Indie
Live Review: Sprints – Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh 26.10.2021
Sneaky Petes is a gem in Edinburgh. An independent music venue with capacity 100, and, on this particular Tuesday night at the end of October, Dublin’s Sprints are playing. First onstage is local band Volka in support. Rock grunge with three guitarists, a drummer and singer this was a band clearly enjoying themselves. Very impressive for third on the bill and with unconventional riffs, some great chat with …
See: Indie pop supergroup Swansea Sound release new video for Rock N Roll Void
Out on November 19th is the debut – Live at the Rum Puncheon, from indie pop supergroup Swansea Sound, aka Hue Williams alongside Pooh Sticks singing partner Amelia Fletcher (ex-Talulah Gosh, Heavenly). Rob Pursey (also ex-Heavenly) and Ian Button (ex-Death In Vegas) make up the rest of the quartet. Both the band and its equal …
See: Ghost Woman drops some spectral, brooding garage in time for Hallowe’en with ‘Do You’
ALL HALLOWS’ EVE beckons, yer common or garden Hallowe’en: the evening when spirits roam abroad as the year tips towards dark and the good and wary and chaste huddle round the fire. Día de los Muertos, the Mexican Day of the Dead, ain’t far off either – just a day or two away. The timing …
Track: Wrap yourself up warm this autumn with the regal indie-synthpop of Endearments’ ‘Empress’
THE LEAVES are coming down in droves now, so wrapping y’self up against the incipient chill with the Anglophile dreampop stylings of Brooklyn’s Endearments is our self-care tip to keep the darkening year at bay. With an EP, Father Of Wands, due on November 5th, and which four-tracker is happily hunting out next to Brotherhood-era …
Track: Julia Why? Releases the achingly beautiful and powerful track ‘My Grrrl’ and announces launch gig.
Following the release of the gorgeous track ‘Waiting For Time‘ earlier this year, Julia Wylie, under the moniker Julia Why? has just released another achingly beautiful track ‘My Grrrl’ which exudes a dreamy shoegaze fugue – a heady emission of celestial melodies and a wall of guitars and synths. The total package is like a …
Track: Sydney’s Jess Chalker unveils anthemic single ‘Cynical’ on eve of debut album release
Sydney’s Jess Chalker has an extensive musical history behind her as former frontwoman for Sydney-based new-wave duo We Are The Brave, and a host of production and songwriting experience on her considerable CV. One the eve of the release of her debut solo album ‘Hemispheres’ on 5 November 2021, Chalker has unveiled the enchanting single ‘Cynical’. …
Album Review: GB3 – featuring Steve Kilbey (The Church) and Glenn Bennie (Underground Lovers) – unveil ‘Sakura Flower’ and release featured track ‘When I Come Calling’. Full review and pre-order.
There have been rumours circulating all year, but it’s official now: a collaboration between two giants of the Australian indie scene – Steve Kilbey from The Church and Glenn Bennie from the Underground Lovers has resulted in a new album, ‘Sakura Flower’ under the name of Bennie’s side project GB3. ‘Sakura Flower’ has added input …
Live Review: Cud – Leadmill, Sheffield 22.10.2021
Words: Jim F / Pictures: Phil Kidd It’s almost like a select club as we talk to people ‘in the know’ at Sheffield’s Leadmill. Most of us ‘of a certain age’, we compare the first time we saw them (conjecture for me – Huddersfield Uni, Leeds Warehouse or an all-dayer in Bradford, probably about 1989? …
See: Bodega release new video for lead single ‘Doers’, from forthcoming album Broken Equipment
Brooklyn art-punks Bodega have revealed the follow up to their acclaimed debut album Endless Scroll with a new full length, Broken Equipment, out via What’s Your Rupture?, out on March 11th next year. Ahead of it’s release the band have released a new video for lead single track Doers, a track which pokes fun at …
Track: Hatcham Social return with the new / old track ‘If you got down to the woods today (three cheers for our side)’
Our right now digitally via the ever wonderful Fierce Panda label is the new track from London band Hatcham Social, based around brothers Finn and Toby. Well technically, although its new as in its never been released, it was actually recorded more than ten years ago. It will feature on the bands forthcoming career-spanning compilation …