indie rock
See: Feeder release new video for Youth, plus new album announcement
Feeder have released new single ‘Youth’. The new track from the iconic rock band is Feeder at it’s best. Massive crunchy guitars, sing along chorus and soaring melodies. It’s festival material in spades and sure to continue their top 10 album run since 2016’s ‘All Bright Electric’ and the 2017 ‘Best Of’. This …
See: Watercolours release new video for ‘Habits’
Bristol-based indie/rock outfit Watercolours have released their latest single ‘Habits’, a cover of Tove Lo. With high praise from BBC Introducing, including a live session on air, the band are gaining traction ahead of their debut EP, slated for release this summer. The trio is currently on a spring tour, including a date supporting Marillion. Sitting …
See: Sebadoh reveal video for Sunshine plus tour dates.
Sebadoh, the once lo-fi side project of Dinosaur Jr. bass player Lou Barlow, are to be on our stereos/streaming from our mobile devices (delete as appropriate) once again. Act Surprised looks to make up for the near six-year absence since the group last released music (2013’s Defend Yourself) with the latest single from the album, “sunshine“, released this …
Track: The Futureheads – Jekyll, plus UK tour dates
Sunderland indie rock quartet The Futureheads have revealed ‘Jekyll’, the lead single from their sixth studio album which drops on August 30th. Describing the track as, “a monstrous, preposterous riff for monstrous preposterous times,” Barry Hyde says ‘Jekyll’ is, “a violent song about my childhood disgust at the grinning, jeering faces of certain fellow primary school students …
See: The Waterboys reveal new video for ‘Where the Action Is’
Taken from their new album of the same name, The Waterboys have released new visuals for ‘Where the action is’, which drops via Cooking Vinyl on May 24th. A near cover of Robert Parker’s 1960 mod / northern soul classic ‘Let’s go Baby’, Mike Scott has added new lyrics to bring the track right up …
Track: The Keys – Black and White
NEW SINGLE FROM THE KEYS – BLACK AND WHITE Over four Albums, Eps and countless singles the KEYS have become a presence on the Welsh musical landscape. The quality of the band’s music, touches on the wide eyed wonder and boundless possibilities of the sixties pop song, West Coast harmonies, Motown backbeat and the aggression …
Track: The Cosmics – Eyes
Birmingham scuzz/garage rock upstarts The Cosmics have heralded the release of their debut vinyl EP, due out on June 13th, with a single, Eyes. Think that sort of echoey hollow 60s sounding production, over this track that buzzes between swathes of buzzsaw, shoegaze guitars and these eerie rockabilly riffs. Over the top its got a …
See: Mark Lanegan Band release new video for Stitch it up, plus new album and UK dates
Out on October 18th is Mark Lanegan’s new album, Someone’s Knocking, via Heavenly Recordings. From it the band have just released a new video for the first single ‘Stictch it up’. Of the video Lanegan says: “I had a blast making this video. We had some friends over for dinner and Joe Cardamone met Donal …
EP: Kúlu – Quiescence
Celebration Records are about to release the debut EP from Danish band Kúlu, titled Quienscence. The band are not complete newcomers though, having their names littered through the great and the good of Danish indie rock – Asger Techau (Asger Techau, Kashmir), Daniel Buchwald (Arbirk, Deerborn, Danger of Men), Dennis Winterskov (Ave, Deerborn) og Søren …
Live Review: Idle Ross, Plug, Sheffield (03/11/18)
It’s a messy night at Sheffield’s Plug venue, being a Saturday post football affair. The place is packed with slightly rowdy lads and slightly more demure lasses looking for a good time. Headlining is The View’s Kyle Falconer and although this reviewer didn’t stay for that part of the evening, it seemed as if he …