donnelly releases new track ‘Flood’ off upcoming album.
Album Review: Johnny Hunter’s debut album ‘Want’ is a vibrant masterpiece of new wave post punk indie – dramatic, theatrical and full of joy.
Without doubt, to me, Johnny Hunter is one of the most exciting bands coming out of Australia at the moment and their debut album ‘Want’ is a masterpiece of new wave post punk indie imbued with a punk sensibility. The inherent muscularity of music and imagery is leavened by an erudite sensitivity and an indelible …
Track: The statuesque Caligula make a welcome end of the month return with the gothic balladry of ‘The Ghost of Yesterday’
In their second life, the magnificent Caligula are maintaining the creative rage with the release of a new single every month, and the quality never waivers. This month, it’s the semi-ballad ‘The Ghost of Yesterday’ – a poignant autobiographical track with writer/singer Ash Rothschild’s voice as close to tender as you can get. There is …
News: New Mexican dreamers Tan Cologne announce new album and unveil the gorgeously evocative and ethereal track ‘Floating Gardens’.
Long time favourites of Backseat Mafia, Tan Cologne, have almost single handedly invented an entire new branch of essential dream pop/shoegaze emanating from the mystical deserts of New Mexico – a sort of desert-gaze dream pop that shimmers with all the beauty and alien mysteries of the vast desert skies. It’s been over two years …
Lagwagon Mini UK Tour – UK Tour Off
Californian Skate Punks Lagwagon, were due to hit these shores on Sunday 26th June for a whistle stop 5 date UK tour, but sadly due to a problem with Joey’s throat all the dates have been pulled. As tickets are being automatically refunded from the point of purchase, it doesn’t look like they will be …
PREMIERE: Seattle’s Biblioteka stream debut album ‘Pretty Ugly’ ahead of release
They’ve been building up to something grander for a while – dealing with the mixed emotions of releasing their second EP a week into a pandemic along the way – and you’ll be happy to hear that Seattle quartet Biblioteka are anything but ‘Checked Out’. Far from it, in fact – their debut full-length crackles …
NEWS: THE WONDER YEARS announce new album, ‘The Hum Goes On Forever’, with new single, ‘Wyatt’s Song’ (Your Name)!
THE HUM GOES ON FOREVER is released September 23rd on Hopeless Records. “I don’t want to die, at least not without you.” Those are the words that open up The Wonder Years‘ new album, The Hum Goes On Forever. It marks the next evolution of a band that’s never stopped growing, never stopped striving, never stopped searching for the truth and …