Indie
Track: Salad – Under the Wrapping Paper
90’s Indie band Salad return with Under The Wrapping Paper the first single from their long awaited new studio album, The Salad Way, set for release on August 30th. Salad stood out from the Brit Pop Scene with a loud quiet loud ethic coupled with the sultry vocals of Marijne van der Vlugt on anthems …
Live: Best Kept Secret Festival, NETHERLANDS – 31 May – 2 June 2019
The Best Kept Secret festival in Hilvarenbeek is an absolute pearler, and believe me I’ve been to a few. From the life-affirming, (Glastonbury in the ’80s) to the life-threatening, (Treworgy Tree Fayre ’89 – two dead, two hundred arrested and a dead sheep in the water supply). Constructed around a lake in a forest, the …
Track: Graham Day & The Gaolers – Just a Little / I’m not the only one
December saw the return, after an eight year lay off, for Graham Day & The Gaolers, when they performed at the Lexington in Islington as part of the Damaged Goods labels 30 year celebrations. It marked a rare trip to the UK for drummer Dan Eletxro and so they decamped to the studio and recorded …
See: The Bambi Kills reveal new video for Sweet Love
The Bambi Kills are an independent sister duo from Melbourne Australia, no strangers to music Vanessa was the singer of Grunge trio ‘Valentiine’ and Elena is one half of Garage Punk’s ‘Mannequin Death Squad’ both signed to UK independent label Integrity Records. With The Bambi Kills both sisters take a more stripped back approach creating …
Track: Diesel Park West – Suki / Scared of Time
Growing up as a bored teenager, I was always slightly disappointed that (from the little I knew) only Shawaddywaddy came from the city of my birth, Leicester. Oh, and Englebert Humperdink, who my Mum claimed she once saw in a cafe. That was until I was watching the Chart Show, and suddenly these leather-trousered, Rickenbacker-toting …
See: Adam Green reveals new video for Freeze My Love
Adam Green has announced his new album, Engine of Paradise, will be released on September 6th via 30th Century Records and will be accompanied by his first graphic novel, exploring the same themes as the upcoming album, it’s a psychedelic war epic called “War and Paradise” set in the colorful universe of his film “Adam …
Track: Mark Lanegan Band – Playing Nero
Following on from Stick It Up, which we fell for previously, the Mark Lanegan Band have released a new track, Playing Nero, in the run up to the released of the band Somebody’s Knocking in October. It’s Lanegan at his introspective best, his lived in voice offering up a rather melancholy tale. As he says “Sietse …
News: Primal Scream announce major UK and Ireland tour
The thing about Primal Scream is you never know where they might go next. When I first saw them, they hadn’t long released Sonic Flower Groove, but 4 years later they would be at the centre of indie dance, and then industrial, electronic, blues, indie rock. INvesting no recently released compilation ‘Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll …
News: The Dandy Warhols announce 25th Anniversary Tour Downunder
Legendary if not slightly wild and mercurial, psych-pop funsters, The Dandy Warhols, have announced a tour of Australia to celebrate their 25th anniversary. Live, the Dandies can always be relied on to produce wild, exuberant shows and they have an extraordinarily good back catalog to explore, with gems such as Bohemian Like You, Every Day …
See: Swim Deep reveal new video for To Feel Good
Birmingham’s Swim Deep have returned now as a five piece, with the additions of ex-Childhood drummer Tomas Tomaski, and guitarist Robbie Wood, and have a new album, Emerald Classics, out on October 4th via Cooking Vinyl. From it they’ve released track, album opener To Feel Good, which also features Margate’s Social Singing Choir. It’s an …