indie news
Track: The Go! Team – The Only Thing New is U Finding Out About it, plus summer tour dates
The Go! Team have shared “The Only Thing New Is U Finding Out About It”, a brand new single following on from their acclaimed new album SEMICIRCLE (out now on Memphis Industries). Band leader Ian Parton explains the influences behind the upbeat and mostly instrumental track: “The Only Thing New Is U Finding Out About …
Track: Vital Idles – A Premise, plus album news and tour dates
For a conglomerate of art outsiders and aesthetes, Vital Idles are primitive, whimsically brutal. Sculpting a skeleton from a body already lean, there’s a thrilling minimalism that runs through every beat and strum, a sparseness that feeds Jessica Higgins’s surreal, oblique vocal delivery all the nourishment it needs. Along with the announcement of their debut …
News: Miles Kane announces 16 date May-July UK tour
Known for his exhilarating live shows, Miles Kane is back where he belongs, on the road playing 16 unmissable headline shows this summer including two shows at The Moth Club May 28th and 29th. ‘It’s been too long since I’ve been on stage” Miles says. ‘I cannot wait to get up and perform a high energy set with a couple of new bangers thrown in! …
News: The Goon Sax announce signing to Wichita Recordings / European tour dates
Wichita Recordings are delighted to announce the signing of Australian band The Goon Sax. The teen trio marry sublime indiepop with brilliantly human and brutally honest vignettes of adolescent angst delivered with personality, charm and heart-wrenching wonder. They will be heading to Europe for shows at the end of May, including dates supporting Frankie Cosmos, …
News: MUSE, QOTSA, FRANZ FERDINAND and JUSTICE among acts set to play Pa’l Norte Festival 2018
The sixth edition of Pa’l Norte, taking place at the Fundidora Park in Monterrey, Mexico on Fri April 20th & Sat April 21st, hosts over 75 artists crossing all genres and styles. Headed up this year by the likes of Muse, Zoé, Richard Ashcroft, Franz Ferdinand, Queens of The Stone Age, Bunbury and Justice, the festival welcomes tens …
News: Liz Phair announces Girly-Sound to Guyville: The 25th Anniversary box-set, via Matador, plus US dates
2018 marks the 25th anniversary of Liz Phair’s landmark album Exile in Guyville. On May 4th, Matador Records will release Girly-Sound To Guyville: The 25th Anniversary Box Set. This release is an extensive, limited edition 7-LP or 3-CD box set to celebrate the anniversary of her classic album. The box set contains the first official …
News: Elvis Costello and the Imposters announce ten UK & Ireland dates this Summer
Following his acclaimed DeTour solo tours of 2015 and 2016, Elvis Costello returns with The Imposters for 10 unmissable UK & Ireland Dates this summer. Joined by backing vocalists Kitten Kuroi and Briana Lee, Elvis Costello and The Imposters (drummer Pete Thomas, keyboardist Steve Nieve and bassist Davey Faragher) will be performing songs from their incomparable back catalogue. With the release of …
News: Cabbage announce ‘Nihilistic Glamour Shots’ art exhibition
Cabbage have announced a ‘Nihilistic Glamour Shots’ Art Exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery on Tuesday April 3rd. The exhibition will feature paintings, sculptures, and installations inspired by Cabbage’s debut album ‘Nihilistic Glamour Shots’, plus live performance art from Kallum Nolan and a stripped back live performance by the band. Dear the internet and all those …
Track: Cut Worms – Don’t want to say goodbye, plus new album news
Born with a knack for conjuring fine images and warm sounds with a curious underbelly, Midwestern-bred, New York-based Max Clarke will release Hollow Ground, his debut album as Cut Worms, on May 4th via Jagjaguwar. In conjunction with today’s announcement, Clarke is presenting lead single, ‘Don’t Want To Say Good-bye,’ and an accompanying animated lyric …
News: Steve Kilbey (The Church) and Amanda Kramer (Psychedelic Furs) Announce US Tour as duo
Steve Kilbey, enigmatic singer and bassist for one of Australia’s greatest exports, The Church, has announced a tour of the US with keyboardist from the legendary The Psychedelic Furs, Amanda Kramer. Taking place in April, this tour precedes both full bands playing at the Robert Smith-curated Meltdown Festival. Many of the venues are very small …