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SEE: Cathal Coughlan – ‘Song Of Co-Aklan’: Cork’s devilish genius is once more to the breach
CATHAL COUGHLAN, the devilish genius behind such acts as Microdisney and The Fatima Mansions, has always been a joyous thorn in the side of Irish alternative music; erudite, scathing, never afraid to tread his own, rockier path. He’s been away a decade – how did that happen? – yep, the last missive from Cathal-land was …
SEE: Arctic Monkeys release live track video for ‘Arabella’ in aid of War Child UK
IN PROMOTION of the release of Arctic Monkeys – Live At The Royal Albert Hall on December 4th, the band have revealed the video for AM’s “Arabella”. The proceeds raised from Arctic Monkeys – Live At The Royal Albert Hall will go to War Child UK to help fill what could be up to a £2 million deficit the …
SEE: David Lewis Gedge – ‘All The Time In The World’ – Weddoes-related Bond covers album!
WEDDING PRESENT frontman David Gedge has dropped a video for his cover of “We Have All The Time In The World”, which crowns the album the Not From Where I’m Standing, a collection of Bond themes and songs covered by current and former members of The Wedding Present. The Wedding Present have never been shy of …
SEE: Generation – ‘Tokyo’: sleaze rock brothers take another glammy bite
TAKING on the all the glorious, skinny, wasted rock’n’roll tradition of the Stooges, the New York Dolls, early Manics, and throwing open a mascara and glam-riffing portal in the centre of their home city, Liverpool, Generation, the brainchild of brothers James and Dean Carne have just dropped their second mint into the fizzy drink of …
Aaron Lee Tasjan – ‘Computer Of Love’; Nashville troubadour’s new album is out in February
NASHVILLE Americana troubadour Aaron Lee Tasjan, who’s been far from idle this year with the release of two digital-only EPs, the two-volume Found Songs, has dropped one final, finely sculpted kiss-off to the year, “Computer Of Love” and accompanying intergalactic visuals – have a peek for yourself. Aaron, who’s collaborated with everyone from Sean Lennon …
SEE: Jack Cheshire – ‘Miradors’: new visuals for a tale of capitalist alienation
JACK CHESHIRE, whose album Fractal Future Plays we were initiated into the mysteries of a few weeks back, has released the video for one of the standout tracks on an excellent set, “Miradors” – come watch. We said of the album just ahead of its late November release: “Imagine, if you will, say, MGMT if …
SEE: Juanita Stein – ‘Reckoning’; seven UK dates from May
TORCH-songtress Juanita Stein, who released her third album of rootsy songcraft for Nude, Snapshot, in late October, has released a video for the dark, rousing drama of “Reckoning” and announced a seven-date tour for May ’21. The video, embedded down below, follows Juanita on a bike ride through southern France. It was self-filmed in the …
SEE: The Underground Youth – ‘A Sorrowful Race’; tenth album in March
BORN in the musical fires of Manchester, currently resident in Berlin, it’s fair to say that there’s a decent dose of proper musical heritage, maybe a little darkness, a willingness to party and explore the edges, in the DNA of The Underground Youth. The band, led by Craig Dyer and also comprised of his wife …
SEE: Cabbage – ‘Get Outta My Brain’: wired weird gets the visuals
BETTER late than never, as the old adage goes. Mossley’s art-guitar bandits Cabbage came for us back in the heady, high summer days of August with “Get Outta My Brain”, a song about the duality of running away or getting out of your head to run away internally. It’s a tune of which we said …
SEE: Oya Paya – ‘Focus’: a slacker-pop winter warmer
IF YOU like a bit of bouncy slacker rock, all loose, chantalong lyrics primed for some Converse-meets-dancefloor action, with guitars scrappy and all about the downstroke and fun, then wrap that listening gear around the latest video from Liverpool’s loose-limbed Oya Paya, “Focus”. With just days to go in 2020, the three-piece – drawling singer-guitarist …