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NEWS: Crime in Stereo lead Amityville Music Hall benefit compilation with first new music in over a decade

In February, the Long Island Emo show promoters collective released The AMH Comp, seeking to raise funds for the Amityville Music Hall, which remains closed due to its intimate capacity…

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Album: Amigo The Devil – Born Against

Inspired by storytellers such as Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and Fiona Apple. Amigo The Devil is the pseudonym of Danny Kiranos, known for his deep, challenging and emotive yet often…

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See: School of X – ‘Away’: MØ’s drummer sets sail on an more wistful course left of centre

IF YOUR particular thing is international pop then you may have come across the Danish popster MØ, who hit no.1 on the UK charts in collaboration with Major Lazer and…

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Premiere: Ted Barnes feat. Kristin McClement – ‘Metal Man (Red Snapper Rework)’: a noir jazz reversion full of double bass goodness

WE SWOONED for “Metal Man”, a dusky tale of yearning from former Clayhill quiet songwriting genius Ted Barnes featuring the vocal talents of Brighton folkie Kristin McClement a month back…

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See: The lyric video for the flute-punk rush of TEKE::TEKE’s ‘Barbara’

WE LOVE them, you know; TEKE::TEKE, the Montrealais-Japanese septet who formed initially for a one-off tribute show to Japanese king of the surf guitar Takeshi Terauchi, and who have since delighted…

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Visions du Réel Review: The Bubble

Largely thanks to an unusually long period of peace and decades of medical and scientific advancements, most, if not all, of the Western world has rapidly aging populations. Whilst standards…

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Track: Larsen release the thundering single ‘Eating Me Alive’ and announce southern tour of Australia

With a thundering, scything rhythm and vocals infused with a whiskey-soaked gravitas, Adelaide’s Larsen‘s new single ‘Eating Me Alive’ is a refreshing blast of melodic grunge, distinguished by a cutting…

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Track: Holy Holy construct shimmering sonic architecture in new single ‘How You Been’

Melbourne duo Holy Holy have an infinite capacity to deliver sweeping melodic tunes that are layered, nuanced and euphoric (see our review of their 2017 album ‘Pain’). Their new single…

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See: The video for the swirling freakbeat of Michael Robert Murphy’s ‘Puzzles’: Liverpool psych excellence sings us into spring

IT’S SO undeniably the Mersey sound; the new single from Michael Robert Murphy, erstwhile singer with Liverpool’s ace acid/folk-rock chemists The Wicked Whispers, comes swirling into spring with his new…

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Track: Minneriket Shares The Stark And Beautiful Track – Hjemlengsel

Vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Stein Akslen new project Minneriket draws on influences as various as punk, goth and classical with the intensity of the early Norwegian black metal, to create deeply moving and intresting pieces…

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NEWS: Crime in Stereo lead Amityville Music Hall benefit compilation with first new music in over a decade

Album: Amigo The Devil – Born Against

See: School of X – ‘Away’: MØ’s drummer sets sail on an more wistful course left of centre

Premiere: Ted Barnes feat. Kristin McClement – ‘Metal Man (Red Snapper Rework)’: a noir jazz reversion full of double bass goodness

See: The lyric video for the flute-punk rush of TEKE::TEKE’s ‘Barbara’

Visions du Réel Review: The Bubble

Track: Larsen release the thundering single ‘Eating Me Alive’ and announce southern tour of Australia

Track: Holy Holy construct shimmering sonic architecture in new single ‘How You Been’

See: The video for the swirling freakbeat of Michael Robert Murphy’s ‘Puzzles’: Liverpool psych excellence sings us into spring

Track: Minneriket Shares The Stark And Beautiful Track – Hjemlengsel