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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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SEE: Osees’ roarin’ live take on ‘Gelatinous Cube’; Dwyer’s boys announce live stream

OSEES – the band who Marc Riley called the “best live band in the world”, and he was so on the money – have released footage of a live take…

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SEE: The Departure Lounge – ‘Mercury In Retrograde’: indie prodigals return on Michael Head’s label

SEVENTEEN long years away; but you can’t keep a decent indie songsmith gone forever. You may well recall the graceful indie of the Departure Lounge; they released two sweet and…

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NEWS: Cory Hanson announces second solo LP; see the country-psych grace of ‘Paper Fog’

CORY HANSON, singer-guitarist with LA psych seducers Wand, has today unveiled the video for “Paper Fog”, a very first preview of what’s to come from his second extra-curricular outing, Pale…

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NEWS: The Orb announce live stream date and remixes album – hear David Harrow’s rerub of ‘Haze’

SEMINAL techno groovesters and occasional pranksters of legend The Orb have a brace of excellently exciting news announcements for all you space cadets out there. Firstly, they’re gonna play their…

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NEWS: M. Ward announces Billie Holiday covers album; hear ‘For Heaven’s Sake’

YOUR humble scribe has loved Portland’s M. Ward since right back in the days of The Transfiguration of St Vincent – his beautiful 2003 album full of his mellifluous voice,…

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