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PREMIERE: JR Samuels – ‘Doomer’: fine porchside guitar soli outta Philly
JR SAMUELS has been involved in the indie and underground scenes of the North-Eastern United States for the better half of a decade now. While resident in Ithaca in New York’s Finger Lakes back in 2015, he tickled the six strings in fine lofi outfit Izzy True and also steered the good ship Sweet Baby …
TRACK: Ceremonial Bloodbath announce debut album – hear ‘Primitive’
VANCOUVER-based, horrendous death metal deformity Ceremonial Bloodbath have announced their debut album, The Tides Of Blood. The Tides Of Blood is a long-awaited album of dark death metal and of complete sonic torment. With its members coming from established Vancouver bands, Ceremonial Bloodbath is an unholy coalition, blurring the sum of its influences into a sonic …
SEE: Tune-Yards’ ‘nowhere, man’: brilliantly freakish stop-motion and a rousing groove
MERRILL GARBUS and Nate Brenner’s excellent, genre-busting, rousing Tune-Yards have released a brilliantly freakish stop-motion animation for their new track, “nowhere, man”. It’s bright, groovy, offbeat, spacious, eccentrically paced, passionately sung: in short, everything you need a Tune-Yards’ tune to be. And that accompanying video … Merrill and Nate are caught giving it the Chaplin …
Track: Oliver Coates releases new track, ‘Honey’, from forthcoming album
TO CALL Oliver Coates a cellist tells you nothing at all. Oliver Coates is a musician whose work connects the circuits at the edge of dance and classical worlds. It’s not crossover, it’s not fusion, it’s experimental, rewiring sounds in a dangerous and delectable way (ask Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood) … and yes, he …
SEE: Lou Hayter – ‘My Baby Just Cares For Me’: sophisticated electropop for Skint
YOU MAY know Lou Hayter better for her work with London electro collective New Young Pony Club before they contracted into acronym; but get people to shuffle up on the elegant, intelligent electropop sofa inside your brain, because it’s gonna be so rude of you not to offer Lou a seat once you wrap your …
See: The Finalists release video for ‘Ignore All The Hate (On Your Telephone)’
The simple, shimmering and reflective tone of the delightful single ‘Ignore All The Hate (On Your Telephone)’ from Sydney band The Finalists (premiered by Backseat Mafia last week) is now beautifully matched by a laid back, black and white video treatment showcasing the band, all shadowy and enigmatic: The old black and white movie footage …
SEE: Steve Hackett releases Hammersmith live set – watch a track
FORMER Genesis axeman Steve Hackett has released a live recording from his 2019 UK tour, entitled Selling England By The Pound & Spectral Mornings: Live at Hammersmith. The album came out last Friday, September 25th. Steve Hackett joined Genesis at the beginning of 1971 and was part of the classic prog-era line-up which also included …