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See: Gothic Tropic release new video for ‘Stronger’
Stronger is the new track from LA-based Gothic Tropic, essential the brainchild of guitarist and songwriter Cecilia Della Peruti, who earns an honest crust away from Gothic tropic as a touring and session player for Charli XCX, BØRNS, and more. Her extraordinary ability has seen sponsorship deals with Fender and the like, and she brings …
See: PINS release video for ‘I’ll Get Mine’
PINS give us another lesson in cool with their arty new video for ‘I’ll Get Mine’. ‘I’ll Get Mine’ is the b-side of the Manchester five-piece’s 2016 Record Store Day Release – ‘Trouble’ – and is another slice of scuzz-filled indie complete with addictive riff and swirling synths. Faith Vern’s vocals sound appropriately detached when …
See: Lola Colt release video for Moonlight Mixing
Lola Colt have taken a slight diversion from the high paths and deep valleys of the psychedelic desert we are used to, and found themselves holed up in sugar sweet 60’s dancehall for latest release ‘Moonlight Mixing’. Roll back the carpet , and hit the floor… For those of you thirsting for more of a psyched …
See: Weaves reveal video for Tick
Toronto-based Weaves’ new video for “Tick,” directed by Benjamin Dabu, should come with a trigger warning for anyone going through a midlife crisis or anyone whose dad is acting a bit stupidly right now. Canadian comedian, podcaster, and obvious good sport Chris Locke amusingly portrays a man of a certain age whose own midlife crisis …
See: The Drifting Classroom release video for Doo What, announce UK dates
Newly signed to the label, Skinny Dog, set up by Elbow’s Guy Garvey and Mark Potter alongside Pete Jobson of I am Kloot come The Drifting Classroom. Made up of Marc Sunderland (guitar & vocals), Richard Jones (keyboards), Allan Falcon (drums & percussion), Max Barker (bass) and Simon Morgan (guitar) they formed out of the …
See: Pink Milk release new video for Detroit
Talking about their new song ‘Detroit’, Gothenburg Shoegaze duo Pink Milk say is is “… written to a childhood friend; We were kids trying to be cool, smoking candy, blowing fake smoke in the air, dreaming about freedom.” There’s a splash of that innocence about the track, this wistfulness that pulls at the heartstrings, but …
See: Jupiter Cats release video for A disengagement party
Balaclava clad London alt-rockers Kupiter Cats are preparing for the release of their first album ‘The truant’, out later this month (the 17th, to be accurate) on Foof records, and it’s preceded by a single, A disengagement party, which is out now as a free download. Almost like two songs welded together, it’s joyous, melodic …
See: Everything Everything launches Low Four
Low Four is a new online music platform, studio, streaming live performance, and event space at Manchester’s fabled Old Granada studios. The acoustically impressive space, first built in 1956, had only been renovated once before in 1979. The studios hosted the historic television debuts of artists as wide ranging as the Beatles, Gene Vincent, and the …
See: Wesley Fuller releases new video for Runaway Renee
If you liked Melvista, Wesley Fuller’s singalong, clap along indie rock belter, then it’s not going to take much for you to fall for follow up Runaway Renee, taken from his forthcoming debut EP, due out on the 1965 imprint. Fuller himself explains the ideas behind the song as “The song came about one hot, …
See: Darren Hayman reveals new video for Strethall (Essex), plus UK tour dates
IF you hadn’t heard of former Hefner frontman Darren Haymans new project, Thankful Villages, then jump aboard quickly as Volume one came out last Friday via Rivertones. Writer Arthur Mee coined the phrase Thankful Villages in the 1930s. In his 1936 book Enchanted land he wrote that a Thankful Village was one which had lost …