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News: Maximo Park set to perform a live stream for the release of their new album Nature Always Wins
Maxïmo Park’s have shared news of an exclusive online live-streamed show to celebrate the release of the album ‘Nature Always Wins’ via Prolifica Inc. The stream will take place on Saturday March 6th, live from the Riverside, Newcastle. The band will play songs from the new album live for the very first time, as well as …
NEWS: The Pretty Reckless chart with ‘Death By Rock And Roll’
Legendary rockers The Pretty Reckless chart at number 6 with their fourth album ‘Death by Rock and Roll’. The critically-acclaimed record entered the UK Official Albums Chart at the band’s highest position since their debut album ‘Light Me Up’ in 2010 which also peaked at number 6. ‘Death by Rock and Roll’ also hit number …
News: Australian indie royalty Eskimo Joe announce national tour and release video for new single ’99 Ways’
Western Australian band Eskimo Joe are veritable and venerable indie giants in the Australian music scene, and it is great to see them back after a hiatus, firstly with single ‘Say Something’ last year and now with a follow up, ’99 Ways’. They have also announced news of an Australia-wide tour playing their first two …
Track: Only Now & Beneath the Ruins – ‘Mine Of Memories’: scorched earth blues foraging for what remains
IT’S A dark meshing of minds: experimental electronic producer Only Now and guitarist Beneath The Ruins have convened out in the sonic edgelands for a joint debut EP, Anamnesis, out next month. The artists born Kush Arora and Peter Arensdorf respectively have meshed to investigate badlands atmospherics, dark electronica and wasteland West Coast blues – as you can hear …
News: Manchester Orchestra announce new album ‘The Million Masks of God’ and release spectral single ‘Bed Head’
Atlanta-based giants, Manchester Orchestra, have announced details of their new album ‘The Million Masks of God’ set for release on April 30th, 2021 via Loma Vista Recordings. To whet the appetite, the track ‘Bed Head’ has just been released – an epic, cinematic single filled with the passion and intensity you expect from this band. …
News: Apparat to release limited ‘Soundtracks’ vinyl box set mid-April; hear ‘Joel’
SASCHA RING, the German electronica artist who plies his trade as Apparat, is set to release a limited edition four-album box set through Mute in mid-April collecting together a quartet of his recent soundtrack works. It’s the first time these soundtracks will have been available on vinyl, and this rather lush edition will also include …
News: Stubborn Heart to release first album for eight years; hear ‘Talking Gold’
LUCA SANTUCCI and Ben Fitzgerald, the British electronica duo who fire a line into electronic soul through techno, house, synthpop and more, are back, with their first album in more than eight years set to be released on One Little Independent come summer. That self-titled debut from back in 2012 got the plaudits from the …
News: Iceage announce fifth album, ‘Seek Shelter’, with ‘Vendetta’
A SIMMERING, fervid forge of modern post-punk, Copenhagen’s Iceage have unravelled in unexpected and thrilling fashion since their 2011 iconic debut. Forthcoming album Seek Shelter, as glimpsed previously with Holding Hand, and now Vendetta, sees them unfurling their musical wings to an ever-widening span; working with new elements: the illustrious psych grandmaster Pete “Sonic Boom” …
Tracks: Hear ‘Mothra’ and ‘Ecce! Ego!’ ahead of Leon Vynehall’s new album for Ninja
NOTHING IS STILL, Leon Vynehall’s third album and his debut outing for Ninja Tune, absolutely elevated the British electronica explorer to the top echelons of cutting-edge creativity in the form; don’t believe me? Luxuriate in the swoon of “From The Sea/It Looms (Chapters I & II)” and then come back to me. (Oh yeah, Ninja …
News: Andy Bell announces trio of EPs and a compilation; see the GLOK remix of ‘Indica’
RIDE guitarist, singer and sonic explorer Andy Bell has announced a series of three EPs and a compilation to keep you satiated with leftfield shoegazey pop supreme right the way from spring to midsummer. It looks lush; see for yourself. The series of EPs is entitled Ever Decreasing Circles and will begin on April 9th …