Rock
Not Forgotten: Bill Nelson – ‘Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam’
Guitarist Bill Nelson’s trajectory has been eclectic and multi faceted – singer, guitarist, songwriter, producer, painter, video artist, writer to name but a few. After folding his 70s band ‘Be-Bop Deluxe’, he created ‘Red Noise’ (which the Harvest label insisted on calling ‘Bill Nelson’s Red Noise’) and released the excellent ‘Sound on Sound’ in 1979. When it came …
See: Asking Alexandria release video for Here I Am
Accompanied by black clothing, wide open spaces, and touches of folk horror – Asking Alexandria have a new video. The song has a decent set of riffs, a catchy chorus, pin-sharp drumming, and you can tell it’s going to be a powerful addition to their set. “Here I am” is from their album “The Black”, …
Live Review: Camden Rocks Festival, 4/6/16
Camden Rocks Festival as a whole is much like a live set from a band that is hotly tipped to have the craziest show. It’s chaos; running around, things happening every which way you turn, with the constant feeling you’re missing something because there is just SO much happening. It’s also absolutely excellent, with so …
Not Forgotten: Fuzzy Duck
Sometimes curiosity can get the best of most of us. From the gloriously weird cover art, to the band’s name being a spoonerism, there’s enough here to indicate that there’s something just a bit offbeat going on with Fuzzy Duck’s debut album. Add to this the fact that a bit of research reveals that it …
Track: The Orange Kyte – Inside Out n’ Upside Down
Vancouver’s Stevie Moonboots is on a freak-out mission, via his project The Orange Kyte. It’s an umbrella of shifting collaborators from the Canadian psych scene, which since the start of this year, has released a single a month, this being the latest offering. Orange sunshine fuzz guitars and lysergic hammond organs compliment his Dylan-esque rasp, …
Track: Whyte Lytes – Go get it
Oxfordshire rockers Whyte Lights are preparing to release their debut single, Go Get it. The quartet – Josh Rawle (Bass/Vocals), Alex Rawle (Guitar/Vocals), Jonny Morrison (Guitar) and Jamie Langford (Drums), have been building something of a following, already recieving support from Aaron Phillips Amazing Radio Rock show and playing shows with VANT and High Tyde. …
Track: Apeman Spaceman – ‘Spacecatraz’
Featuring ex members of post-punk band ‘Dogs’, and ‘Razorlight’, this debut single, released on June 10th, is a fuzz-guitared groove/stomp/swagger, that stays in the head after only a couple of listens. If you like your bands to sound (and look) like a band, as opposed to yodelling science-boffins who swap instruments and beards every other …
See: Counting Days reveal new video for Prison of Misery
Taken from their Liberated Sounds album that dropped last August, counting days have just released a video for Prison of Misery. Its a track that begins with this circumspect, simple stripped back riff. You know right from the off though that its skirting the edge of things, and sure enough its soon explodes into life, …
Track: Richard Lomax – Choose your own adventure
Taken from his forthcoming ‘Postcards & Love-letters(From Somewhere You’ve Never Heard Of)’album, Choose your own adventure is the latest in a run of singles from Manchester singer-songwriter Richard Lomax. The album as a whole was written between England and Australia, and the song was inspired by the idea of the ‘third option’, as in the …
See: Summer Scouts reveal new video for Vessels
‘Family life and norms change dramatically after the death of a parent’, say Allentown, PA power poppers Summer Scouts of their track Vessels, before continuing “The home itself takes a drastic shift in its overall aura, a shift that’s slowly continues for years after the death, forever losing its original feeling. While the family’s personalities …