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News: Bowling For Soup Announce 2021 UK Tour With Lit And The Dollyrots
Bowling For Soup are returning to the UK in 2021 with hope of some fun in the sun! The Texan crown princes of pop punk will be jetting back to their home away from home to embark on their first ever UK tour completely focused on seaside towns. The tour will begin in the very grand …
NEWS: The Gun Club’s classic ’82 set ‘Miami’ gets expanded reissue
WHEN Jeffrey Lee Pierce and Brian Tristan first got together to form a band in Los Angeles in 1979, they were both fans; mega-fans. Jeffrey headed up the LA branch of the Blondie fan club; Brian, later better known as Kid Congo Powers, the Ramones fan club. But no one could’ve guessed, for all their …
TRACKS: King Creosote – ‘Susie Mullen’ and ‘Walter de La Mare’ – Domino 7″ follows
IT’S BEEN four long years since we’ve heard from Fife’s Kenny Anderson, better known to us all as King Creosote. By my reckoning, that’s definitely four years too long. Which makes the headlong pop-chant of “Susie Mullen” all the more sweet. It’s got vivacity and motorik like Too Pure-era Stereolab raised on cranachan. Modular synths …
News: Keith Richards And The X-Pensive Winos Live at the Hollywood Palladium
On December 15th, 1988, Keith Richards and his incomparable band, The X-Pensive Winos, played the Hollywood Palladium. It was the penultimate show in a 12 city US tour and a night both band and audience will never forget. Now this legendary concert is available for the first time as a limited edition box set. Across …
NEWS: THE WEDDING PRESENT AND FRIENDS TO RELEASE ALBUM OF BOND THEMES FOR CALM
Come Play With Me proudly presents a collection of 20 Bond themes covered by current and former members of The Wedding Present. This benefit album will be released on Friday 4th December as a double LP (including CD), CD, and digitally. 100% of the profits from its sale will be donated to ‘Campaign Against Living …
TRACK: Erland Cooper shares ‘Holm Sound’ ahead of this weekend’s streamed Barbican show
THE DELICATE and psychogeographic recent canon of Orcadian Erland Cooper has, to partially quote Camper Van Beethoven, “increased by exactly one” today, with the release of the gossamer piano yearn of “Holm Sound” ahead of this Saturday’s Barbican performance. He evokes in sound that stretch of water separating Mainland from Barray, adjacent to the village …
NEWS: BFI to premiere new Delia Derbyshire film – watch the trailer
CAROLINE CATZ’S hotly anticipated new film about the life of Doctor Who theme writer and all-round early electronica genius Delia Derbyshire: The Myths & The Legendary Tapes is to be premiered by the British Film Institute as part of the 2020 London Film Festival in the middle of this month. The conceptual, atmospheric journey into the …
TRACKS: Actress shares two new tracks from his new album for Ninja
IF ONE artist was going to send out a press release for their new record styled on the redacted copy of a government report it is Darren Cunningham, aka Actress. Cryptic, obtuse, secretive and illusive, Cunningham has been the checkpoint of the techno/electronic border crossing for over a decade now. There have been seminal releases …
NEWS: Optic Nerve’s sexy singles club announces v3.0
OPTIC NERVE, the wonderful Preston label that tickles the delighted fancy of any indie kid, has just announced the third edition of its singles club, which in the past has brought us such brilliant (and entirely unexpected in the 21st century) 7″ reissues as The Revolving Paint Dream’s “In The Afternoon” and One Thousand Violins’ …
Premiere: The Double Happiness release single Oysters Can Dream and announce new album and launch gig
Brisbane’s The Double Happiness are premiering their delicious new single ‘Oysters Can Dream’ on Backseat Mafia today, and it is another fine example of the reverb-soaked dreamy soundscapes this band are so excellent at delivering. Twanging, jangling guitars and vocal harmonies evoke sea spray splashes on bright sunny waterfronts and the briny delights of open …