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Track: Roddy Frame – Forty days of fame, plus new album news
Scottish songsmith Roddy Frame is back in the album business, with a new LP set for release in May. Three records on from Aztec Camera’s last, Frestonia in 1995, “Seven Dials” marks Frame’s first foray since 2006’s “Western Skies”. Named after the Covent Garden junction in London (it’s swanky – and fun to watch tourists …
See: Augustines announce UK tour dates, plus album news
Formed out of the ashes of Pela, and named after the month where the bands main protagonists Billy McCarthy and Eric Sanderson were born, Augustines have returned. Their first, brilliant, album Rise Ye Sunken Ships was coloured with the experience of the tragic death of McCarthy’s brother James. Things were made more difficult by a …
News: The Temperance Movement announce spring European Tour
London-based blues rockers The Temperance Movement are off on tour. Nothing new there, they played over a hundred gigs last year, and have already built a reputation for their live show here in e UK especially. This time though, the boys are off to peddle their considerable wares around the concert Halls of Europe first, …
New: Reverend And The Makers anounce new album Thirty Two, plus tour dates
Reverend And The Makers, one of the more commercially successful bands to come out of Sheffield, release their fourth album ‘Thirty Two’ via Cooking Vinyl Records on 24th of February. The follow up to 2012’s ‘@ReverendMakers’, for ‘Thirty Two’ the band have had a bit of a guiding hand from with Youth (Primal Scream, Depeche …
News: Lloyd Cole and The Leopards announce tour
This year marks 30 years since Lloyd Cole and The Commotions released their debut album, ‘Rattlesnakes’. Name checking Norman Mailer, Eva Marie Saint, and Simone De Beauvoir it oozed style, and provided a defining moment in the indie folk/rock scene prevalent at the time. The Commotions went on to release two further albums before they …
News: Surrey rock outfit Arcane Roots Spring European and UK Tour news
Oh, we’re getting a shiver of excitement about Surrey’s new rock heroes Arcane Roots. Not just because they’ve announced a whole host of new tour dates across both the UK and Europe, but because they’re in serious danger of exploding into being one of the biggest rock bands in the country. Their album, Blood & …
Track: Wave Pictures release new single Missoula, plus Jan/Feb tour dates
I have this pair of trainers (or sneakers for our American readers) the I’ve had them for years. The reason I can’t bear to let them go, is that firstly I love the style of them, they’re comfortable and they’ve never let me down. Because I associate them with so many memories, I can’t ever …
Watch: Coves premiere video for ‘Cast A Shadow’, announce a handful of UK dates
They’ve provided support for Echo & The Bunnymen, had their cover version of Chris Isaac’s ‘Wicked Game’ adopted by the BBC , been re-mixed by top psych band Toy, received critical acclaim and support from Radio 1, 6 Music and XFM, and all within 18 months of forming. Warwickshire duo, Coves are certainly making all …
News: Punk/New Wave Legends The Rezillos announce eight date UK tour; all the info, here.
Punk/New Wave legends The Rezillos, who came to fame with the 1978 top 20 hit, ‘Top of the Pops‘ have announced an eight gig tour of the UK. The Sex Pistols had just about hung up their boots, most punk bands were fronted by angry young youths spitting and snarling angst and vitriol against, well …
News: Canadian metal band Cauldron announce European Tour
It’s been a while since we heard anything from Canadian heavy/thrash metal trio Cauldron, nothing in fact since their fourth album, 2012’s Tomorrow’s Lost, but that was enough to convince many of their qualities – good old fashioned Heavy Metal, with plenty of pretension and no little amount of theatrics. So, if any persuasion were …