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Track: Dublin post-punks Cruising release new single, Safe Corridor
Out via Tough Love Records on 14th August comes a debut EP from Dublin / Belfast four-piece Cruising. The band, Benni Johnston, Claire Miskimmin, Neil Brogan and Sarah Grimes, formed in 2013 as a side project of members from Girls Names, September Girls, Sea Pinks and Logikparty and are named after William Friedkin’s gay exploitation …
Track: Obie Trice – Good Girls
After a three year gap since his last album, Bottom’s Up, Detroit rapper Obie Trice is back with a new long player, The Hangover, which drops on August 7th through his own Black Market Entertainment label. He’s drafted in the likes of Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter Estelle and G-Unit’s Young Buck, along with production from …
Track: The Retrospectives – Confusion
Sheffield duo The Retrospectives, aka guitarist Tom Galton and bassist Will Stocks, are back with a new single, Confusion, out tomorrow (June 29th). Taking inspiration from the classic rock of Elvis Costello, Tom Petty, Ryan Adams and The Rolling Stones, the band make very definite guitar music, but judging by previous singles Insane and Gold …
Track: The Earlies – Abandon, plus live shows
It doesn’t seem that long since The Earlies released their debut album, These Were the Earlies, an album that fizzled with this indie neo-psych that drew admirers far and wide. This despite the band having a transatlantic split, with JM Lapham and Brandon Carr residing in Texas, whole Christian Madden and Giles Hatton are the …
Track: Cute Cute Death – Pockets
Taken them from the forthcoming mini-album, Vessels, which drops on Monday 10th August comes the new single from Kingston upon Thames five piece, Cute Cute Death. Describing their sound as like a monkey casually humping a lama that borrowed a cheese grater to chew on while they take to the hills on a kawasaki ninja, …
See: Hellions release new video for Nottingham
Hellions just released a new video for their song Nottingham! The Kerrang! Awards 2015 nominees have this time brought some breath taking visuals to accompany their melodic, punky sounds. Upon opening- sound-tracked by a melancholy piano, a 1920s art deco font declares the band name and song title, a theme that is continued throughout the …
Track: Star Horse – Slower Now
We’ve written about Stockholm shoegazers Star Horse before. and so to discover they’re back with a new single, out now through Häxrummet Records on 7” vinyl with B-side ‘Wherever You’ (you can be ordered over at the groups bandcamp) was too good an opportunity to miss. Described by the band as ‘A melancholy ode to …
See: Ghost reveal new video for Cirice
Swedish rockers Ghost have returned with news of a new album, Meliora, out on August 21st via Spinefarm Records. It’s a follow up to their much admired 2013 album INFESTISSUMAM, on which the band worked with producer Nick Rasulinecz, and the subsequent If you have Ghost covers ep, which the band worked on with none …
Track: The Radio Dept. – Occupied
Swedish dream poppers The Radio Dept. returned, rather unexpectedly last September after a four year absence, with a track, Death to Fascism, just in time (or timed perfectly?) for the Swedish elections. Now they’re back for real, with Occupied, taken from their long awaited fourth album, and available now on 12″ limited edition vinyl and …
Track: Slime – Hot Dog, plus album news
Multi instrumentalist Will Archer is preparing to release his debut album, Company, under his Slime nom-de-plume. The Newcastle born multi-instrumentalist and producer recorded the record over two years, it was eventually realised when Archer went to a rabbit warren of a studio in Hackney, where the album was whittled down from the near 400 tracks …