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NEWS: tickets on sale Friday for rearranged Lanterns on the Lake tour
BELLA UNION’S premiere Geordie shoegazers Lanterns on the Lake, whose spring tour was pulled due to the covid-19 virus, have announced the rearranged dates for February and March 2021. And this has given the band a chance to expand the dates. The band said: “We have upgraded some of the venues that had sold out, …
Droppin’ Knowledge: L.A. Salami Drops New Single – “The Cage”
British recording artist L.A. Salami has shared a new single from his forthcoming album, The Cause of Doubt & A Reason To Have Faith. The song, entitled “The Cage,” addresses inequities in the music industry and in the world beyond, and reflects prescient analysis of the current protests over racism, police brutality and equality now …
News: Giving some back: Drew Daniels releases anarcho punk covers set
COMING just weeks after Thrill Jockey put out his politically charged, drifting, textured set Shall We Go on Sinning So That Grace May Increase?, The Soft Pink Truth – Drew Daniels of sonic mavericks Matmos – has released a companion album; except this set consists entirely of anarcho-punk covers. Whereas Shall We Go on Sinning …
TRACK AND ALBUM NEWS: Erasure – Hey Now (Think I Got A Feeling)
Synth-pop maestros Andy Bell and Vine Clarke – AKA Erasure – return on 21st August 2020 with their eighteenth studio album, ‘The Neon’ on Mute. Ahead of the new album, the duo release single ‘Hey Now (Think I Got A Feeling)’ and if you love that classic Erasure sound (you know the one I mean, …
NEWS: Classic Creedence set gets half-century deluxe treatment
DELUXE vinyl reissue imprint Craft Recordings are marking the half-century of southern swamp rockers Creedence Clearwater Revival’s classic Cosmo’s Factory with a heavyweight vinyl remaster. The album, set for general re-release on August 14th, features such boogie classics as “Long As I Can See The Light”, an 11-minute jam on “I Heard It Through The …
New: Roger Waters to release Us & Them documentary
Out on the 16th of June on Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is a documentary film following the 2017-2018 tour of legendary Pink Floyd founder member, bassist, singer and songwriter, Roger Waters. The film follows Roger on a worldwide tour that took in 156 concerts and had an audience of 2.3 million people. Directed by Sean Evans and …
News: Doom Sessions split with Conan and Deadsmoke coming on Heavy Psych Sounds Records
Leading cult and fuzz rock label Heavy Psych Sounds proudly announce the launch of their ‘Doom Sessions’ split series, featuring bands from the Heavy Psych Sounds roster plus some of the heaviest bands from the international doom scene. Each volume will host two bands, the start of VOL. I will make Italy’s kings of slowness, Deadsmoke, and UK’s heavy riff masters Conan. …
NEWS: Haiku Salut to live stream new film score
DERBYSHIRE post-folk trio Haiku Salut have announced a lockdown live stream of a new, alternative score they have composed for the Studio Ghibli animated classic, Spirited Away. Their new accompaniment will feature edits and reworks of songs from their first three albums and one new piece of music. And they will be hosting two ‘watch …
News: BOB To release ‘You can stop that for a start’ album
80s/90s indie upstarts BOB have announced they are releasing a new album ‘You can stop that for a start’ via Optic Nerve on September 25th. The band, beloved of far too few people during their original existence despite three Peel sessions and the magnificent ‘Convenience’ featuring in the Festive Fifty of 1989. The release is …
Track: Dead Famous People – Goddess of Chill plus album news
Dons Savage, the creative force behind the legendary Dead Famous People, has had an extraordinary but brief career in the eighties – she sang on The Chill’s brilliant and aptly named hit ‘Heavenly Pop Hit’, signed to Flying Nun Records, moved to London from her native New Zealand just after the peak of the Dunedin …