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Track: The Mother Hips examine a soured, bruised love in the riffin’ roots rock of ‘Clay Mask Clown’
WITH the first recorded cover version of their entire roots-rockin’ career, their cover of Anne Murray’s “I Don’t Want To Drive You Away”, just fading in the dust of the rearview mirror; but the street light glow of their eleventh album, Glowing Lantern, and a run of dates Stateside just cusping the horizon, The Mother …
See: Table Scraps come firing back with ‘Threads’ ahead of a post-apocalyptic September set
BRUM’S garage-psych-doom power trio Table Scraps have, like the rest of us, been busy frying their heads and kicking anxious heels indoors for like: doesn’t it feel like forever now? But they’ve also been busy with the guitar, bass and drums and things, because the lockdown league is one you can play your way out …
News: New label Carrie launches with the Stevie Nicks elegance of Soft Focus’s ‘Easy For You’
MANCHESTER events site GigList is branching out from promoting music into giving it a specific platform of its own with the launch of a sister label, Carrie: an imprint that aims to elevate and celebrate female musicians, producers, and female-presenting voices. And Carrie is launching this midsummer morning with a first track from Yorkshire’s Soft …
See: Novelty Island invites you to his Mersey archipelago for the baroque piano pop of ‘Listen’
NOVELTY ISLAND, much like Coral Island but not so much Hilbre Island, though that’s weird in its own way, is part of the mythical archipelago of offshore Liverpudlian islands of the musical mind. Castaway under a solitary palm on this particular shore, with a whole Bond-villain musical laboratory accessible through a hidden hatch, is the …
News: George Harrison’s classic solo set ‘All Things Must Pass’ gets a suite of 50th anniversary editions; hear the previously unreleased ‘Run Of The Mill (Take 36)’
UNIVERSALLY regarded, without too much contention from the Lennon and McCartney camps, as the best Beatles’ solo album, George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass, home to such classics as “My Sweet Lord” and “Isn’t It A Pity”, as covered so beautifully by Galaxie 500, is to receive a whole series of deluxe expansions to mark …
See: Birds of Maya – ‘Please Come In’: Philadelphia’s returning fuzz-stoner prodigals return with a down ‘n’ dirty invitation
BIRDS OF MAYA have become one of those legendary lost power trios, so much more than the sum of their parts; superfuzzed, raw, ready to kick out the primal jamz, deliciously low-slung. I mean, really of course, that should read: had become, since they back with us, boy. Followers of the rock music at its …
Track: Kill The Ideal – Save The World
UK rockers Kill The Ideal are set to release their brand new single ‘Save The World’ on Friday 8th January. The track features Swedish singer and Normandie Frontman ‘Philip Strand’ and is taken from their highly anticipated upcoming EP ‘Against The World’ which will be released on 5th February 2021. “As a band we went …
See: Lowrider – Red River
Sweden’s stoner rock masters Lowrider unveil the first ever video taken from their widely-acclaimed new album ‘Refractions’ released last year via Blues Funeral Recordings. The band comments: “Let’s face it, it’s been a weird, long, hard year for everyone. When we were gearing up to put out Refractions after working on it pretty much for 7 years …
Track: Mechanical – Fluorescent Black
Croatian rock duo Mechanical, have shared their first single – Fluorescent Black Fluorescent Black is a thunderous riff built rock track that sounds way bigger than a duo should. Addictive rhythms and vocal lines merge into a drawn out chorus that only highlights the hypnotic qualities of that guitar riff. The drums clatter and roll …
Track: King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard – Intrasport
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, have just released two albums, K.G. and Live In San Francisco ’16 via Caroline. Along with the news the band have also shared a video for new single – ‘Intrasport’. ‘Intrasport’ is the latest track to be taken from their 10-track album K.G. released on KGLW via Caroline and their sixteenth since forming in 2010. Available digitally today, the …