A Beginners Guide to Sparks
Sparks aren’t just any old pop band. Formed by brothers Ron and Russell Mael, the former child models were just too weird for the macho chest-beating alpha male loving American…
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Album Review : Bill Callahan’s ‘Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest’
Bill Callahan is one of America’s best modern songwriters. Like contemporaries Will Oldham, Damien Jurado, Phil Elverum, and the late Vic Chesnutt, Callahan paints pictures of worlds of long ago…
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Track: The Golden Dregs – Nobody Ever Got Rich (By Making People Sad)
Every now and again you hear a track that just instantly knocks you out. Nobody Ever Got Rich (By Making People Sad), by The Golden Dregs, is one such song.…
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See: Bonniesongs reveals new video for Ice Cream
Bonnie Stewart under her moniker Bonniesongs has signed to Small Pond Records, who will release her debut album Energetic Mind, due out on September 6th. Of the song she says…
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Track: Night Moves – Recollections
Taken from their forthcoming ‘Can you really find me’, out on June 28th via Domino Records, Night Moves have released a new track, Recollections. It’s a dramatic slice of pop…
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See: Larkins release video for new single Sugar Sweet
Manchester quartet Larkins have released their new single ‘Sugar Sweet’ via Good Solider Records. The bands frontman Josh Noble says of the track “‘Sugar Sweet’ was always about a moment.…
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Classic Compilation: Various Artists – I’m Your Fan
The compilation album consisting of multiple acts recording a variety of songs penned by a single artist by way of tribute resulted in a series of releases which can be…
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See: Dude York reveal new video for Box
We’re beginning to fall in love with Seattle pop punks Dude York, ahead of their album ‘Falling’ out via Hardly Art on July 26th. Vocalist Peter Richards says the song…
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Track: The Dolly Mops – Where the undead go
Oxford band The Dolly Mops DIY-indie has this unshined, almost scruffiness about it, harking back to those halcyon 80s days when this sort of thing (musically and aesthetically speaking) first…
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See: Ocean Alley release new video for Infinity
Sydney indie rockers Ocean Alley have released a new single ‘Infinity’, a follow up to their infectious previous single ‘Stained Glass’. Describing the track, the band say “It’s a more…
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