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News: The classic albums ‘Submarine Bells’ and ‘Soft Bomb’ by The Chills are now re-issued through Flying Nun Records

It’s no secret that I am a huge fan of the New Zealand indie music scene ever since the heady days of the eighties, with the Dunedin music scene, spearheaded by the…

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SEE: New Bums – ‘Tuned To Graffiti’: insouciant, folksy beauty trails for March album

NEW BUMS is the freewheelin’ two-hander of two very fine songwriters in their own right: Ben Chasny, aka psychotropic voyaging genius Six Organs of Admittance; and Donovan Quinn, formerly of…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Farmer Dave Scher & The Wizards Of The West – ‘Farmer Dave Scher & The Wizards Of The West’

Dave Scher & The Wizards Of The West is like a finely reduced sauce; it packs an awful lot of psychedelic flavour and fun into a fat half-hour. Afrobeat, surf rock, funk, straight psych, country psych, jazz, shoegaze, are all seep through a lovely record with three of four moments of proper excellence and a lot of red-eyed, 1am lava lamp big-grinned fun besides. It's good to see him back.

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Blu-Ray Review: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

Given the rather troubling rise of the far right and a resurgence in support for views espoused by Benito Mussolini, in modern Italy, the country is once again facing a…

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Track: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets release new single, Pukebox

The latest offering from their upcoming fourth album, the Porn Crumpets’ concoct a barnstorming, guitar-heavy implosion with new single Pukebox. At just over 3 minutes, Pukebox has a similarly relentless…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Jim Ghedi – ‘In The Furrows Of Common Place’: a bold, proud album of working class folk

In The Furrows Of Common Place is a bold and proud album of working class folk. It bears witness with an unflinching melodious anger - it's the first essential album of 2021

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SEE: Tape Runs Out – ‘Hospital’: sheer indiepop brilliance on Austerity

AUSTERITY RECORDS down in Brighton is one of those grassroots labels with a nose for coming excellence – doing, to paraphrase the Creation compilation – god’s work. And boy oh…

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Meet: Irish songstress Liv Monaghan releases her nod to vintage Paris with ‘Chez Serge’

Lara Eidi , January 17, 2021 Irish born , internationally travelled songstress Liv Monaghan is an artist we identify with . Like her biggest inspiration, Joni MItchell, she set off…

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See: Julien Baker shares video for new single Hardline taken from new album

Julien Baker has shared a new taste of her forthcoming album Little Oblivions by way of a new single ‘Hardline’. Little Oblivions will be released on February 26 via Matador Records. Regarding the…

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SEE: Swansea Sound – ‘I Sold My Soul On eBay’: railing against the royalty rate with pop concept

INDIEPOP with the most resonant of political points for an industry beleaguered by the pandemic and one in which anyway, let’s be frank, artists are being screwed all ends by…

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News: The classic albums ‘Submarine Bells’ and ‘Soft Bomb’ by The Chills are now re-issued through Flying Nun Records

SEE: New Bums – ‘Tuned To Graffiti’: insouciant, folksy beauty trails for March album

ALBUM REVIEW: Farmer Dave Scher & The Wizards Of The West – ‘Farmer Dave Scher & The Wizards Of The West’

Blu-Ray Review: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

Track: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets release new single, Pukebox

ALBUM REVIEW: Jim Ghedi – ‘In The Furrows Of Common Place’: a bold, proud album of working class folk

SEE: Tape Runs Out – ‘Hospital’: sheer indiepop brilliance on Austerity

Meet: Irish songstress Liv Monaghan releases her nod to vintage Paris with ‘Chez Serge’

See: Julien Baker shares video for new single Hardline taken from new album

SEE: Swansea Sound – ‘I Sold My Soul On eBay’: railing against the royalty rate with pop concept