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News: El-P reissues Fantastic Damage – Out Now via Fat Possum
Iconic rapper and producer El-P, perhaps best known as one half of powerhouse rap duo Run the Jewels, recently announced an extensive reissue campaign of his full solo catalog via Fat Possum Records. Unavailable for nearly a decade, January 2020 marked the digital release of I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead, on streaming services for the …
Droppin’ Knowledge: New Album from Damu The Fudgemunk, Raw Poetic & Jazz Great Archie Shepp
Earl “Damu the Fudgemunk” Davis, musician, producer and impresario of Redefinition Records, has teamed up with frequent partner Raw Poetic and jazz great Archie Sheep for the album, Ocean Bridges. The album, which drops today, is available on the Redefinition Bandcamp page. All tracks on the album were produced by Raw Poetic, who is also …
Track: Self Defense Family – Make Me a Pallet Fire on Your Floor
Following ‘Leeds’, which dropped last month, and ‘Long Island’, which they released earlier this month, prolific Cohoes, New York-based post-punk collective Self Defense Family have unveiled ‘Australia’, the latest in a series of 7″ singles the band have named after their recording locations. The single’s A-side is titled ‘Make Me a Pallet Fire on Your …
Track: Sergeant BuzFuz – Theresa McKee, plus new album news
Sheffield punk-folk stalwarts ‘Sergeant BuzFuz’ are gearing up to release a highly anticipated seventh album ‘Fox Pop’ on July 3rd via their DIY label Blang Records It’s been 5 years since the last Sergeant Buzfuz album, 2015’s ‘Balloons For Thin Linda’. Band leader Joe Murphy has lost both parents, got married, been a victim of a smear campaign (as a whistleblowing …
News: Rush’s Permanent Waves to be reissued to mark its 40th anniversary
On the 29thMay 2020, UMC/Mercury/Anthem label group continues its extensive Rush 40th anniversary album series with a new, imagination-capturing expanded edition of all the magic music that comprises the band’s remarkable 1980 release, Permanent Waves. Permanent Waves, Rush’s seventh studio album, was originally released in January 1980, and its forward-thinking music signalled a new direction for …
TRACK: KATALEPSY release new single, announce new LP.
Russian brutal death metal masters KATALEPSY have streamed their devastating new single ‘Those Who Rot The Souls’, the first glimpse of new LP Terra Mortuus Est, released 31st July via the esteemed Unique Leader Records. Watch the lyric video for ‘Those Who Rot The Souls’ here: The band comment: “…amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin, …
Track: DECREPID – Phobos Descent, plus cover art and tracklist revealed.
British Death metallers DECREPID, have just revealed details of what will be their 3rd album entitled “Endless Sea of Graves”, which will be released on July 7th, 2020 through Xtreem Music on CD format. DECREPID return 5 years after their 2nd album “Osseous Empire” (Xtreem Music, 2015) with a new opus titled “Endless Sea of …
TRACK: DRAEMORA – Premiere Single “Home”
Seattle Progressive Death Metal DRAEMORA Premiere new single “Home” via TheCirclePit. Relatively new to the Seattle metal scene, Draemora is comprised of seasoned musicians who, despite COVID-19 slowing their debut, are ready to show the nation and the world their EP “Awakening” on June 26, 2020, via Ultra Nast Records. The EP, lyrically, is about battling with drugs and alcohol, …
See: Alexisonfire debuts video for Season of the flood
ALEXISONFIRE has just released a fan-fuelled video for ‘Season of the Flood’. The video is notably comprised of footage shot exclusively by AOF concert-goers in Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, and Vancouver. During the band’s January 2020 Western Canadian tour, fans were encouraged to shoot footage of the live performance of ‘Season of the Flood’ from their mobile devices …
News: Kamasi Washington announces score to ‘Becoming’ film.
Kamasi Washington has announced that he has scored Becoming, director Nadia Hallgren and Higher Ground Productions’ documentary profiling First Lady Michelle Obama, which debuted on Netflix today, May 6. The score features new original music Washington—whom Hallgren asked to join the project very early in its development—composed for the film as well as selections from his catalog. Watch a trailer for the film In …