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Track: Requin – ‘Rules That Won’t Be Broken’
Brisbane has always had a reputation for producing quirky ground-breaking indie music – think of The Go-Betweens and The Saints for starters or contemporaries like The Goon Sax and Elder. Requin, newly signed to 4000 Records (a mark of quality right there) is such a band. Their new single ‘Rules That Won’t Be Broken’ is …
Track: Jekyll – The Escapist plus EP News
Blackpool’s finest and one of our perennial favorites, Jekyll have just released a new single ‘The Escapist’ in anticipation of their newly announced EP, ‘The Whispering Gallery’, which will be released on Fierce Panda on 13th March 2020. ‘The Escapist’ continues to augment Jekyll’s clear and distinctive style – epic, vaulting choruses and sharp, incisive guitars underpinned …
News: Lightning Bolt Announce European Tour, Album Reissues
Legendary Providence noise rock duo Lightning Bolt are preparing to tour European festivals this summer and are reissuing their first four albums on Thrill Jockey. European audiences are in for a treat at the band’s shows, which they famously perform in the round and at a deafeningly, sometimes borderline illegally, high decibel level. Lightning Bolt’s …
News: Goldfrapp announce Supernature reissue as tour sells out
There’s something always ok in the world when Goldfrapp are in it, and so the news that Mute / BMG have announced the long-awaited vinyl reissue of Goldfrapp’s third album, Supernature – out on 15 May 2020 is very welcome indeed. The additional news that the new edition of the album will be available on …
News: Kim Gordon announces international headline tour
Kim Gordon has confirmed another first in a four decade career as a creative pioneer in the realms of art, music, literature and fashion: her first ever international headlining solo tour.The NO HOME TOUR follows the autumn 2019 release of the Sonic Youth and Body/Head founding member and literary and visual arts icon’s innovative and critically acclaimed …
Track: African Head Charge – Peace and Happiness, plus Reissue news
African Head Charge, the combination of master percussionist Bongo Iyabinghi Noah and the maverick that is famed UK dub producer Adrian Sherwood, have been the subject of a reissue campaign since 2016. The latest release in the series sees an expanded editions of their 1990 masterpiece ‘Songs of Praise’, and 1993’s ‘In Pursuit Of Shashamane …
Track: The National – Never Tear Us Apart (INXS Cover)
A compilation album of songs to raise money for the impact of the recent cataclysmic fires in Australia – ‘Songs For Australia’ – will be released digitally in March and an undoubted highlight is The National‘s cover of prime Australian export INXS’s sublime ballad ‘Never Tear Us Apart’. It is a brilliant rendition of a …
UTILITY TAPES | HOUSE PARTY x RELEASE SHOW
BMF being based in Sheffield its only right that we shine a spotlight on established and emerging local talent. Not long back we posted a featured on the citys Tye Die Tapes. A label incarnation that ran a decade long. Adam who ran Tie Dye Tapes has the bug again and launches a new manifestation …
News: Björk announces Björk Orchestral tour
After Björk’s most elaborate stage performance to date, ‘Cornucopia’, she announces today that she will embark on a new tour in 2020, ‘Björk Orchestral’. Unlike Cornucopia’s elaborate stage production, Björk orchestral will focus on Björk’s acoustic string arrangements of her works so far. Starting in Moscow on 2nd July before heading to Helsinki, Berlin, Paris, and Cheshire to headline the …
Album Review: Disq – Collector
There is definitely something in the water in Madison, Wisconsin. Personal anecdote: I have a good friend from the area who has introduced me to a few bands in that scene. The Hussy, Dharma Dogs, Coordinated Suicides. He didn’t mention to me, however, Disq and yet, I seem already familiar with the acerbic power-pop the …