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Track: Lance Neptune – Circle Rose
If you’re looking for something to drift away to on this tuesday morning, then you’d do a lot worse than check out the new track from Glenardern, Maryland producer Lance Neptune, called Circle Rose. Supposedly inspired by lost lands between here and the heavens, its a follow up to his recent debut EP ‘Animal Eclipse’, …
See: Wesley Fuller releases new video for Runaway Renee
If you liked Melvista, Wesley Fuller’s singalong, clap along indie rock belter, then it’s not going to take much for you to fall for follow up Runaway Renee, taken from his forthcoming debut EP, due out on the 1965 imprint. Fuller himself explains the ideas behind the song as “The song came about one hot, …
See: DBFC release video for Autonomic
New from the Anglo-French electro-pop “club” DBFC (“DBFC is not a band, it’s a club” is part of their manifesto), is the video for new single “Autonomic”. Library footage of vintage electronics, sports, and medical instructional videos timed to a driving beat. Think 808 State soundtracking Fantastic Voyage, 2001 and Open University all at the …
New Music: Rafi Bookstaber – We Can Find a Way
Rafi Bookstaber is part of the US folk/psyche scene, on NY label Woodsist (who have their own festival in Big Sur) and part of the LA P.R. roster Force Field (Ariel Pink). He’s got an album coming out on the first of July – ‘Late Summer’, and this is the first available track. It’s a …
See: God Damn release video for new track, Ghost
Black Country rockers God Damn are back following their rollocking Vultures album from last year, and no prizes for guessing they’re as noisy and pulsating as they ever were. Ghost veers between the singalong and a (very heavy) punk record, at least in attitude. It ebbs and flows, either totally deep or completely franetic, but …
Track: VHS – Wheelchair
“The idea behind ‘Wheelchair’” says Josh Hagerman of Seattle/Reno punks VHS of their newly released track “is kind of uncomfortable territory for me, but it’s my very uninformed take on living in a sick culture, brought on by my fears of sickness, old age, and hospitals. ‘Wheelchair’ is a ‘what’s worse: the drugs or the …
See: Darren Hayman reveals new video for Strethall (Essex), plus UK tour dates
IF you hadn’t heard of former Hefner frontman Darren Haymans new project, Thankful Villages, then jump aboard quickly as Volume one came out last Friday via Rivertones. Writer Arthur Mee coined the phrase Thankful Villages in the 1930s. In his 1936 book Enchanted land he wrote that a Thankful Village was one which had lost …
Track: Psycho Comedy – One
Although they formed less than a year ago, Liverpool Psychedelic five-piece Psycho Comedy are already beginning to make waves, having recently played sets at Liverpool Sound City and festEVOL. Last Friday they released their rebut single ‘One’, produced by Gil Norton, who in the past has worked with the likes of The Pixies and Foo …
Track: Apeman Spaceman – ‘Spacecatraz’
Featuring ex members of post-punk band ‘Dogs’, and ‘Razorlight’, this debut single, released on June 10th, is a fuzz-guitared groove/stomp/swagger, that stays in the head after only a couple of listens. If you like your bands to sound (and look) like a band, as opposed to yodelling science-boffins who swap instruments and beards every other …
See: Jovel releases new emotionally charged video for ‘The Heroine’
Taken from London RnB rapper Jovel’s debut EP The Void, The Heroine (in this case, the spelling hides the dual meaning) is the powerful tale of someone suffering with drug addiction, from the point of view of a close friend, although it turns out to be a comment on society itself. It sounds autobiographical and …