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NEWS: Erasure announce dates for 2021
THEY’VE just released their latest, glittering synth opus, The Neon, for Mute; and today Andy Bell and Vince Clarke, aka Erasure, have announced The Neon Tour for next autumn. Andy says: “We’re so excited to be able to – at last – announce dates for The Neon Tour! We’d hoped to have seen you sooner, …
SEE: bdrmm’s ‘Gush’ gets a short film; tour news; album on red vinyl
SONIC CATHEDRAL’S excellent young shoegazers bdrmmm have released a “Gush” as a single today from their debut LP – and there’s a limited red-vinyl pressing of the album available now at selected independents. “Gush” is a rather gorgeous autumnal yearn of a ‘gaze tune, Ryan’s vocals a dreamy call blending with the guitars. And it …
NEWS: Penelope Isles announce dates for 2021; watch the final episode of Penny Isles TV
THE LOVELY, lovely Penelope Isles, who released their debut album Until The Tide Creeps In to acclaim last year, and played more than 100 shows, have announced a string of dates for the new year. They’ve also released the final episode in their Penny Isles TV series, which sees them touring in the US with Wallows. As …
TRACK: Surprise Chef – ‘New Ferrari’: blaxploitation funk outta Melbourne heralds new LP
SURPRISE CHEF are a Melbourne collective cookin’ up a fine spread of secret instrumental grooves and sketches, and they’re laying the table to invite you over for their second outing for Mr Bongo, Daylight Savings. It’s the follow-up to their debut set, All News Is Good News: an album initially privately pressed, the run sold …
SEE: Wax Machine’s ‘Truth’: Brighton deep psych travellers announce tour dates
WAX MACHINE are a name you really ought to scribe on your albums wants list if you like your guitars, pyrotechnic; your spectrum, fully rainbow; your flutes, trilling. They released their debut LP, Earthsong of Silence on Beyond Beyond is Beyond in March, and it swirls with the psych colours and neckerchiefs of a London welcoming Hendrix to …
TRACK: Cabaret Voltaire – ‘Vasto’: first album for 20 years in November
AS UNEXPECTED developments in the world of eerie electronica go, the announcement of a new album for winter 2020 by Sheffield game-changers Cabaret Voltaire has to be up there. And it’s true: with Richard H Kirk the sole remaining member, the Cabs have announced that Mute will be releasing Shadow Of Fear on November 20th. …
NEWS: Doves tease track from ‘The Universal Want’ – as sheet music!
YOU have to admit, it’s pretty much a stroke of genius. Just weeks before the release of Doves’ fifth album, The Universal Want, the Manchester trio has shared the album’s closing track, “Forest House”, but have left it to fans to work out how it sounds – by leaking the sheet music and lyrics. You wanna hear it, they’re saying: …
News: Elvis Costello reveals new album ‘Hey Clockface’ plus releases new single.
The legendary Elvis Costello has confirmed his welcome return to the music scene with the announcement of a new album ‘Hey Clockface’ on 30 October 2020 as he releases a new single ‘We are All Cowards Now’. Of the album itself, Costello says: I wanted the record to be vivid, whether the songs demanded playing …
SEE: Mountain Goats – ‘As Many Candles As Possible’: monochrome prophecies from their second of the year
PRODIGIOUS and fiercely loved East Coaster indie-folk outfit The Mountain Goats have announced their second album of 2020, Getting Into Knives, an album which they describe as “ … perfect … for the millions of us who have spent many idle hours contemplating whether we ought to be honest with ourselves and just get massively …
Michael Schenker To Release New MSG Album In January 2021
Michael Schenker is currently in the final stages of recording a brand new MSG album, which is set to be released on Nuclear Blast on January 8th, 2021. The album title will be “Immortal“, a perfect statement to describe Michael Schenker’s legacy and to celebrate his 50th anniversary as a musician. “It’s going very well. We have a lot of guest musicians, who …