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NEWS: The Telescopes guitarist David Fitzgerald dies

A REALLY sad loss to the world of early Nineties British independent guitar music this evening, as news began to circulate on Facebook that David Fitzgerald, the original guitarist with…

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TRACK: John Paul Keith – ‘How Can You Walk Away’; a love letter to the Memphis sound

MEMPHIS’ John Paul Keith, an artist deeply embedded in the raunch and the blues of his home city, has announced the follow-up to his 2018 album Heart Shaped Shadow; it’ll…

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TRACKS: See the video for Femi Kuti’s ‘Pà Pá Pà’ and hear Made Kuti’s ‘Your Enemy’ ahead of February’s twin albums

AFROBEAT founding father and steely political activist Fela Kuti gifted us a wondrous back catalogue investigating jazz, funk, hiphop, rock, traditional Nigerian musics, so much more, before passing in 1997.…

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SEE: Arlo Parks – ‘Caroline’: extra UK dates for next summer

MAY WE talk of one of the artists to properly keep an eye on in ’21? We may? Excellent. Arlo Parks grew up in South-West London, a self-confessed tomboy, super-sensitive,…

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SEE: CAMERA announce their February album with the feedback motorik of ‘Kartoffelstampf’

NOW ENTERING their second decade as a band, Berlin’s CAMERA are pushing, to borrow the phrase of Ken Kesey, furthur; deeper. They’re poised to release their fifth studio set, Prosthuman,…

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SEE: Juanita Stein – ‘Reckoning’; seven UK dates from May

TORCH-songtress Juanita Stein, who released her third album of rootsy songcraft for Nude, Snapshot, in late October, has released a video for the dark, rousing drama of “Reckoning” and announced…

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SEE: The Underground Youth – ‘A Sorrowful Race’; tenth album in March

BORN in the musical fires of Manchester, currently resident in Berlin, it’s fair to say that there’s a decent dose of proper musical heritage, maybe a little darkness, a willingness…

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NEWS: experimental composer and Cocteaus collaborator Harold Budd reported to have passed, aged 84

SAD NEWS this evening as reports began to circulate across social media that the poet, avant-garde composer and pianist Harold Budd, a progenitor of the modern ambient piano style, has…

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TRACK: A Winged Victory For the Sullen – ‘Desires Are Already Memories’: O’Halloran and Wiltzie return

THAT glorious combination of Stars of the Lid and The Dead Texan’s amniotic drone sustain voyager, Adam Wiltzie, and modern piano composer, Dustin O’Halloran, who ply their seductive trade as…

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TRACK: Ariel Pink – ‘She’s Gone’: garage-punk cover announces next reissue cycle

LA’S hallucinatory pop explorer Ariel Pink is revving up for the next phase of his reissue programme, delving right back to the beginning of Haunted Graffiti days with the third…

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