Rough Trade
Track: Gengahr Release Cover Of Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Love’
Following on from the bands Maida Vale session for Annie Mac on BBC Radio 1, Gengahr have released their cover version of Kendrick Lamar’s track ‘ Love’. Frontman Felix explains, “This week we would have been on our way to play Glastonbury festival for the third time. It’s home to some amazing memories for us as …
Album : Starcrawler – Starcrawler
Exploding out of Rough Trade Records is the debut album from Starcrawler. A four piece from LA formed when vocalist Arrow De Wilde met guitarist Henri Cash in 2015 (and then met up with rhythm section Austin Smith and Tim Franco). Not content with releasing the catchiest song ever written about Ants, the band have …
Album Review: Sleaford Mods – English Tapas
Nobody wants to be the new Joe Strummer, or Ian Curtis or Henry Rollins anymore, they all wanna be Gary Barlow. An endless stream of delusional chumps, born to sing, who just want to play stadiums every weekend (even Queen didn’t play stadiums every weekend). Play your cards right and you could be just like …
Track: British Sea Power – Bad Bohemian, plus new album news
It’s been more than three years since we last heard from the magnificent British Sea Power and the wait is over: they have announced a new album entitled “Let the Dancers Inherit the Party” due for release on 31 March 2017 and, in anticipation, they have released a new song with video called “Bad Bohemian”. …
Track: Alabama punk/psych trio \\GT// release new single ’Something’s Wrong With My Mind’
Punk / Rock / Psychedelic, Birmingham, Alabama 3 piece \GT// stoke the fires of anticipation for the release of their debut album, ‘Beats Misplaced’, with lead single, ‘Something’s Wrong With My Mind’. Due for UK release on July 31, via Communicating Vessels & Rough Trade, “the eight track LP is a rock ’n’ roll thrill ride, …
Not Forgotten: Bob – Leave the Straight Life Behind Reissue, plus interview
It might be unjustified, but I’ve always North London indie band BOB were in debt to me. I’d discovered them, as I did most things back then (then being the cusp of the 1990’s) by listening to John Peel, and there, shoehorned in between experimental electronica and dub reggae (probably) was this gorgeous, uplifting, glistening …
Album Review: British Sea Power – Machineries of Joy track by track
Have British Sea Power really been around a decade? It doesn’t seem that since, shortly after the release of their second album, Open Season I saw them in London, as support for the much missed (in my house anyway) Electric Soft Parade. They wore odd costumes, paraded around the stage on each-others shoulders, made a …