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Album Review: The Jesus and Mary Chain reveal their stunning ‘Glasgow Eyes’ – an intoxicating mix of swagger and attitude with just a hint of reflection.

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Music News: Grebo gurus Pop Will Eat Itself announce London & Manchester shows.

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Music New: The Breeders announce 30th Anniversary UK Tour of Last Splash LP

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OXFORDSHIRE songsmith and former amateur boxing champion Willie J Healey is finishing a year of deserved musical resurgence on a seasonal note, as he drops the classicism of “Merry Christmas” for us to raid the selection box to with a wee refresher. Watch below. Willie first glided into our minds back in 2017 when, after …

“One for the introverts and dreamers, the ones that still find beauty and magic in things” Now, technically speaking, we at Backseat Mafia have already previewed this back in October, ahead of a physical release on December 11th, but, this being 2020, nothing is ever that straightforward, so, this has now been rescheduled to 18th December …

NOTTINGHAM’S finest, Tindersticks, are all set to release a new album in 2021 on City Slang, their home for most of the past decade; and they’ve dropped their first single, paying homage to one of the lost greats of Eighties’ British post-punk and indie – Dan Treacy, and the Television Personalities. They’ve decided to take …

EVANESCENCE’S first album of original music in a decade, The Bitter Truth, will be released on March 26th next year Sony Music, and pre-orders are now live. The band’s latest single, “Yeah Right”, is also out now to whet our appetites for what’s to come. Listen to it below! You can pre-order The Bitter Truth …

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2020 has put the brakes on for so many artists, but Larkin Poe haven’t slowed down at all. In June the Atlanta-born Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist sister duo Rebecca and Megan Lovell released their fifth studio album, Self Made Man, which combined their full-throttle roots-rock with a refreshing positivity. Barely pausing for breath, last month they released …

A REALLY sad loss to the world of early Nineties British independent guitar music this evening, as news began to circulate on Facebook that David Fitzgerald, the original guitarist with Burton-on-Trent’s psych-noise genii The Telescopes, has died. In a statement on Facebook, Wrong Way Records posted: “Haven’t posted of here for quite a while, but …

The Chills have provided a very nice end of the year surprise in the form of a new single ‘You’re Immortal’, and all the horrors of 2020 suddenly seem to dissipate ever so slightly, like memories of a bad dream. ‘You’re Immortal’ has that baroque pop elegance full of pomp and circumstance that the The …

HASSLE RECORDS, home to such guitar assault squads as raging post-feminist outfit Petrol Girls and Belgian hardcore/mathrock band Brutus, has enticed a blurrily excellent act through its doors: the London-based Portuguese psych trio Madmess. The label begins its relationship with the trio – guitarist and vocalist Sam Paio, bassist Vasco Vasconcelos, and drummer-cum-vocalist Luis Moura …

NASHVILLE Americana troubadour Aaron Lee Tasjan, who’s been far from idle this year with the release of two digital-only EPs, the two-volume Found Songs, has dropped one final, finely sculpted kiss-off to the year, “Computer Of Love” and accompanying intergalactic visuals – have a peek for yourself. Aaron, who’s collaborated with everyone from Sean Lennon …

MEMPHIS’ John Paul Keith, an artist deeply embedded in the raunch and the blues of his home city, has announced the follow-up to his 2018 album Heart Shaped Shadow; it’ll be out on Wild Honey Records come February 19th and it’s entitled The Rhythm Of The City. He’s shared the album’s opening track, “How Can …