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Track: Albert Hammond Jr – Losing Touch, plus US tour dates
Ahead of his forthcoming solo album Momentary Masters, sometime Stroke Albert Hammond Jr is back with a new song taken from that very record, Losing Touch. Its his third solo album, but first since 2008’s ¿Cómo Te Llama?, and it drops on 31st July via Vagrant/BMG. You’ll recognise that guitar sound at the beginning, less …
New Music: Dreampop quartet I Know Leopard release new single Close My Eyes
I wrote about I Know Leopard, after the release of their debut single, ‘Picture Perfect’ late last year and saw it as a perfect antidote to the Northern Hemisphere’s winter. Now, six months or so later, at my desk at the Backseat Mafia’s antipodean offices in Sydney, it is the Southern Hemisphere’s turn to be …
Track: Clean Cut Kid – Vitamin C
Liverpool four piece Clean Cut Kid, aka Mike Halls, Evelyn Halls, Saul Godman and Ross Higginson, make music best described, at least to Halls, as “Soulful pop ballads, washed in Mersey water”. After spending so much time in the studio that Saul ended up living in it (Mike and Evelyn being on the same road) …
Track: Telegram – Aeons
It seems almost laughable that Telegram only formed just over eighteen months ago, given everything they have achieved since, but so it is that Matt Saunders (vocals/ guitar), Matt Wood (guitar), Oli Paget-Moon (bass) and Jordan Cook (drums) came together – moulding their love of Roxy Music, krautrock and proto-punk into something rather special. Coming …
Track: Vukovi – Boy George, plus tour dates
Taken from their forthcoming debut album, experimental Scottish rockers Vukovi have announced the release of a new track, Boy George due out on August 3rd and available to pre-order right now via iTunes. The band have been making increasing waves on the scene, sharing the stage with the likes of Don Broco, Lower than Atlantis …
Track: The Gorgeous Chans – By the highway
Nottingham six piece the Gorgeous Chans started out riffing on Paul Simons seminal Graceland album, and to an extent it still references their melodic indie music today, with their slightly tropical, brass heavy twists on the run of the mill. The band have just revealed the b-sde to their debut single, out on July 6th. …
See: Against The Current – ‘Talk’ Music Video
Against The Current have just released the music video for ‘Talk’, one of their most popular and discussed songs to date and yeah it’s pretty awesome. ‘Talk’ is a song that allows the band to rock out and give it their all but that’s only half the reason why it’s been so well received, the …
See: Kytes release new video for Inner Cinema
Munich indie poppers Kytes, aka Michael Spieler (Vocals/guitar), Timothy Lush (Drums), Kerim Öke (Guitar/synths) and Thomas Sedlacek (Bass), mark their arrival with a debut single ‘Inner Cinema’, self released on June 15th. Written last summer and recorded earlier in the year, drummer Lush describes it as “an uplifting song, with a driving beat, one that …
See: HOTEI ft. IGGY POP – ‘How The Cookie Crumbles’
Japanese guitarist Hotei is probably best known outside of his home country for creating the song ‘‘Battle Without Honor Or Humanity’ which was used by Tarantino as the main theme for Kill Bill, but in a career spanning over 3 decades, he has worked with some of the all time greats – David Bowie, Andy Mackay …
Tracks: The Strypes – Get Into It, plus Autumn tour dates
After the stir their debut album ‘Snapshot’ caused back in 2013, Irish four piece are back with a new album ‘Little Victories’, out later in the year. Currently in the midst of a 30 date ‘Flat Out’ UK tour, the band have announced the first single to be taken from the album, ‘Get into It’ …