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News: GANGgajang set to headline Nimbin Roots Festival in October 2024

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EP Review: Liverpool Genre-Bending Quartet Bonk! Shine On ‘The Act Of Doing It’ EP

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News: Bulgarian Neo-Soul Newcomer Nia Unveils Debut Single ‘111’

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Swedish band Katatonia annouce news of a new live album – Dead air due 13th November via Peaceville Records. The album will see Katatonia performing an extensive and majestic set of fan favourites plus the live premiere of 3 songs from City Burials, captured during their May 2020 lockdown session Formed in 1991 by Jonas Renkse …

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ANNIE, the Norwegian singer-songwriter and DJ who soo should’ve had the whole world supplicant on the back of the brilliant “Chewing Gum” back in the day, is all set to release a new album, Dark Hearts, on October 16th – her first album for a decade. Today, she’s dropped the darkly romantic swoon of “Corridors …

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BRONSON, the epic, bass-shakin’ progressive house project of Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight, of ODESZA, and producer Tom Stell of Golden Features, has announced a series of three remix EPs as an exciting and exploratory coda to their self-titled debut album for Ninja Tune. The trio of rerubs will feature names such as Riton, HAAi, TSHA, Patrick Topping, Prospa, Krystal Klear and …

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Spear of Destiny have recreated and re-imagined the now classic 1985 top 20 hit, WorldService. With Kirk never being happy with the sounds and mix on the mid 80s original, this is an altogether different affair. Massive drums, guitars and voice coupled with wonderful keyboard sounds and real soulful brass take these amazing sounds to …

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Garage Rock Revivalists Fuzztones Celebrate Their 40 Year Anniversary With A Heartfelt Love Letter To Their Home City On New Album! The city of New York has been the epicenter of American music ever since Duke Ellington told composer Billy Strayhorn to take the “A” train from Brooklyn to Harlem in 1940. Sinatra, The Dolls, …

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The tracks on Lisa Caruso‘s new album ‘In Feelings’ provide a gloriously impassioned tableaux for emotion and pain: honestly expressed and rendered with a theatrical flourish and a hint of troubled glamour. Caruso recorded parts of the album back in 2018 in London with producer Ben Fletcher (Sarah Blasko and Marina and the Diamonds) before …

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Tangerine Dream are one of the true pioneers of electronic and ambient music, and the albums they recorded for Virgin Records between 1980 and 1983 remain classics of the genre.   Tangerine Dream’s classic recordings for Virgin made between 1980 and 1983 are to be released in Purple Twilight – The Virgin recordings 1980 – …

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“SEEING Shapes’ is the first single taken from Forever, the new album by Belgian indie rockers Teen Creeps, set for release on January 22nd, 2021 on [PIAS] Recordings.  An ode to 90s’ fuzz-drenched bands such as Dinosaur Jr., Superchunk and Sonic Youth, the trio are sure to tick all the right buttons for those nostalgia …

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WELL, there’s a proper getting together of headz, lads. This is gonna be fun, no doubt about that. Nottingham’s garage-psychesters Little Barrie have decided to get some infused-sugarcube groove on in the studio and lay down an album with none other than Heliocentrics’ guru Malcolm Catto. Electric music for the mind and body, for sure. …

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Brisbane’s dynamic Apparitions are premiering their buzzing new single ‘The Sailor Orates’ here at Backseat Mafia. With a guest vocal from Luke Henery from one of Australia’s foremost post-punk bands, Violent Soho, this is a rough-hewn diamond of a track: low-fi, sincere and with a rumble that pulsates and resonates. ‘The Sailor Orates’ is filled …

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