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See: Even As We Speak release poignant video for ‘Leaves’
‘Adelphi’, the new album from Sydney’s magnificent Even As We Speak has been further bolstered by an absolutely beautiful video for the track ‘Leaves’. A golden thread throughout the album is the theme of the transience of life and our own mortality. And yet this is a band that was born in the eighties and …
Track: Garsa releases the wistful track Ghosts
Garsa is essentially the solo work of Martin Garside who is the maestro of low-fi and beautifully expressed indie pop – veering between a delicate folk strum and a subtle electronic bedrock. The new single, ‘Ghosts’ emphatically continues this thread: it is a testament to strong and impassioned song-writing that floats on ethereal melodies. And, …
Track: Possession share lyric video for track ‘Beyond The Grave’ and announce album news.
Legendary 90s US Death/Thrash metal band Possession have published a lyric video for the track ‘Beyond the Grave’, which is taken from their first and only full-length ‘Eternally Haunt, originally released in 1995, and which is now included on ‘Disentombed Manifestations’, a double CD featuring all of the band’s recordings set to be released on …
Droppin’ Knowledge: O’Mega Red Shares New Video & Single – “Master”
Buffalo hip hop artist O’Mega Red has shared a new video for his single “Master.” The artist, producer and arranger, who has collaborated with KRS-One and Donna Summer, serves up a big, booming track that shows off his facile rapping. The single, produced by Panic Beats, features a thumping, beat and an eerie, looped chorus, …
Track: Warpark share new single and video for ‘Slug’
Warpark are a NYC trio who play loud, groovy rock music using the classic drums/bass/guitar setup with a heavy dose of far out sonic textures and punk attitude. Check out “Slug“ The song is an emotional response to the weekend of August 2nd, 2019, when the United States experienced two mass shootings within 17 hours …
Droppin’ Knowledge: There’s A Fervor In The Music – A Profile of the Rap Artist Chimezie
Chimezie, the rapper, first discovered hip hop when he was around eleven years old. The artist, who is also a prolific reviewer of rap albums on YouTube, grew up in a religious family. He heard gospel music around him, both in church and at home. He attended a Baptist church when he was a child, …
SEE: The Dawdler – ‘Lava Lamps’: a study in beautiful acoustic sadness
THE DAWDLER is the low-key musical alias of Tyneside singer-songwriter John Edgar, who describes himself on his Twitter profile as “Ambient pop. Sad.” He’s just signed to London indie Akira Records and by way of marking that partnership has just released a lovely (and admittedly, sad) little tune entitled “Lava Lamps” in tribute to his …
TRACK: The Lost Highway Tapes – ‘Something To Say’: stripped-down funky blues with The Infadels
THE LOST Highway Tapes is the project of a serendipitous encounter for Fabyl Records’ Nick Faber, who was out on a crate-diggin’ exploration of the American South. He was in the south of Florida when he came across a weatherbeaten busker bringin’ the blues on a steel guitar, tapping straight into the main source. He …
Say Psych: Video: Dimorphodons – The Factory
‘The Factory’ is the second single to be taken from visionary multi-instrumentalist, producer and guitar builder Dimorphodons’ transportive, transcendental and wonderfully eccentric debut Searching for Dimorphodons EP set for release 11 September on Hand of Glory. The Factory takes on a languorous, introspective turn compared to its electrifying freakbeat predecessor, debut single ‘Searching for Dimorphodons’ …
TRACK: Surprise Chef – ‘New Ferrari’: blaxploitation funk outta Melbourne heralds new LP
SURPRISE CHEF are a Melbourne collective cookin’ up a fine spread of secret instrumental grooves and sketches, and they’re laying the table to invite you over for their second outing for Mr Bongo, Daylight Savings. It’s the follow-up to their debut set, All News Is Good News: an album initially privately pressed, the run sold …