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TRACK: Ariel Pink – ‘She’s Gone’: garage-punk cover announces next reissue cycle

LA’S hallucinatory pop explorer Ariel Pink is revving up for the next phase of his reissue programme, delving right back to the beginning of Haunted Graffiti days with the third…

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Track: Octopus Montage – A Shortcut (To The Unconscious Mind)

Octopus Montage unleash a beast of a new single – ‘A Shortcut (To The Unconscious Mind) taken from their forthcoming album ‘How To Live And How To Lose’ Written based…

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TRACK: Leif Vollebekk – ‘Long Blue Light’: beautiful alt.folk from Montreal

CANADA’S Leif Vollebekk is another excellent alt.folk singer-songwriter in a country that seems, these past few years, to produce them just for fun. Andy Shauf, Patrick Watson, Yves Jarvis, Sing…

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Track: Karima Francis – Carelessness Causes Fire

Written earlier in 2020 and recorded remotely between Karima’s base in London and producer Tim Carr’s studio in LA, “Carelessness Causes Fire” is out everywhere now. Forming a songwriting pearl…

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News: The National’s Early Catalogue Remastered And Reissued due 26 February 2021

Twenty years on from the release of their self-titled debut album, The National are reissuing it along with 2003’s follow-up Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers and 2004’s Cherry Tree EP on 26 February 2021.…

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EP Review: Tim Burgess – Ascent of the Ascended plus tour news

It has been amazing year for Tim Burgess – a rare species that has bloomed under the claustrophobia of COVID and provided an endless source of entertainment and education through…

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Track: Einstürzende Neubauten return with haunting new track ‘La Guillotine de Magritte’ and news of more gigs in 2021

It’s been a busy and productive year for the eternally brilliant Einstürzende Neubauten, with a slew of singles from their shining album ‘Alles in Allem’ released during the darkest periods…

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Premiere: Courtney Jacobs releases new single Let Me

In little over six months, Houston singer-songwriter Courtney Jacobs is fast gaining a foothold with her jazz tinged pop, and so we’re delighted to be able to to premiere her…

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Say Psych: Track: PEEL – Memory Loop

PEEL hail from Sydney and make inter-dimensional guitar music; they create sonic architecture built from elements of shoegaze, post-punk and psychedelia and have come out of the gates with all…

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Say Psych: Track: Night Beats – That’s All You Got

The Texas-born outfit Night Beats are today sharing a new single titled ‘That’s All You Got’, a collaboration between founding member Danny Lee Blackwell and Robert Levon Been of Black…

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TRACK: Ariel Pink – ‘She’s Gone’: garage-punk cover announces next reissue cycle

Track: Octopus Montage – A Shortcut (To The Unconscious Mind)

TRACK: Leif Vollebekk – ‘Long Blue Light’: beautiful alt.folk from Montreal

Track: Karima Francis – Carelessness Causes Fire

News: The National’s Early Catalogue Remastered And Reissued due 26 February 2021

EP Review: Tim Burgess – Ascent of the Ascended plus tour news

Track: Einstürzende Neubauten return with haunting new track ‘La Guillotine de Magritte’ and news of more gigs in 2021

Premiere: Courtney Jacobs releases new single Let Me

Say Psych: Track: PEEL – Memory Loop

Say Psych: Track: Night Beats – That’s All You Got