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See: The Psychedelic Furs release video for ‘Wrong Train’ – a gorgeous cinematic black and white slice of dystopia, plus announce tour news
Last year the venerable The Psychedelic Furs returned with ‘Made of Rain’ – making it on Backseat Mafia’s list of top fifty albums of 2020 and in my view one of their best albums. In my 9/10 review I wrote it was a contemporary album for the modern times and while it has all the …
Say Psych: News: Sacred Bones to release lost Alan Vega LP, Mutator & Share Video to ‘Nike Soldier’
Sacred Bones Records will release the lost album from Alan Vega, Mutator, on 23 April. Vega’s name is synonymous with unfettered creativity, from the late 1950s, through his years playing in Suicide, and all the way up until his death in 2016, Vega was constantly creating. This process naturally led to a wealth of material that didn’t see the light of day immediately when it …
News: bdrmm reschedule UK tour for the autumn – see rearranged dates
YORKSHIRE’S shoegaze princes-in-waiting bdrmm have rescheduled their long-awaited UK tour to October and November, hoping as we all are that live music will be fully functional by then. See the rearranged dates below. Sonic Cathedral, voicing the natural frustration I’m sure so many of us feel at the Government’s … idiosyncratic handling of the pandemic, …
News: New Zealand’s Merk announces new album and releases gorgeous, yearning single Laps Around the Sun
Merk’s new single ‘Laps Around the Sun’ is a gorgeous reflective piece, infused with a sense of yearning and constructed around a deceptively simple synth-based framework. Merk is the work of Auckland, New Zealand artist, multi-instrumentalist and producer Mark Perkins who began his career as a touring member of Tom Lark and Fazerdaze. In this …
News: Bob Mould Announces Next Part of Solo Career Anthology
Not content with having released one of the best punk rock albums of last year, ‘Blue Hearts’, former Hüsker Dü frontman Bob Mould has announced plans to release the third part of his ‘Distortion’ series of vinyl boxed sets covering his post-Hüsker Dü career between 1989 and 2019. This set will cover his solo work …
See: Tristan Kasten-Krause – ‘Dawn Looming’: delicious dronescapes for a new day
NEW YORK-based bassist and composer Tristan Kasten-Krause likes to mix it up, see a little of the creative world. As well as being active on the Big Apple’s DIY and experimental scenes, he’s also played in Oklahoma!, in a production running on Broadway, which gives you any idea of his breadth and scope culturally. He …
NEWS: World Circuit to reissue ‘Cumbia Cumbia 1 & 2’ and Ali Farka Touré’s ‘Red’ on vinyl
REVERED label World Circuit has taken a dive into the halls of its back catalogue and has announced vinyl pressings for two albums that will surely please fans of the global sound everywhere. The first of the two reissues is to be Various artists – Cumbia Cumbia 1 & 2, an exploration of the rhythms of …
NEWS: wojtek the bear release new single ‘ferme la bouche’ and detail second album
Glaswegian five-piece wojtek the bear make their return today, more than a year after releasing most recent EP old names for new shapes, and they’ve certainly been busy. They announced their forthcoming second album a little while back, and you can now listen to its opening track and lead single ‘ferme la bouche’, which, per …
News: Enter Shikari announce charity t-shirt collab with St Albans FC, alongside lockdown video
Electro-rock titans Enter Shikari have announced a t-shirt collaboration with their local hometown football team St Albans City FC. All profits from the sales are being split between the St Albans & District Foodbank in Hertfordshire, and the Fans Supporting Foodbanks charity in Liverpool, Merseyside. From the beginning of our partnership with SACFC, the main focus …
Track: Chad VanGaalen’s ‘Night Waves’ is lush and Velvetsy; live stream news
YOUR favourite leftfield Canadian songwriter, Chad VanGaalen, is shaping up to go public with his accolade as the World’s Most Stressed Out Gardener, his new album for Sub Pop on March 19th; and as part of his podium speech on receipt of that trophy, we can reveal from his hastily scribbled notes, a new track, …