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News: Andy Shauf announces a British and European tour for next year; see the video for the caustic tale, ‘Living Room’

EXPONENT of beautiful baroque pop Andy Shauf has unveiled a 26-date tour of Europe and the UK in support of his excellent 2020 album The Neon Skyline, a lovely addition to…

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See: Conchúr White’s ‘Dreamers’ tackles that small town yearning for another life in rousing indie-folk

NORTHERN IRISH singer-songwriter Conchúr White has today doubled down on his single drop from early March, the lovely late-night tumble of “Vocation Vacation” with the just-add-water-and-stir absolute anthem, “Dreamers”, the…

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Track: Trippers & Askers – ‘Chance’s Wake’: warming, spiritual Americana lays out the path towards an album drawing on the near-dystopian classic, ‘The Parable Of The Sower’

OCTAVIA E. BUTLER was a Californian African-American science fiction author whose 1993 novel, Parable Of The Sower, has rippled out with staying power across culture, with its tale of the…

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See: Craig Fortnam – ‘Ark’: North Sea Radio Orchestra man sets course for a July solo album, two by two

DEEPLY rooted in a leftfield English folk music tradition, composer and singer for North Sea Radio Orchestra and Arch Garrison (whose excellent last album, The Bitter Lay, we reviewed here),…

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News: Steve Kilbey announces tour and double album ‘The Hall of Counterfeits’ with Steve Kilbey & The Winged Heels

The busiest and most creative man in the music industry is at it again. Not that long after releasing the magnificent ‘Jupiter 13’ with Martin Kennedy (see my review here),…

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News: Sydney’s legendary indie giants RATCAT announce 30 year anniversary gig

RATCAT will always have a special place in any indie band’s heart in Australia for the way they muscled their way into the general commercial charts in the early nineties…

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News: The iconic Dark Mofo Festival – Come to the Cross – returns to Hobart from 16–22 June 2021. And there was much rejoicing.

We have been assiduously covering the glorious Dark Mofo Festival in the deepest south of the Southern Hemisphere almost since inception – a record blighted by the festival’s necessary cancellation…

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News: Erasure to release ‘The Neon Remixed’ to end July – watch the lyric video for a new track, ‘Secrets’; British and European dates announced for the autumn

STRIDING across the synthpop world for 36 years now in a career absolutely without parallel, Vince Clarke and Andy Bell are back with a remixes take on last year’s album,…

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See: Brisbane’s iconic The Goon Sax unveil video for track ‘In The Stone’ and announce new album ‘Mirrors II’ and Australian/UK tour

Steeped in the legendary vibes of Brisbane’s proud and influential indie history, The Goon Sax are exemplary standard bearers for the new generation. They have an arch sensibility, a fey…

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See: The monochrome patterning for Chris Liebing’s ‘Whispers And Wires’ (feat. Ladan): a drop of dancefloor abandon heralds a winter album

FRANKFURT techno scene founding father Chris Liebing has announced that he’ll be releasing his first album in more than three years for Mute this November, and has garlanded that announcement…

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